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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-0001-021-0026 MG8-109

Jim Brown (Henderson, Kentucky, enslaved man) N00010547 1828? 1861 Categories: People

Henderson, Kentucky, enslaved man. Owned by Seraphina Pentecost in Henderson County, Kentucky, c.1858. Escaped to Indiana in 1859. Owned by Seraphina Pentecost in Henderson County in 1860. Escaped in 1861. Accused of killing Walter A. Norwood in Henderson County on April 1, 1861. Killed during manhunt in Indiana.

Relationships Social: Walter Alves Norwood (Henderson County, Kentucky, physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Posey County, Mount Vernon, p. 676. Emily Moses, “On the Border of Freedom,”Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition blog, September 24, 2018, accessed April 11, 2019, http://civilwargovernors.org/on-the-border-of-freedom/. KYR-0001-021-0026. KYR-0001-021-0028. Note 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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Description Name 'Jim Brown"

About 5 feet 9 inches tall Weighs one hundred and fifty pounds -- Between thirty and thirty fyears old -- quick spoken and fond of talking