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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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-005-0027 BR7-51 to BR7-52

Mercer County, Kentucky John W. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, resident) N00005978 1840? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married Eliza Robison. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860.

Relationships Political: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer, District 2, p. 315A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 633. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191863, p. 517 Martin B. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and soldier.) N00005979 1837? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and soldier. Kentucky native. Hotel keeper in Mercer County in 1863. Corporal of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from March 5, 1864, to August 17, 1865.

Relationships Legal: John W. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, resident)

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Mercer County, KY, August 1863, p. 10, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 634. William Crasslow (Mercer County) N00005980 Categories: People

Appears in an affidavit by John W. Debaun dated April 28, 1864.

Relationships Social: Wesly Robards (Confederate soldier) Social: John Alexander (Mercer County) Social: John W. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-005-0027. John Alexander (Mercer County) N00005981 Categories: People

Appears in an affidavit by John W. Debaun dated April 28, 1864.

KYR-0001-005-0027. Wesly Robards (Confederate soldier) N00005982 Categories: People

Appears in an affidavit by John W. Debaun dated April 28, 1864.

Relationships Military: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA)

KYR-0001-005-0027. John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) N00004777 1825-06-01 1864-09-04 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer and soldier. Huntsville, Alabama, native. Son of Calvin Morgan and Henrietta Hunt Morgan. Married to Rebecca Bruce Morgan on November 21, 1848. Married to Martha O. Ready Morgan on December 14, 1862. Father of Johnnie Hunt Morgan. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington from 1842 to 1844. Served in the Kentucky Mounted Volunteers as first lieutenant in the U.S.-Mexican War from 1846 to 1847. Member of the Masonic Order at Daviess Lodge #22 in Lexington from 1846 to 1864. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1850. Served in a state militia artillery company in Lexington as captain from 1852 to 1854. Served in the Lexington Rifles of the Kentucky State Guard as captain from 1857 to 1861. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1860. With C. C. Morgan, owned thirty enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Employed one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as colonel and brigadier general from 1861 to 1864. Killed at Greeneville, Tennessee, on September 4, 1864.

Relationships Military: Madison "Matty" Conyers Johnson (Son of George Washington Johnson and Ann Eliza Viley) Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Buffington Island Military: Confederate States Army Military: 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 1, p. 146B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 433. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 452B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, County, Lexington Ward 4, 461B. Find A Grave, "John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864)," Memorial #4433, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4433 (accessed September 6, 2019). James A. Ramage, “Morgan, John Hunt,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), pp. 650-651. James A. Ramage, Rebel Raider: The Life of General John Hunt Morgan (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986).John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 4, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 402. John Glover Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, & col Mercer Co militia) N00002329 1840-04-02 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Andrew G. Kyle and Jane H. Glover Kyle. Educated at Transylvania University and withdrew due to health issues. Studied law in Mercer County in 1860. Graduated from the Law School of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1862. Began law practice in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Judge of the Harrodsburg Police Court in 1864. Served in the Mercer County Militia as a colonel during the Civil War.

Relationships Legal: John W. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Social: Lorenzo Hobbs Noble (Lebanon, Marion Co, Kentucky, attorney & commonwealth's atty) Social: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Social: James Taylor (Mercer County, KY, attorney) Social: William M. Tomlinson (Mercer County, KY, physician and farmer) Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Economic: Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) Economic: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Economic: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 715. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 687-88. KYR-0001-004-0395. Richard Board (Mercer County KY Circuit Court Clerk) N00002356 1827? 1888-02-03 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, court clerk. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Caroline Virginia Thacker Board in Mercer County on August 23, 1859. Father of Richard Board, Jr., and William E. Board. Clerk of the Mercer Circuit Court in Mercer County from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Thomas Jenkins (Duncansville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Economic: Mercer Circuit Court Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 591B Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994049, Mercer County Marriages, p. 7-8. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Mercer County, Kentucky P00000556 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Harrodsburg. Located on the Kentucky River.

Relationships Political: Ephraim J. Polk (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and examiner for Mercer County)

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 25, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. 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). Franklin County, Kentucky P001019 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Frankfort. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Franklin County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 354-56. Harrodsburg, Kentucky P00000555 Categories: Places

Seat of Mercer County, Kentucky.

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Mercer Circuit Court O00000424 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 5th Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge(s): George Kavanaugh and John E. Newman. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Andy Barnett and L. H. Noble. Clerk(s): Benjamin C. Allin and Richard Board.

