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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-0001-020-2023 MG24-28to MG24-29

Nathan Spilman (Franklin County, Kentucky, inmate.) N00017851 1830? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, inmate. Indiana native. Convicted of a felony in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1862. Sentenced to three years imprisonment in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 134B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 325C. Harry Innes Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, sheriff, and lessee of the Kentucky Penitentiary) N00017854 1818-09-06 1891-05-12 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant, sheriff, and lessee of the Kentucky State Penitentiary. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Son of John H. Todd and Maria K. Innes. Married Jane B. Davidson Todd in Franklin County, Kentucky, on August 20, 1839. Father of Harriet D. Todd, Ann J. Todd, John H. Todd, Chapman Todd, Harry J. Todd, Julia R. Todd, Maria C. Todd, George D. Todd, and Jenny Todd. Merchant in Franklin County in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Elected sheriff of Franklin county in 1859. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Lessee of the Kentucky State Penitentiary from 1863 to 1871.

Relationships Legal: Nathan Spilman (Franklin County, Kentucky, inmate.) Legal: Thomas Johnson (Lexington, Fayette County, resident.) Legal: A. Ginger (Lexington, Fayette County, resident, free man of color.) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 56A. 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. 394. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 501A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 140B. “Capt. Todd Dead,” The Frankfort Roundabout (KY), May 16, 1891, p. 5. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 78678, State 2859. "Harry Innes Todd (1818-1891)," Find A Grave, Memorial 61964201, accessed June 29, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61964201. A. Ginger (Lexington, Fayette County, resident, free man of color.) N00010641 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, resident, free man of color. Lexington, Kentucky native. Jailed for attempting to elope with enslaved woman circa 1864. Pardoned on April 25, 1865.

Relationships Legal: Thomas Johnson (Lexington, Fayette County, resident.) Legal: Adair Circuit Court Legal: Marion Circuit Court Legal: Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals)

KYR-0001-004-1647 Thomas Johnson (Lexington, Fayette County, resident.) N00010642 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, resident. Partnered with free man of color A. Ginger to pardon Ginger, who was imprisoned, in March 1865.

Relationships Legal: A. Ginger (Lexington, Fayette County, resident, free man of color.) Legal: Adair Circuit Court Legal: Marion Circuit Court Legal: Leslie Combs (Clerk of the Court of Appeals)

KYR-0001-004-1647 Fayette Circuit Court O00000377 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): John B. Norton.

Relationships Legal: John C. Cable (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Charles Scott Todd Bodley (Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff) Legal: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) Legal: George Washington Brand (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer and bank director) Economic: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Harrison Keith (Plymouth, Massachussetts, salesman and soldier (U.S.A.)) Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Confederate States Army O00000506 1861 1865 Categories: Organizations

Military forces of the Confederate States of America, administered by the Confederate War Department. Commander(s): General Robert E. Lee (1862-1865).

Relationships Military: William Harris (possible confederate soldier) Military: United States Army Military: John L. Morrison (La Salle County, Illinois, farmer and soldier) Military: Marshall Wright Chapin (Monroe County, Michigan, farmer and soldier.) Military: William E. Hobson (Warren County, Kentucky, soldier.) Military: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Political: John Hunt Morgan (Lexington, Kentucky, hemp manufacturer, Capt Lex Rifles, Col & Brig Gen' 2nd KY Cav CSA) Military: [Unknown] Cameron (Confederate soldier) Military: Richard Montgomery Gano (Texas, Confederate brigadier general) Military: Jefferson Davis (CS President) Military: Confederate States of America Military: Congress of the Confederate States of America Military: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Provisional Council Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page) Political: James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt) Political: Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep ) Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate)) Political: Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt) Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: James H. Orr (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, justice of the peace, sergeant and second lieutenant (C.S.A.) ) Military: Reddick Nichols (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and)

Henry Putney Beers, The Confederacy: A Guide to the Archives of the Government of the Confederate States of America (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1968, reprinted 1986), 259. Adair Circuit Court O00000338 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 6th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861. Judge: Thomas E. Bramlette. Commonwealth's Attorney: Ephraim L. Van Winkle. Clerk: Junius Caldwell.

Located in the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Judge: Thomas T. Alexander. Commonwealth's Attorney: John H. C. Sandidge. Clerk: James T. Page.

