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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-0001-020-1435 MG21-400

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. William H. Daniel (Jessamine County, Kentucky, resident, prov govt) N00003436 1829? Categories: People

Jessamine County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of Lucy A. Daniel. Resident in Jessamine County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861.

Relationships Legal: Jessamine Circuit Court Social: John White Cobb (Jessamine County, KY, farmer) Social: Matthew H. Young (Jessamine County, KY, physician) Social: William McDowell (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John J. McAfee (Jessamine County, KY, merchant) Legal: William McDowell (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John J. McAfee (Jessamine County, KY, merchant) 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))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, Nicholasville, p. 145. KYR-0004-033-0001. 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. George T. Keith (Nicholasville, Kentucky, merchant) N00003468 1830? Categories: People

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

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Henry J. Campbell (Nicholasville, Kentucky, judge)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, Nicholasville, p. 123. 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. 1861-09-26 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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I saw McDowel shoot ^at^ Daniel, once and my impression is Twice, before Daniel drew his pistol, saw all the shooting without changing my Posision, was up in the Balconey over the Clerk's Office door, Saw Daniel down (Supposed from injury) when McD-- drew a large Colt's Pistol and was in the act of Striking when McAfee run up within 15 ft of McDowel and Shot at him. confidently believeing that it saved Daniel from a fatal blow,

Geo. T. Keith

sworn to before me by George T. Keith this 26th day of September 1861

H, J, Campbell P, J, J, C, C,