Relationships Legal: John Murphy (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Richard Board (Mercer County KY Circuit Court Clerk) Legal: John Glover Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, & col Mercer Co militia) Legal: Martin B. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and soldier.) Legal: John W. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Jenkins (Duncansville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John Bishop (Duncansville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Anthony Smith (Cornishville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Leticia Gray (Mercer County) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Legal: Moses D. Hall (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, grocer) Legal: William Daviess (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Robert P. McGrath (Mercer County Merchant) Legal: Sidney S. McFatridge (Mercer County, KY, farmer & sheriff) Legal: John "Isaac" C. Vanarsdall (Mercer County, Kentucky, sheriff. ) Legal: William Payne (Mercer County, merchant and farmer) Legal: George W. Tompkins (Mercer County, sheriff) Legal: Benjamin Casey Allin (Mercer County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Nimrod Harris (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas H. Buckner (Mercer County, KY, planter) Legal: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Charles Westerfield (Mercer County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: J. Harvey Vanderipe (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and grocer) Legal: Charles Catlett (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Holman R. Crow (Jessamine County, Kentucky, carpenter and livery keeper) Legal: Milton Crow (Grundy County, Missouri, saddler) Legal: Eli Crow (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant) Legal: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

“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), 303-08. “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), 301-06. “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), 347-50. 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00005258 1861-10-09 1865-08-17 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Dick Robinson, Garrard County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on October 9, 1861. Reorganized as 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment in March 1864. Mustered out of service on August 17, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel Speed S. Fry, Colonel John T. Croxton, and Colonel Robert M. Kelly.

Relationships Military: John W. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, resident) Military: Frank Lane Wolford (Casey County, Kentucky, attorney and colonel 1st KY cav (USA))

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 628-29. United States Adjutant General’s Office, Official Army Register of The Volunteer Force of The United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65, vol. 4 (Washington, D.C.: 1865), 1248. Mercer County, Kentucky 1864-04-28 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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John W. Debaun Mercer County State of Kentucky } sct Affidavit

John W. Debaun states that Martin B. Debaun now confined in the jail of Franklin County, was indicted at the April term 1862 of the Mercer Circuit Court, in conjunction with one Wm Craslow, for malicious & wilfull Shooting at John Alexander without wounding, and that the said Shooting-affair occurred on the first day of said month & year -- Affiant States that he was present when the Said difficulty arose, and saw it all the facts & circumstances of which are about these; the Said Wm Crasslow and one Wesley Robards got into a heated political discussion arising from the fact that the said Crasslow who was a member of the home guards and the said Robards was a returned rebel Soldier and had before that time belonged to the command of John H. Morgan -- The said disputants progressed in their quarrel until they got into a fist fight, and ^both^ had fallen to the ground in the struggle, when the Said John Alexander urged by his political sympathies for the rebel Soldier ^despite the said Crasslow Robards^ fired on the said Crasslow & struck him in the leg -- At this time Martin B, Debaun, who was a member of the same home-guard company with Crasslow, and who thought that there was a combination & purpose to kill said Crasslow, who was also a brother-in-law of said M. B. Debaun, picked up a pistol which the said Robards had dropped in the fight, & shot at the Said Alexander Without Striking him or any one else -- Affiant States that the Said M, B, Debaun enlisted about two months ago into the Federal Service, and before he was

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confined in jail, and that he now belongs to the 4th Ky mounted infantry -- He says the Statements in the foregoing affidavit are true and the facts were witnessed by this affiant.

John W Debaun

Sworn to before me this 28 day of April, 1864.

John G. Kyle Police Judge of Harrodsburg-

J. G. K. 28 Apr 1864 --

State of Kentucky Mercer County Sct } Affidavit-

Richard Board states that he is the clerk of the Mercer Circuit Court, and that he was present on the first day of April, 1862, when the difficulty & fight occured for which M. B. Debaun was indicted at the April term, 1862, of Said Court- He says he has read the foregoing affidavit of Jno. W. Debaun and that the Statements contained therein are true, and the circumstances as narrated therein were witnessed by this affiant --

Richard Board

Sworn to before me this 28th of April, 1864 --

John G- Kyle P. J. H --

J. G. K. 28 Apr. 1864

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Commonwealth vs } Affidavits M. B. Debaun