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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-0001-020-1432 MG21-397

Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky John J. McAfee (Jessamine County, KY, merchant) N00003421 1836? Categories: People

Jessamine County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Merchant in Nicholasville, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Legal: James H. Lowry (Jessamine County, Kentucky, justice of the peace and farmer) Legal: James G. Bruce (Jessamine County, Kentucky, justice of the peace) Legal: John S. Welch (farmer, jessamine county) Legal: Edward Cosby (Madison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Nathaniel Welch (Nicholasville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William H. Daniel (Jessamine County, Kentucky, resident, prov govt) Legal: William McDowell (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Henry J. Campbell (Nicholasville, Kentucky, judge) Legal: Jessamine Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, Nicholasville, p. 125. William McDowell (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer) N00003441 1830? Categories: People

Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Henrietta McDowell. Father of Lettie McDowell. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1850. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John J. McAfee (Jessamine County, KY, merchant) Legal: Jessamine Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 52B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 75. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 299B. Henry J. Campbell (Nicholasville, Kentucky, judge) N00003440 1825? Categories: People

Jessamine County, Kentucky, judge. Kentucky native. Presiding judge of Jessamine County Court in Nicholasville, Kentucky, in 1860 and 1861.

Relationships Economic: Jessamine County Court Legal: Jessamine Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine, Nicholasville, p. 118. KYR-0001-020-1531. Nicholasville, Kentucky P00000278 Categories: Places

Seat of Jessamine County, Kentucky.

37.8806, -84.573 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 214. “Nicholasville,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 682. "Nicholasville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed December 11, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). 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. Jessamine Circuit Court O00000408 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): M. T. Lowry and Stephen Noland.

Relationships Legal: John J. McAfee (Jessamine County, KY, merchant) Legal: Samuel Smith Mizner (Jessamine County, KY, physician) Legal: Woodson Dickerson (Nicholasville, Kentucky, druggist) Legal: William R. Welch (Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer, attornery, and notary public) Legal: P. N. Smith (Jessamine County) Legal: S. Noland (Commonwealth attorney) Legal: Melvin T. Lowry (Jessamine County, Kentucky, county and circuit court clerk) Legal: J. C. Wilmore (Madison County, Kentucky,resident) Legal: John B. Cook (Nicholasville, Kentucky, grocery keeper) Legal: William H. Daniel (Jessamine County, Kentucky, resident, prov govt) Legal: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney) Legal: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Legal: James H. McCampbell (Shelby County, Kentucky, Justice of the Peace, constable, 2nd lieut & capt 6th Ky Inf (USA)) Legal: Irvine Masters (Jessamine County)

“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. Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky 1861-09-17 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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The undersigned States that he has heard what he thinks and regard as all the legitimate evidences & circumstances attendant on the case of the Commonwealth of Ky. agt John J. McAfee for now pending in the Jessamine Circuit Courtfor alledged shooting atWm McDowellwith intent to kill in the town of Nicholasvilleon the 5th day of August 1861 -- & ^in^ his judgement & opinion he considers & regards the Bail of said McAfee of $4000 -- as fined by the examining Court at his trial -- as an excessive & exorbitant Bail -- & he further thinks from evidences & manifestations in the Community both before & Since his said trial & up to the present time-that the personnal appearance of said McAfee in this Community on account of the prejudice & excitement against him would be accompanied with hazard & peril of his life

Nicholasville Ky Septr 17. 1861 --

H, J, Campbell Presiding Judge Jessamine County Court