Logan County, KY, Order Book 6


Nov 1813 – Sept 1817

Notes

The first 2 pages of this book are missing.

Throughout this book you will find many more wills brought to court and ordered as recorded.  Multiple reports may be made on estate settlements but most have no detail here but are probably recorded in Will Books.  Also many pages will have road overseers and the men assigned to help them maintain the public roads assigned them.

P. 7, Nov 1813, the court meets to lay the levy.  They pay $1 each for 14 young wolf scalps and $1.50 each for two grown wolf scalps.  They pay James Kerr $30 for taking care of and keeping his children who appear to be poor and helpless.  Peggy Shoffat, a poor woman, is given $20.00.

P. 8, Levin King is given $20.00 to take care of Sarah Taylor, a poor woman.

Edward Hockersmith is awarded $1500 for a new jail.  He then asks on page 9 to be given until 1 May 1814 to prepare jail for criminals and until 1 July 1814 for the debtors.

P. 11, John Breathitt gave bond to be paymaster for the 2nd or 23rd regiment.

P. 13, Thomas S. Slaughter and Presley Edwards are to view the office of the court and report to court on the situation.

Bricklayer Lewis Dalton takes Nathan Harris, 16, as apprentice.

P. 17, Dec 1813, John Murren, 18 on his next birthday on 23 Feb, chose Presley Morehead as his guardian.

P. 18, John H. Grinter is accused in a bastardy case.

P. 19, Peyton W. Lyon, 13 on 25 July 1814, is apprenticed to William Duncan to learn the tanner and curryer’s trade.  Does anyone know what a curryer does?

P. 20, tavern rates are set: night’s lodging will be 12 ½ cents; meal will be 37 ½ cents; ½ pint of wine is 50 cents; ½ pint of whiskey is 12 ½ cents.

P. 27, Feb 1814, William Marrs, sheriff, posts $10,000 bond as required by law.

P. 31, East Main and Main Cross Street are a part of one overseer’s assignment.

P. 32, Jacob W. Walker is listed as an honest man and on page 51, he files his attorney license.  On page 44, Robert Pollard Jr. is listed as an honest man.

P. 33, Mar 1814, John Johnson Wells will be apprenticed to John Roberts, hatter.  He will be 16 on 2 March 1814.

P. 34 Joel Browning is released from being an apprentice.  No cause is given.

P. 38, Armistead Morehead resigns as clerk and Spencer Curd is appointed for he presented a certificate from the Court of Appeals.

P. 39-40, May 1814, the following men are nominated to be justice of the peace and are grouped as shown: John Barnet & Archibald Felts, Joseph Bigger Sr. & Joseph Sloss, John McCutchen & Miles Baird, William Curd & Peyton Harrison, George McLean & Wythe Baylor, Edmund Curd & James Smith, Samuel Mitchell & David Sawyers.

P. 45, Martin Gilbert states he was not a resident on 10 Mar 1813 so does not have to pay tax assessed him.

P. 47, June 1814, John Stevenson of the Methodist Episcopal Church is given license to perform rites of matrimony.

P. 48, the nuncupative will of Michael Ward is accepted and ordered to be recorded.

John B. & Peyton B. Lyon are released from William Duncan to whom they were bound and Richard Bibb became their guardian.  They did not wish to make public complaint (so we can only wonder).

P. 50-51, 35 patrollers are assigned various areas and it states they are to receive no pay.

P. 53, tavern rates are same except now breakfast, lunch or dinner will be 25 cents.

The county cannot get title to the clerk’s office for part of it is on land owned by John Gray.  Spencer Curd will donate ground for the erection of a new office.  He is directed to sell the present office to Gray and to build another one on the donated land from the profit of the sale and no more.

P. 57, John Peter Belew, son of Mercy, 12 years of age on 28 June 1814, is bound out to William Baker, bricklayer, for 6 years.

