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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-0001-029-0561 R4-391 to R4-392

Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) N00002279 1807-01-18 1869-09-01 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Hayden. Father of Nancy Hayden, James Hayden, Elizabeth Hayden, John Hayden, Lorinda Hayden, Levi Hayden, Catherine Sarah Hayden, and Mary Hayden. Resident of Henry County, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned three enslaved persons in Henry County in 1840. Farmer in Henry County in 1850. Farmer in Henry County in 1860.

Relationships Social: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer)

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, p. 268. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 386. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 2, p. 225. "Edward Hayden (1807-1869)," Find A Grave, Memorial 28420872, accessed January 30, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28420872. William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) N00002280 1813? Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, farmer. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Married to Martha Ann Mowrie Carpenter Ransdall in Henry County, Kentucky, on September 21, 1852. Father of Ernest Frank Ransdall. Farmer in Henry County in 1850. Farmer in Henry County in 1860. Employed J. T. Ball as a laborer in Henry County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Legal: John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 369A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 2, p. 223. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 2, p. 195A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Port Royal, p. 368B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Film # 994038: Henry County Marriages, 1852, p. 1 of 17 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1965), KDLA, Film # 7019169: All Counties: Jefferson County, 1932, File #16622, p. 131 of 3314 of microfilm. Find A Grave, “William H Ransdell (1813-1896)," Memorial # 66361986, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66361986/william-h.-ransdell (accessed April 30, 2021). KYR-0001-029-0561. George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) N00002278 1827-11-17 1898-01-01 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edward C. Drane and Judith Dupuy Drane. Married to Mary Shipman Drane in 1861. Father of Paul S. Drane. Graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1849. Partner with William S. Pryor in the law firm Pryor & Drane in Henry County in 1849. Resident of Henry County in 1850. Attorney in Henry County in 1860. Circuit judge of the Eighth Kentucky Judicial District from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Economic: Henry Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864) Social: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: [Unknown] McDermot (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Mother of Patrick McDermot.) Political: Patrick McDermot (Arrested for the attempted murder of Patrick Ford in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1861.) Social: [Unknown] McDermot (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Mother of Patrick McDermot.) Legal: John Anderson (Charged with grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court.) Legal: William Johnson (Convicted of grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court in 1863.) Legal: Albert Bridgeford (Frankfort, Kentucky, laborer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Gallatin Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 395B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 247. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 148B. 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), 301-306. 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. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Henry County, KY, August, 1863, p. 221. "Judge Drane Dead," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 2, 1898, p. 5. "Henry County law and government," Henry County Local (New Castle, KY), December 9, 1998, p. 6. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 30-1. John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) N00002277 1829-04-07 1903-12-01 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney. Ohio native. Married to Theresa Frank Scott in Mason County, Kentucky, on September 3, 1857. Married to Sallie F. Chiles Scott in Mason County on November 30, 1859. Father of Nettie Scott. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Attorney in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860. Partner with James Simpson in Simpson & Scott law firm in Frankfort in 1861. Commonwealth's attorney for the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Carroll Circuit Court Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Charles O'Hara (blacksmith, Grant County) Legal: Heman D. Stratton (school teacher, Grant County) Legal: William Tucker (Grant County resident) Legal: G. Washington Osborn (Grant County resident) Legal: Robert F. Coleman (Burlington, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: John Sanders (Posey, Indiana, farmer) Legal: Boone County Court Legal: Boone Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Legal: Jesse Redman (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: John W. Brookover (Huntington, Brown County, Ohio, farmer and soldier.) Legal: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Grant Circuit Court Social: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Social: Winthrop Hartly Hopson (Fayette County, Kentucky, minister. ) Social: [Unknown] Frazier (Mentioned as a judge in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1862.) Social: Emery Whitaker (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: John Calvin Mason (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney, congressman, and soldier.) Social: Robert Milligan (Mercer County, Kentucky, professor and university president. President of Kentucky University) Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: W. T. Moore (Franklin County, Kentucky, minister.) Social: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) Political: Willard Preble Hall (Seventeenth Governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician.) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Familial: Nettie Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: David G. Venable (Frankfort, Kentucky, student and soldier) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 363. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 154A. 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. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1867), 324. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts for the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1868, Legislative Document Series, No. 2 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, Public Printer, 1869), 23. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994048, Mason County Marriages. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281844. "John L. Scott," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), November 13, 1860, p. 2. "New Law Firm at Frankfort--Simpson & Scott," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 8, 1861, p. 3. "Touching Bereavement," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 8, 1866, p. 3. "Attorney John L. Scott Dead," The Morning Herald (Lexington, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 4. "Deaths: John L. Scott," Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 1. L. F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky (Frankfort, KY: Roberts Printing Co., 1912), 149. "Col John Lafayette Scott (1829-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15017815, accessed September 5, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15017815. 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. Henry Circuit Court O00000400 1798 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall and George C. Drane. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Patrick Upshire Major and John L. Scott. Clerk(s): E. P. Thomas and George C. Humston.

Relationships Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Caleb M. Mathews (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney & trustee) Legal: Green Berry Tingle, Jr. (Henry County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Turner [Unknown] (Henry Co, KY, slave of James Boyer) Legal: George T. Humston (Henry County, Kentucky, deputy sheriff and circuit court clerk) Legal: Stephen Coleman (Carroll County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Isaac Newton Webb (Henry County, KY, attorney, judge, and KY House Rep) Legal: James W. Pearce (Henry County, Kentucky, postmaster and gentleman & postmaster) Legal: Madison B. Luckett (Henry County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Harvey M. Buckley (Henry County, KY, attorney and Col. 5th & 54th KY Inf USA) Legal: Morgan B. Pearce (Henry County, KY, county court clerk) Legal: Hamilton Ellis (Henry County, Kentucky, deputy court clerk) Legal: William E. Berryman (Henry County, KY, deputy sheriff and merchant) Legal: William J. Brewer (Henry County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: James M. Jones (Henry County, Kentucky, jailer) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Legal: William Samuel Pryor (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney.) Legal: Harison Roberts (Henry County, Kentucky, hotel keeper.) Legal: Edmund P. Thomas (Henry County, son of Edmund Pendleton Thomas) Legal: Charles M. Humston (Henry County sheriff and 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. 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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In the case of the commonwealth against Edward Hayden for Stukey Ransdale. Hayden not appearing The testimony in substance was That Hayden & Ransdale were both old men. near neighbors. members of the same church and on friendly terms & had been so for years. That They were walking home together from church on sunday & were in friendly conversation when Hayden asked Ransdale if he did not think it a sin to own slaves. Ransdale replyed that he did not when Hayden became furiously mad & struck Ransdale when they fought. neither being much injured. Hayden introduced no no testimony & did not attend the trial. Hayden was fined one Hundred & fity Dollars & costs for which Execution issued & -- is now in the sheriffs hands This Judgment was rendered at the Septr term of the -- Hrny Circut Court1862

Geo. C. Drane ct- Judge. John L. Scott, Com. atty.