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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0074 R3-120

Greenup County, Kentucky John Seaton (Greenup County, KY, judge) N00008740 1823? Categories: People

Greenup County, Kentucky, accountant and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Mary E. Seaton. Father of H. E. Seaton, Rebecca Seaton, William B. Seaton, Edward Seaton, Mary Seaton, and Dora Seaton. Accountant in Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1860. Judge of Greenup County Court in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Greenup County Court Legal: Jeremiah Davidson (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaper publisher) Legal: George E. Roe (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John S. Jones (Greenup County, Kentucky, county court clerk, postmaster, iron manufacturer & manager ) Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, East Little Sandy, p. 913. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, Greenupsburg, p.37B. KYR-0002-225-0072. George E. Roe (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney) N00007995 1828-01-28 1886-01-10 Categories: People

Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Married to Ursula Howland Roe in Greenup County, Kentucky, on December 29, 1853. Father of Mary W. Roe, Benjamin E. Roe, Nancy Roe, and Alice J. Roe. Resident of Greenup County in 1850. Attorney in Greenup County in 1860. Employed E. Foster as a servant in Greenup County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Greenup County Court Legal: John S. Jones (Greenup County, Kentucky, county court clerk, postmaster, iron manufacturer & manager ) Legal: John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 1, p. 239A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, Subdistrict 2, pp. 835-836. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, Greenupsburg, p. 33A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994036, Greenup County Marriages. "George Elliot Roe (1828-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6428508, accessed May 5, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6428508. Jeremiah Davidson (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaper publisher) N00002432 1815-11-04 Categories: People

Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney. Lawrence County, Ohio, native. Son of John Davidson and Margaret Davidson. Married to Eliza A. Corum Davidson in December 1834. Father of Alfred W. Davidson, Henry C. Davidson, Charles W. Davidson, Theodore F. Davidson, Edgar P. Davidson, and Annie M. Davidson. Hotel keeper in Greenup County, Kentucky, from 1832 to 1843. Admitted to the bar in Greenup County on October 31, 1846. Magistrate and justice of the peace in Greenup County. Attorney in Greenup County in 1860. Editor and proprietor of the Greenup Record.

Relationships Legal: Greenup County Court Legal: George E. Roe (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John S. Jones (Greenup County, Kentucky, county court clerk, postmaster, iron manufacturer & manager ) Social: John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer) Legal: John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer) Social: Elijah Connor Phister (Mason County, KY, circuit court judge, attorney, and later? mayor)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, East Little Sandy, p. 838. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, Greenupsburg, p. 33B. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 6th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1886). John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer) N00017479 1825? Categories: People

Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and attorney. Ohio native. Son of Joseph Adams. Attorney in Knox County, Ohio, in 1850. Judge of the Greenup County Court in Greenup County, Kentucky, from 1858-1861. Attorney in Greenup County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Greenup Circuit Court Legal: Greenup County Court Legal: Jeremiah Davidson (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaper publisher) Legal: George E. Roe (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John S. Jones (Greenup County, Kentucky, county court clerk, postmaster, iron manufacturer & manager ) Legal: John Seaton (Greenup County, KY, judge) Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Kentucky Court of Appeals Social: John Seaton (Greenup County, KY, judge) Legal: John Brough (Twenty-sixth Governor of the State of Ohio, newspaper editor, railroad president, and politician.) Political: Elijah Connor Phister (Mason County, KY, circuit court judge, attorney, and later? mayor) Political: Jonathan Williams (Greenup County, Kentucky, master collier.) Political: James Lawrence Waring (Greenup County, Kentucky, resident and farmer.) Political: Charles M. Smith (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer.) Political: J. J. Thompson (Signed a petition to nominate Jeremiah Moor to fill a vacancy on the Greenup County Court.) Political: Andrew Suter Meek (Greenup County, Kentucky, day laborer and farmer.) Political: James Frisby (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and physician.) Political: Daniel McGarey (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Thomas M. Gambol (Greenup County, Kentucky, resident) Political: George W. Truitt (Greenup County, KY, farmer) Political: Matthew L. Thompson (Greenup County, KY, farmer) Political: Jeremiah Moore (Greenup County, KY, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Knox County, Monroe, p. 299A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States(1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, East Little Sandy, p. 839. "An Act for the benefit of John C. Adams, judge of the Greenup quarterly court," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, Ky: John B. Major and W. R. Hughes Public Printer, 1861, 1862, and 1863), 158. John S. Jones (Greenup County, Kentucky, county court clerk, postmaster, iron manufacturer & manager ) N00016957 1826? Categories: People

