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Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia John A. Staley (Savannah, Ga) N00002477 1815? Categories: People

Savannah, Georgia, justice of the peace. Georgia native. Married to Jane W. Staley. Father of Frances A. Staley, Alice V. Staley, Lula M. Staley, and Lillie R. Staley. Justice of the peace in Savannah in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Chatham County, Savannah, District 2, p. 147. Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) N00002581 1833-07-03 1862-04-06 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, statesman, and soldier. Frankfort, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Bell Monroe Sr. and Eliza P. Monroe. Married to Elizabeth C. Grier Monroe on November 15, 1859. Father of Robert Grier Monroe. Attended the University of Louisiana in New Orleans, Louisiana. Practiced law in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1849. Household owned three enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Editor of Kentucky Statesman in Lexington in 1856. Mayor of Lexington in 1859. Secretary of state for Kentucky under Beriah Magoffin from August 30, 1859, to October 1, 1861. Owned one enslaved person in Franklin County in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as major from October 1861 to April 1862. Killed in action on April 6, 1862, at the Battle of Shiloh.

Relationships Political: John Milton Johnson, Sr. (Kentucky physician, scientist, writer, and surgeon (CSA)) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James G. Craig (Cincinnati, Ohio) Political: John E. Hamilton (Covington ky atty) Political: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Political: Anthony Claybrook McElroy (Springfield, ky bank cashier) Legal: Julius Rowley Pomeroy (Brooklyn, New York, teacher, commissioner of deeds, and attorney) Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: William Lewis Nugent (Washington County, Mississippi, attorney, commissioner, lieutenant colonel, second lieutenant, captain, and assistant adjutant general (C.S.A.)) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Legal: Charles James Brenham (San Francisco, California, notary public and commissioner of deeds) Political: Perry Wherritt (Harrison County, Kentucky, tanner and county court clerk) Political: Isaac Raney (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: Francis Poe (Sacramento County, California, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Legal: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Legal: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Legal: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Legal: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Legal: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Legal: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 701. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 384-85. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 500B. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J.M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), 548. Ed Porter Thompson, History of the Orphan Brigade, (Louisville: Lewis N. Thompson, 1898), 458-66. "Maj Thomas Bell Monroe (1833-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15725235, accessed December 9, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15725235. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 270. Laurence Connell (Chatham County, Georgia, police officer and magistrate) N00015343 1812? Categories: People

Chatham County, Georgia, police officer and magistrate. Native of Ireland. Married to Mary Connell. Father of Bridget A. Connell, Lawrence J. Connell, Richard C. Connell, Edward Connell. Police officer in Chatham County, Georgia, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Chatham County in 1850. Justice of the peace in Savannah in 1860. Justice of the peace in Savannah in 1861. Magistrate in Savannah in 1863.

Relationships Legal: John A. Staley (Savannah, Ga) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, District 13, p. 228 A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah District 13. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, District 3, p. 366. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Georgia, Chatham County, District 21, p. 127 A. City of Savannah Voter Registers, 1863, Research Library & Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia, Film #0223141. KYR-0001-017-0144. Savannah, Georgia P00002476 Categories: Places

City in Chatham County, Georgia.

32.0835, -81.0998 "Savannah" New Georgia Encyclopedia (Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press), http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/savannah Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. 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). Georgia P001008 Categories: Places

State in southeastern United States. Capital at Milledgeville from 1804 to 1868. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

33.0801, -83.2321 Robert J. Norrell, Louis De Vorsey, and George Hendricks, "Georgia" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Georgia-state) (accessed on June 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Georgia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 9, 2020). Chatham County, Georgia P00015318 Categories: Places

County in southeast Georgia. Seat at Savannah. Located on the Savannah River and the Atlantic Ocean coast.

31.974, -81.0924 USGS: Earth Explorer, "Savannah, Georgia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 12, 2021). _“Savannah,” Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Savannah-Georgia. (accessed August 12, 2021). Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky O00012489 1792-06-01 Categories: Organizations

Records all the acts of the governor and serves as the notary public for the Commonwealth. Secretaries of State: Thomas B. Monroe, Jr. (August 1859-October 1861); Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (October 1861-August 1862); Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (August 1862-September 1863); Ephraim L. Van Winkle (September 1863-May 1866).

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Political: Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Political: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Political: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Political: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Political: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Political: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Political: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Political: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Political: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident) Economic: William S. Dehoney (Franklin County Merchant) Economic: George W. Robb (Franklin County Merchant)

"Executive Services," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, https://www.sos.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). "Secretaries of State," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, http://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/default.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). "Kentucky Secretary of State Time Line," Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky, http://apps.sos.ky.gov/secdesk/sosinfo/sostimeline.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia 1861-03-04 Correspondence 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 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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Savannah Ga. Mar. 4. 1861. Dear Sir,

Enclosed you will find the oath required, & the Secretary's fee of five Dollars,

Yours truly, Jno. A. Staley J. P.

Hon. T. B. Monroe, Jr. Sec'y of State, Frankfort, Ky.

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State of Georgia Chatham County.

Personally came and appeared before me Laurence Connell a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid, Jno. A. Staley J. P. who being duly sworn says that he will, to the best of his knowledge and ability, discharge all the duties required of him as Commissioner for the State of Kentucky in the State of Georgia.

In Witness whereof he hath hereunto affixed his signature, this 4th. day of March, 1861.

Jno. A. Staley J. P.

Sworn to before me Laurence Connell J. P.

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Georgia

Oath Jno. A. Staley Comr. of Deeds

Filed May 1 1861.