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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-021-0019 MG8-100

Clarksburg, Lewis County, Kentucky Samuel McRoberts (Rowan County, Kentucky, farmer and fugitive) N00014658 1812? Categories: People

Rowan County, Kentucky, gunsmith, farmer, and fugitive. Kentucky native. Married to Miranda McRoberts. Father of Elizabeth McRoberts, Barbara McRoberts, James McRoberts, Rebecca J. McRoberts, Aaron McRoberts, David R. McRoberts, Daniel W. McRoberts, Michael P. McRoberts, William McRoberts, Kerilla McRoberts, and Margaret McRoberts. Gunsmith in Fleming County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Rowan County in 1860. Indicted for stealing horses in 1861. Fugitive from Lewis County in 1861.

Relationships Legal: Lewis County Court Legal: Fleming County Jail Legal: Mason County Jail Legal: Lewis County Jail

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 339B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, Morehead, p. 613. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, Pine Grove, p. 132A. KYR-0001-021-0017. KYR-0001-021-0018. Clarksburg, Kentucky P00014653 Categories: Places

Seat of Lewis County, Kentucky, from 1809 to 1864. Located on Salt Lick Creek.

38.5851, -83.366 "Clarksburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 2, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 58-59. 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). Lewis County Jail O00014664 Categories: Organizations

Detention facility in Lewis County, Kentucky. Located in Vanceburg, Kentucky. Jailer(s): Albert G. H. Rice (1860-1861) ,W. R. Hendrickson (1861-1862).

Relationships Legal: Samuel McRoberts (Rowan County, Kentucky, farmer and fugitive) Legal: Albert G. H. Rice (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer and shoemaker)

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), 305. KYR-0001-021-0018. Clarksburg, Lewis County, Kentucky 1861-02-13 Broadside English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Fifty Dollars Reward!!

I will give the above Reward for the apprehension and lodgement in any jail, where I can get him, within Five months of this date, of

Samuel McRoberts,

Who escaped from the Lewis County Jail, on the night of the 12th of February, 1861,

Said McRoberts is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, quick spoken, indistinct utterance, slender built, black eyes and dark hair.

A. G. RICE, J. L. C. Clarksburg, Ky., February 13th, 1861.

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Reward of $200 in addition