Greenup County, Kentucky, postmaster, iron manufacturer, and court clerk. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Jones. Father of Joanna Jones, Murtz Jones, Mollie Jones, Anne Jones, Alice Jones, and E. Jones. Iron manufacturer in Greenup County, Kentucky, in 1850. Postmaster of Amanda in Greenup County from May 28, 1850, to July 27, 1852. Furnace manager in Greenup County in 1860. Clerk of the Greenup County Court in September 1862.

Relationships Social: Benjamin F. Pratt (Greenup County, Kentucky, JP? ) Legal: Greenup County Court Legal: Jeremiah Davidson (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaper publisher) Legal: George E. Roe (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John Seaton (Greenup County, KY, judge) Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Adolphus Lafayette Reid (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer, and sheriff. ) Legal: John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, District 2, p. 181A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup County, East Little Sandy Subdistrict 2, p. 876. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Greenup County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 627. KYR-0001-031-0012. Greenup County, Kentucky P001759 Categories: Places

County in northeastern Kentucky. Seat at Greenup. Located on the Ohio River.

38.5666, -82.9502 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 126. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Greenup County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 18, 2019). Greenup County Court O00000627 Categories: Organizations

Located in Greenupsburg, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): John Seaton. Clerk(s): William Corum and George A. Corum.

Relationships Economic: Robert McAllister (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: William Corum (Greenup County, Kentucky, county and circuit clerk) Legal: John S. Jones (Greenup County, Kentucky, county court clerk, postmaster, iron manufacturer & manager ) Legal: Jeremiah Davidson (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney and newspaper publisher) Legal: George E. Roe (Greenup County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John C. Adams (Greenup County, Kentucky, judge and lawyer) Legal: Adolphus Lafayette Reid (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer, and sheriff. ) Legal: John Seaton (Greenup County, KY, judge) Legal: Jeremiah Moore (Greenup County, KY, farmer)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. 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. Greenup County, Kentucky 1862-09-23 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Greenup County CourtSpecial Term September 23d 1862

Your respondent for answer to the rules illegally and unjustly issued against him as he really believes.) ordered against him by whom he is not informed by the Copies of the Same Served on him (within perhaps two hours of each other) Says that he has not in his hands any report or paper belonging to the Judge of said Court, nor has he in his possession any report of Said Roe & Davidson of the indebtedness of Greenup ^this^ County that ever was recieved by the County Court of said County as an official or office paper or that was Ever ordered to be filed in Said Court or that Ever was So filed. He has a report of the indebtedness of Said County made by them for the Sole use of this respondent So ordered by him when Judge of said court for the purpose of publishing Said indebtedness of said County in hand bill form for Ccrculation among the tax payers of this County Up to or near the time respondent went out of Office as he had repeatedly promised the people of the County ^he would do^ and which (if not prevented) he intends to do -- Your respondent would farther State that the former Clerk of Said Court made many Errors in Calculations of interest or at least the orders on the order book So shew it as also the report Shews it and respondent has been and is Examining Said report Carefully in order that he may have ^a correct the indebtedness correct^ ^that he may^ Exhibit the Same to the Court of Claims for their inspection before publishing the Same and if Said Court of Claims wishes the Said report. It is and has been Respondents intention after pointing out to them the Errors of the former orders made at

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the last Court to deliver the Same to them if they So desire and ^another^ another reason it was not filed in the Court ere this was because It was never recieved by the Court officially no order was Ever made by me as Judge of Said Court recieving the report as no report of any Commissioner for any purpose to and a portion of the archives of said ^court^ until recieved by the Court and an order upon the order Book of Said Court filing the Same Any Gentleman by Calling at my Office between this and the Court of Claims can See the report aforesaid having fully responded to the Rules. Your respondent asks that they may be discharged

J. C Adams

Affirmed to before me by the respondent John C Adams this 24th day September 1862

John S. Jones Clk Greenup County Court

A Copy Attest John S. Jones C G. C C

Commonwealth vs } Response John. C. Adams

Filed September 24th 1862