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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-0001-005-0128 BR7-200

Grant County, Kentucky Samuel Anderson (grant co. accused murderer) N00005170 Categories: People

Accused of murdering G.W. Osborn in Grant County, Kentucky in 1865.

Relationships Legal: G. Washington Osborn (Grant County resident) Legal: Grant Circuit Court Legal: W. T. Simmons (Grant County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mathew Burnett (Judge of Grant County Court) Legal: Grant County Court

KYR-0001-005-0043. G. Washington Osborn (Grant County resident) N00005171 1839? 1865 Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, resident. Married to Sarah to E. Dejarnett Osborn on February 26, 1860. Resident in Grant County in 1860.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #001490815, Grant County Marriages, p. 9. John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) N00002277 1829-04-07 1903-12-01 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney. Ohio native. Married to Theresa Frank Scott in Mason County, Kentucky, on September 3, 1857. Married to Sallie F. Chiles Scott in Mason County on November 30, 1859. Father of Nettie Scott. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Attorney in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860. Partner with James Simpson in Simpson & Scott law firm in Frankfort in 1861. Commonwealth's attorney for the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Carroll Circuit Court Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Charles O'Hara (blacksmith, Grant County) Legal: Heman D. Stratton (school teacher, Grant County) Legal: William Tucker (Grant County resident) Legal: G. Washington Osborn (Grant County resident) Legal: Robert F. Coleman (Burlington, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: John Sanders (Posey, Indiana, farmer) Legal: Boone County Court Legal: Boone Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Legal: Jesse Redman (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: John W. Brookover (Huntington, Brown County, Ohio, farmer and soldier.) Legal: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Grant Circuit Court Social: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Social: Winthrop Hartly Hopson (Fayette County, Kentucky, minister. ) Social: [Unknown] Frazier (Mentioned as a judge in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1862.) Social: Emery Whitaker (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: John Calvin Mason (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney, congressman, and soldier.) Social: Robert Milligan (Mercer County, Kentucky, professor and university president. President of Kentucky University) Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: W. T. Moore (Franklin County, Kentucky, minister.) Social: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) Political: Willard Preble Hall (Seventeenth Governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician.) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Familial: Nettie Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: David G. Venable (Frankfort, Kentucky, student and soldier) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 363. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 154A. 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. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1867), 324. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts for the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1868, Legislative Document Series, No. 2 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, Public Printer, 1869), 23. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994048, Mason County Marriages. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281844. "John L. Scott," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), November 13, 1860, p. 2. "New Law Firm at Frankfort--Simpson & Scott," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 8, 1861, p. 3. "Touching Bereavement," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 8, 1866, p. 3. "Attorney John L. Scott Dead," The Morning Herald (Lexington, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 4. "Deaths: John L. Scott," Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 1. L. F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky (Frankfort, KY: Roberts Printing Co., 1912), 149. "Col John Lafayette Scott (1829-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15017815, accessed September 5, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15017815. Jesse Redman (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) N00006127 1841? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Farmer in Grant County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Anderson (grant co. accused murderer) Legal: Grant Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Grant, not stated, p. 73 William Tucker (Grant County resident) N00006128 Categories: People

Witness in an indictment for murder against Samuel Anderson dated October 28, 1865.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Anderson (grant co. accused murderer) Legal: Grant Circuit Court

KYR-0001-005-0128. Heman D. Stratton (school teacher, Grant County) N00006129 1823? Categories: People

Kenton County, Kentucky, schoolteacher. Kentucky native. Married to Susan H. Penick on June 14, 1851. Schoolteacher in Kenton County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Anderson (grant co. accused murderer) Legal: Grant Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Kenton, Ludlow, p. 187; Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000266220, Grant County Marriages, p. unknown. Charles O'Hara (blacksmith, Grant County) N00006130 1827? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, blacksmith. Native of Ireland. Blacksmith in Grant County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Anderson (grant co. accused murderer) Legal: Grant Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Grant, not stated, p. 125. Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) N00006131 1838? Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky, circuit clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Susan V. Dills Jeffers on August 13, 1862. Clerk in Grant County, Kentucky in 1860. Clerk of the Grant Circuit Court in Grant County from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: A. E. Stone (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: William P. Brumback (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas Renfro (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Samuel Anderson (grant co. accused murderer) Legal: Grant Circuit Court Social: Benoni Stewart (Grant County, Kentucky, merchant and master commissioner.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Grant, Williamstown, p. 991. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #001490815, Grant County Marriages, p. 148. “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. Grant County, Kentucky P00000938 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Williamstown.

38.6381, -84.5605 "Grant County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 383. “Williamstown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Grant Circuit Court O00000384 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 8th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall and George C. Drane. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): P. U. Major and John L. Scott. Clerk(s): William Smith and N. H. Jeffers.

Relationships Legal: William Duncan (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John D. Duncan (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Isaac Duncan (Grant County) Legal: Overton P. Billiter (Grant County carpenter) Legal: Thomas A. Franklin (Grant County, KY, farmer, postmaster, & county court clerk) Legal: William P. Brumback (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: William Harrison Rose (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Renfro (Grant County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: A. E. Stone (Owen County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: John Marksberry (Grant County, Kentucky, sheriff) Economic: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Thomas Iliff (Grant County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Political: Thomas A. Franklin (Grant County, KY, farmer, postmaster, & county court clerk) Political: William Smith (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit ct clerk) Political: Mathew Burnett (Judge of Grant County Court) Political: Winston T. Simmons (Grant County, KY, attorney) Legal: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk)

“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. Eighth Judicial District of Kentucky O001027 Categories: Organizations

This Commonwealth of Kentucky judicial district included Trimble, Carroll, Henry, Franklin, Owen, Gallatin, Grant, and Boone Counties. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall (1860-1861) and George C. Drane (1862-1865). Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Patrick U. Major (1860-1861) and John L. Scott (1862-1865).

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, 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, 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. Grant County, Kentucky 1865-10-28 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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Grant Circuit Court The Commonwealth of Kentucky- Plaintiff Against } Indictment for Murder Samuel AndersonDefendant.

The Grand Jury of Grant County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Samuel Anderson of the offense of Murder Committed as follows, viz: The said Samuel Anderson, in the County, Circuit, and state aforesaid, on the 3d day of October 1865, did feloniously, wickedly, corruptly, and with malice aforethought, kill and murder Washington Osborne, by then and there shooting the said Osborne in the body with a gun loaded with powder and a leaden ball or other hard substance, thereby inflicting a mortal and dangerous wound upon the person and body of the said Osborn, from the effects of which wound the said Osborn then and there languished and lingered, and languishing died one day after the infliction of said wound, contrary to the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

John L. Scott Commonwealths attorney for 8th Judicial destrict

Witnesses for Commonwealth.

Jesse Redman. Wm Tucker H. D. Stratton Charles OHara-

Endorsed "Filed Oct. 28th 1865."

A copy att

N. H Jeffers C, G, C, C,

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Reward $300, Grant Co

Commonwealth vs } Indictment for Murder Samuel Anderson

a copy

offered 27th Nov 1865