Relationships Legal: Bal Daniels (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: Micajah Richards (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: John Mullins (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge) Legal: Richard Smith (Cumberland County) Legal: Herschel Clay Baker (Adair County, KY, attorney) Legal: William E. Russell (Adair County attorney) Legal: R. M. Alexander (Cumberland County physician) Legal: Milton M. Smiley (Cumberland County) Legal: Benjamin B. Vaughan (Cumberland County) Legal: George W. Overstreet (Overton County, Tennessee, farmer, merchant and tobacco dealer) Legal: Robert C. Logan (Cumberland County Court Clerk) Legal: Timoleon Cravens (Adair County attorney) Legal: Alexander Naylor (Adair County) Legal: James M. Wilson (Adair Co. Farmer) Legal: Josiah Frankum (Adair County) Legal: Robert T. Bennett (Adair County) Legal: A. B. Williams (Adair County) Legal: Joel Robert Montgomery (Adair County) Legal: Hiram C. White (Adair County) Legal: Hugh K. Walker (Adair County) Legal: Samuel Wilburne (Cumberland County) Legal: Reece Morgan (Adair County) Legal: Jane Smith (Clinton County) Legal: Thomas Wood (Cumberland County) Legal: T. Q. Walker (Adair County physician) Legal: Louisa Morgan (Cumberland County) Legal: Sydney S. Dunbar (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Kentucky State Penitentiary O00000266 1798 1884 Categories: Organizations

State prison of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort, Kentucky. Operated from 1798 to 1884. Keeper(s): Jeremiah W. South (1859-1863) and Harry I. Todd (1863-1871).

Relationships Economic: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Legal: Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) Economic: Ephraim Whitesides (Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary) Legal: Charles Hawkins (Frankfort, Kentucky) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: Angelo Devoto (Louisville, Kentucky, confectionery shop owner) Legal: James Duddleson (stub, mercer or boyle county) Legal: James Savage (Wayne County farmer and penitentiary inmate) Legal: James Johnson (Campbell County, Kentucky, prisoner) Economic: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Economic: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: William J. Tice (Steele) (Jefferson Co, Frankfort, and Covington, KY) Legal: Felix McDermot (Kenton County laborer and prisoner for grand larceny) Legal: David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher) Legal: Thomas Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and convict) Legal: Francis Pace (Harlan County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Birmingham (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: Daniel Bush (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker) Legal: Charles T. Sullivan (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident and inmate) Political: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Political: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Political: John T. Hockensmith (Franklin County, KY, prison guard) Political: Luther S. Prentiss (Franklin County, KY, miller) Political: Robert W. Willhoit (Franklin County, Kentucky, petitioner ) Political: R. K. Taylor (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: James Gallahue (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: Thomas J. Frazier (Breathitt County, Kentucky, postmaster, politician, judge, and Register of the Land Office) Political: L. Tobias (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Wesley [Unknown] (Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Legal: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: William Duerbeck (Ohio River boat steward.) Legal: John Smith (Mont Wilson) (Frankfort, Kentucky, inmate.) Legal: Austin Bingham (Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Convicted of murder in 1859.) Legal: Jeremiah W. South (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the State Penitentiary) Legal: John J. Dyer, Jr. (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) Legal: William Johnson (Convicted of grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court in 1863.) Legal: Daniel W. Clark (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Stephen W. Duval (McLean County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.)

Calvin Fairbank, Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He “Fought the Good Fight” to Prepare “The Way” (Chicago: R. R. McCabe & Co., 1890), 54-56; 104-117; 139-46. J. W. South. “Report of the Keeper and Lessee of the Kentucky Penitentiary to the General Assembly, September 13, 1861,” Legislative Document Series, No. 7 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 3-13. Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880, Legislative Document No. 18 (Frankfort: E. H. Porter, 1880), 78. William C. Sneed, A Report on the History and Mode of Management of the Kentucky Penitentiary from its Origin, in 1798, to March 1, 1860 (Frankfort: Senate of Kentucky, 1860), 553. Marion Circuit Court O00000425 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 5th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Kavanaugh and John E. Newman. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Andy Barnett and Lorenzo H. Noble. Clerk(s): N. T. Berry, Frederick B. Merimee, and T. C. Jackson.

Relationships Legal: John St. Clair (Marion Co, Kentucky, petitioner)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Note English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Nathan Spilman FM Color June term 1862 Fayette ct ct -- Felony for 3 years --

This man was captured by the rebels and refused to go with them -- Please Send him a pardon

H I Todd

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Fayette Cir Ct vs Nathan Spilman F M. C.

Pardoned 22 May 1865

Issue pardon

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A Ginger ^F. M. C^ 12 years May Term 1862 Adair Circuit Court - charge Felony one of the greatest rascals in the Prison -

Thos Johnson - F. M C - 2 years May Term Marion Ct Ct- charge intec -

Tom was captured by the Rebels but refused to got with them. I will apply for a pardon for him in June.

H I Todd