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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-2061 BR14-250

Cumberland County, Kentucky Jack [Unknown] (Cumberland County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Indicted for arson.) N00018864 Categories: People

Cumberland County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Enslaved in Cumberland County. Indicted for arson in Cumberland Circuit Court.

Relationships Legal: Cumberland Circuit Court

KYR-0001-004-2061. Asa Elliott (Cumberland County, Kentucky, resident, miller, and farmer) N00018867 1832-06-22 1892-12-24 Categories: People

Cumberland County, Kentucky, miller and farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Robert Elliott and Sally Elliott. Married to Nancy Jane Simpson Elliott in Adair County, Kentucky, on January 31, 1854. Father of Owen Elliott, Jalappa Elliot, Robert Elliott, William Elliott, and Richard Elliott. Resident of Cumberland County in 1850. Household owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1850. Miller in Cumberland County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1860. Farmer in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1864.

Relationships Legal: James M. Boles (Cumberland County, Kentucky, merchant, clerk, and postmaster.) Legal: Jack [Unknown] (Cumberland County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Indicted for arson.) Legal: Cumberland Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland, p. 319A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District 1, p. 653. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District 1, p. 364A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Elliott, p. 53B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film 000216815. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Cumberland County, KY, February 1864. "Asa Elliott (1832-1892)," Find A Grave, Memorial 16980277, accessed November 15, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16980277. James M. Boles (Cumberland County, Kentucky, merchant, clerk, and postmaster.) N00018871 1826-04-24 1902-06-30 Categories: People

Cumberland County, Kentucky, merchant, clerk, and postmaster. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah E. Boles. Father of Elizabeth H. Boles, John H. Boles, Elam F. Boles, Adda B. Boles, and Robert B. Boles. Merchant clerk in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1850. Postmaster for Burksville in Cumberland County from December 10, 1851, to November 4, 1853. Merchant and trader in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed Mary Taylor, John Taylor, and Ellen Taylor as servants in Cumberland County in 1860. Clerk of the Cumberland Circuit Court in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Cumberland Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burksville, p. 278B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland Division. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, District 2, p. 575. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow, p. 616A. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Cumberland County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 593. "James M. 'Jim' Boles (1826-1902)," Find A Grave, Memorial 112630402, accessed November 16, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112630402. KYR-0001-004-2061. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Cumberland Circuit Court O00000368 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 6th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860-1861 and the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862-1865. Judge(s): Thomas E. Bramlette and T. T. Alexander*. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Ephraim L. Van Winkle and J. H. C. Sandidge. Clerk(s): Robert C. Logan, E. J. Ellison, and James M. Bowles.

Individuals marked with an asterisk (*) represent judges and commonwealth’s attorneys from the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Relationships Legal: Richard Smith (Cumberland County) Legal: John Henry Clay Sandidge (Cumberland County attorney and 15th District Commonwealth’s Attorney) Legal: Thomas C. Winfrey (Cumberland County attorney) Legal: Squire B. Lewis (Cumberland County) Legal: Martin White (Cumberland County) Legal: John Cloyd (Cumberland County) Legal: James J. Murphy (Cumberland County) Legal: John R. Page (Cumberland County) Legal: Asa H. Teal (Cumberland County) Legal: M. C. Mayo (Cumberland County) Legal: James E. Frazier (Cumberland County) Legal: William L. Philpott (Cumberland County) Legal: James Presley (Cumberland County) Legal: James P. Garrett (Cumberland County) Legal: John B. Cassady (Metcalfe County, KY, farmer)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Cumberland County, Kentucky Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Kentucky Cumberland Circuit Court The Commonwealth of Ky Plff vs' } Indictment for Arson, Jack a Slave Deft

It appearing that Asa Elliott has been duly Summoned to answer for the forfeiture of the bail Bond executed in this prosecution, and he failing to answer, it is therefore ordered and adjudged by the Court that Plff recover of Said Deft Elliott the Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty dollars and the costs herein expended and Execution may issue &c

I J. M. Boles clerk of the Cumberland circuit court certify that the above is a true copy of a Judgement rendered in Said court at its April Term 1865.

J. M. Boles clk,

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Comwlth Plff v } copy Ind. Asa Elliott