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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-0001-020-1512 MG22-108

Breckinridge County, Kentucky Elisha Lamasters (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer) N00003182 1815? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy Lamasters. Father of Mary Lamasters, E. M. Lamasters, M. Lamasters, and Nancy Lamasters. Laborer in Hancock County in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Margolyes Tavern

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population/Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock, p. 106. Henry B. Margolyes (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, tavern and stable owner) N00003169 Categories: People

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, tavern owner. Tavern owner in Breckinridge County in 1861.

Relationships Economic: Margolyes Tavern Legal: Breckinridge Circuit Court Economic: James Chancellor (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, laborer) Economic: Talbott Newton (Breckinridge County) Economic: William Hensey (Breckinridge County) Economic: Robert Martin (Hancock County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Economic: James Henry Newman (farmer, breckinridge county) Economic: Elisha Lamasters (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer) Social: E. Fisher (Hancock County, Kentucky)

KYR-0001-020-1502. KYR-0001-020-1503. KYR-0001-020-1504. KYR-0001-020-1505. KYR-0001-020-1506. KYR-0001-020-1507. KYR-0001-020-1508. KYR-0001-020-1509. KYR-0001-020-1510. KYR-0001-020-1512. KYR-0001-020-1513. KYR-0001-020-1514. KYR-0001-020-1516. KYR-0001-020-1544. Edward Pate (Justice of the peace, Breckinridge county) N00003167 Categories: People

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, justice of the peace and deputy clerk. Deputy clerk of the Breckinridge Circuit Court in 1858. Justice of the Peace in Breckinridge County in 1861.

Relationships Legal: Henry B. Margolyes (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, tavern and stable owner) Legal: Thomas Falls (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Gross (laborer, Breckinridge county) Legal: Samuel Rice (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Hensey (Breckinridge County) Legal: Robert Martin (Hancock County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Legal: Elisha Lamasters (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer) Legal: Breckinridge Circuit Court

KYR-0001-020-1502. KYR-0001-020-1544. Breckinridge County, Kentucky P001810 Categories: Places

Seat at Hardinsburg, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7982, -86.4592 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 35. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Breckinridge County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 20, 2020). Cloverport, Kentucky P00003168 Categories: Places

City in Breckinridge County, Kentucky.

37.8334, -86.6328 Ron D. Bryant, "Breckinridge County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 121-22. Bennettsville, Kentucky P00003171 Categories: Places

Unincorporated town in Breckinridge County.

0.0, 0.0 W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 7th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 563. 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. Margolyes Tavern O00003164 Categories: Organizations

Owned by Henry B. Margolyes. Was both a stable and a tavern.

Relationships Economic: Thomas McQuiddey (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: William Gross (laborer, Breckinridge county) Economic: Henry B. Margolyes (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, tavern and stable owner) Economic: Samuel Rice (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: Robert Martin (Hancock County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Economic: James Henry Newman (farmer, breckinridge county) Economic: Edward Pate (Justice of the peace, Breckinridge county)

KYR-0001-020-1502. KYR-0001-020-1503. KYR-0001-020-1504. KYR-0001-020-1506. KYR-0001-020-1507. KYR-0001-020-1508. KYR-0001-020-1509. KYR-0001-020-1510. KYR-0001-020-1511. KYR-0001-020-1512. KYR-0001-020-1513. KYR-0001-020-1514. KYR-0001-020-1516. Breckinridge County, Kentucky 1861-11-23 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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Breckinridge County Kentucky

Elisha Lamasters States that he now lives in the Town of Cloveport and at the time Margolyes kept tavern near Bennetsville Ky he lived in Bennetsville, that was well aquainted with Margolyes, has been at his house very often I have eat with him several times I always found plenty of Good and substantial food for man & beast. I further State that the said Margolyes Kept a good & sufficent stable, and provided in abundance, I verily believe the Tavern was as well kept as any body should require for any country house. I further state that on one occasion the said Margolyes sent a horse to the stable that I had charge of not having Sufficient room for said horse and all the others that had stopped for the night with him, I have seen a sufficintcy of Good beds at said Tavern house, I have also ^seen^ corn & hay at his house and other feed for horses.

Given under my hand this 23rd November 1861

Elisha ^his X mark^ Lamasters

Sworn to before me this 23rd November 1861

Edward Pate J P B C