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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-019-0051 MG5-99

Franklin County, Kentucky George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) N00002995 1808-02-11 1881-01-24 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant, politician, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Gwin. Father of Thomas J. Gwin and Kate L. Gwin. Married to Julia Ann Smith Gwin in Scott County, Kentucky, on October 27, 1853. Merchant in Franklin County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Mayor of Frankfort from 1857 to 1865. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Frankfort in 1860. Justice of the peace in Franklin County from 1861 to 1865. Member of the Frankfort City Council in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Legal: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Political: Franklin County Court Legal: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Grandison W. Owen (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 53B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 236. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 501B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 144A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film 000183225. L.F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky., reprinted edition (Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1975), p. 198. Carl E. Kramer, Capital on the Kentucky: A Two Hundred Year History of Frankfort & Franklin County (Frankfort, KY: Historic Frankfort, Inc., 1986), p. 120. "G W Gwin (1809-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 74517922, accessed May 24, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74517922. KYR-0001-005-0132. KYR-0001-007-0365. KYR-0001-019-0051. KYR-0001-004-0183. Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) N00003353 1787-03-21 1869-06-17 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, soldier and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Maria Garrard Dudley on November 15, 1815. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Light Infantry Regiment as captain from March 29, 1812, to April 28, 1812, and from March 9, 1813, to September 9, 1813. Served in Dudley's Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Militia as major from September 20, 1814, to November 20, 1814. Adjutant general of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from December 10, 1829, to 1851. Farmer in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Member of the Military Board of Kentucky from May 24,1861, to March 15, 1862.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: George Twyman Wood (Hart County, Kentucky, court clerk and politician.) Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard Economic: Western Union Telegraph Company

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 8. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, pp. 2-3. Reports Communicated to Both Branches of the Legislature of Kentucky, (Frankfort: A. G. Hodgers, 1844), 183. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort: W.E Hughes, Public Printer, 1861), 5. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), VII. G. Glenn Clift, Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969), 79. Minnie S. Wilder, Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995), 79, 214, 308. Anna Russell Des Cognets, Governor Garrard of Kentucky: His Descendants and Relatives (Lexington, Ky.: James M. Byrnes, 1898), 87. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 91. Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) N00003389 1824-01-30 1876-01-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and soldier. Kentucky native. Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1844. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Assistant engineer of Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Assistant engineer of Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1847 to 1850. Superintendent of the Lexington and Frankfort Railroad from 1850 to 1872. Superintendent of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad from 1855 to 1872. Commissioner of the Military Board of Kentucky from May 24, 1861, to March 15, 1862.

Relationships Political: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: John R. Pirtle (Louisville, Kentucky, physician and soldier) Military: Military Board of Kentucky Political: Military Board of Kentucky Political: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Political: Mercer County Home Guard

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 4th Ward, p. 47. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), vii. The Centennial of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, vol. II, (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1904), 248, 409. Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, (Covington, Ky: Collins & Co., 1882), 90-91. "Appendix," Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society vol. 9, no. 26 (1911): 33. George W. Cullum, Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy, 3rd ed., vol. 2 (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891), 193. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008972700 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. 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. Franklin County, Kentucky 1861-05-25 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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State of Kentucky Franklin County Sct

I George W Gwin a Justice of the peace for said County do Certify that on this day Genl Peter Dudley came personally before me in my Office and made oath that he would faithfully ^uphold to the best of his ability -- ^ execute the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky passed On the 23d day of May 1861. "A Senate Bill for. the regulation of the Militia And to provide for the Arming of the State" Said Dudley being one of the Commissioners appointed under, and to Carry out the objects of Said act --

Given under my hand this 25th day of May 1861. Geo W. Gwin J. P. F. C

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Franklin County Sct.

Samuel Gill this day appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the peace for said County and took the oath mentioned in the within Certificate as administered to Genl Peter Dudly Witness my hand this 31st. day of May 1861

G. W. Gwin J. P.