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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0401 MG18-122

Logan County, Kentucky Matthew M. Clark (Logan County, KY, merchant) N00021102 1804? Categories: People

Logan County, Kentucky, merchant. Virginia native. Married to Rebecca C. Clark. Merchant in Logan County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident of Logan County in 1860. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Logan County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Daniel Morton (Logan County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk.) Legal: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 19B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 418. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 377A. William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District) N00005301 1816-02-04 Categories: People

Simpson County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Jones and Mary Young Jones. Married to Mary P. Lewis Jones on May 10, 1838. Father of Virgil A. Jones, Elenora I. Jones, Eugenia A. Jones, and John N. T. Jones. Married to Mary A. Mann Jones on April 14, 1846. Father of James S. Jones, Harriet B. Jones, Elizabeth Jones, and William O. Jones. Studied law under Franklin Gorin in Barren County, Kentucky. Attorney in Barren County in 1837. Attorney in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Simpson County in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 4th Judicial District in Simpson County from 1858 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Ellis Harper (Captain, Harper's Partisan Rangers) Legal: George W. Dalton (Simpson County, farmer and sheriff) Legal: William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (Seventeenth governor of the State of Tennessee, newspaper editor, and politician.) Legal: Simpson Circuit Court Social: Samuel F. Johnson (Leavenworth Count, Kansas, druggist and soldier) Social: Arden Richard McClanahan (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fourth Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Warren Circuit Court Political: Allen Circuit Court Political: George W. Dalton (Simpson County, farmer and sheriff) Legal: James M. Vance (Hart County, Kentucky, farmer. Fugitive from justice.) Legal: Alexander McHatton (Hart County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier) Legal: Richard James Oglesby (Fourteenth governor of the State of Illinois, soldier, attorney, and politician.) Legal: Hart Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 7B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 4. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Simpson County, p. 133. The Biographical Record of Logan County, Illinois (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1901), 227-28. Daniel Morton (Logan County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk.) N00021101 1830? Categories: People

Logan County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Marmaduke B. Morton, Sr., and Nancy Caldwell Morton. Married to Susan E. M. Booker Morton in Logan County, Kentucky, on October 1, 1851. Deputy clerk in Logan County in 1850. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Logan County in 1850. Circuit court clerk in Logan County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Logan County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville, p. 66A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville, p. 339. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 485. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 386A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville, p. 510A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Logan County Marriages, Film 002134965. John M. Gresham Company, ed., Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State (Chicago: Donohue & Hennerberry, 1896), 63-4. Elijah Embree Hoss, David Morton: A Biography (Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1916), 1-20. Marmaduke Beckwith "Buck" Morton, Jr. (Logan County, Kentucky, clerk.) N00021616 1840-08-16 1913-02-20 Categories: People

Logan County, Kentucky, clerk and deputy sheriff. Kentucky native. Son of William I. Morton and Clarissa McCleland Morton. Attended Bethel College in Logan County, Kentucky. Merchant clerk in Logan County in 1860. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Logan County in 1860. Deputy clerk of the Logan Circuit Court in 1861. Deputy sheriff in Logan County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Matthew M. Clark (Logan County, KY, merchant) Legal: Daniel Morton (Logan County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk.) Legal: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, p. 423. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District 1, pp. 377B-378A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Logan County, KY, February 1864, p. 224. "'Buck' Morton Dead," The News-Democrat (Russellville, KY), February 28, 1913, p. 1. John M. Gresham Company, ed., Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men and Families of the State (Chicago: Donohue & Hennerberry, 1896), 63-4. KYR-0001-020-0401. Logan Circuit Court O00000419 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Asher W. Graham. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): W. B. Jones. Clerk(s): Daniel Morton, J. A. L. Boyer, and J. E. Wright.

Relationships Legal: Nelson [Unknown] (Logan County, Kentucky, enslaved man convicted of murder.) Legal: Edmund Ayres (Logan County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) Legal: Thomas Barclay Harrison (Logan County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Jesse Mansfield (Logan County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Marmaduke Beckwith "Buck" Morton, Jr. (Logan County, Kentucky, clerk.) Legal: Matthew M. Clark (Logan County, KY, merchant) Legal: Daniel Morton (Logan County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk.) Legal: William B. Jones (Simpson Co, KY, Commonwealth's Attorney 4th District)

“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. Logan County, Kentucky 1861-01 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Logan Equity & Criminal Court. January Term 1861. The Commonwealth of Kentucky Plaintiff against (3) } Indictment Keeping a Tipling House. M. M. Clark Defendant

This day came the attorney for the Commonwealth, & the defendant appeared & acknowledged himself guilty of the offense charged in the indictment, it is therefore adjudged by the Court that the defendant make his fine to the Commonwealth by the payment of Sixty Dollars, & that he pay the Cost of this prosecution & it is ordered that a Capias pro fine issue therefor.

A Copy -- Attest: Danl Morton Clerk of said Court.

Logan Equity & Criminal Court, January term 1861. The Commonwealth of Kentucky, Plaintiff against (4) } Indictment Keeping a Tipling House M. M. Clark Defendant

This day came the attorney for the Commonwealth & the defendant appeared & acknowledged himself guilty of the offense charged in the indictment, it is therefore adjudged by the Court that the defendant make his fine to the Commonwealth by the payment of Sixty dollars, & that he pay the cost of this prosecution,. & it is ordered that a Capias profine issue therefor,

A Copy Attest M. B. Morton jr D C for Danl Morton Clerk, of Said Court