P. 64-65, Sep 1814, Thomas Steirky and James C. Frazer are excused from road work due to inability.

Benjamin Jackson, Baptist, is given license to perform marriage ceremony.

William Manksfield who will be age 5 years next February is bound out to learn the trades of carpenter, blacksmith, and mill trades.  Since he’s only 4, I guess he’ll have time!

P. 68, Nov 1814, since the sheriff’s term expires February next, West Maulding and Urbin Ewing are nominated to Isaac Shelby, governor, and the court recommended seniority.  This implies they recommend the two men but expect the senior one to be appointed to the office.  Am I right in “guessing” this to be the aim of the court?  On page 91, West Maulding is appointed sheriff and posts $10,000 bond.  Deputy sheriffs appointed on page 93 in 1815 are William J. Morton, Young Ewing, Reuben A. Ewing, and John W. B. Wigginton.

P. 70, court meets to lay levy again.  James Karr gets $60 to help in has care of 2 helpless children.  Thomas McLernahan is to get $8 for burial expenses of Alsa McDaniel, the amount payable out of deposition, if any.

P. 75, the sale of the estate of Sir Francis Drake is returned and ordered.

P. 82, Jan 1815, Peyton Lyon is apprenticed to William First, cabinet maker.

P. 84, William Angel’s widow refuses to act as administrator so the court is asked to appoint another.

P. 87, Susan, Thomas, and John are listed orphans of David Lockhart and these are not listed in the will.

P. 88, Sarah Campbell is apprenticed to Richard Bibb, Jr. to learn spinster’s trade.

P. 89, the county surveyor, William Reading, has died.

P. 96, Riley Holly, 11, and Thomas Holly, 6, are apprenticed to James Peart, stone mason.

P. 99, Lucinda & Polly Holly are to be cared for by Edward Hockersmith and he is to get $40 to care for them for 1 year.

P. 101, February, 1815, Jourdon Sander, 15, is apprenticed to Frederick Weller, tailor.

P. 102, Frederick Hise is granted license for a tavern.

P. 105, John Price (red head) is appointed overseer of a road.

P. 107, Robert Pollard is deceased and is not listed in wills or settlement cases.

P. 108, Ephraim M. Ewing is declared an honest man and probably goes on to become a lawyer as others have with this designation.

P. 110, the nuncupative will of George Campbell is proved in court and the will book states it is a written will. 

P. 112, May 1815, Hiram Hunter is apprenticed to E. & W. Right to learn saddlers trade. 

The surveyor is instructed to alter the prison bounds so as to include the new jail, Amos Edward’s tavern, F. Dallam’s tavern, West Maulding’s tavern, and the old jail so as just to include 10 acres.

P. 115, Patience Martin is ordered to produce the will of William B. Martin, deceased.  On page 125 in June, Patience Martin says she does not have the will of William B. Martin.  On page 141 in September, the will of William B. Martin shows up and is proven by a witness in Halifax Co., NC.

P. 117, nuncupative will of Elkaner Adams is proved in court and will book states it was a written will.

P. 119, June 1815, the court is ordered to remove the license of James McGriffen, no reason given.

P. 120, Robert Pollard, Jr., deceased, is not listed in wills or settlements.

P. 121, court recommends Benjamin Barner as coroner to replace Hugh Stephenson.

P. 122, Lewis Ragsdale is excused from paying levy on a blind Negro woman.

P. 124, Goodrich Chappel is excused from paying levy and from working on public  roads.

P. 125, Samuel Mitchell resigns as justice of the peace, William Barner Jr. is excused from paying levy or working on roads.

P. 126, tavern rates are set again with a meal costing 25 cents, lodging 8 cents, with wine 50 cents a ½ pint and whiskey, 12 and ½  cents for ½ pint.

P. 127, Ephraim McLean and Herbert P. Gaynes are given license to act as attorneys in the county and on page 129, John Gaynes is declared an honest man.

P. 135, Russellville trustees are elected.

P. 136, Samuel White is ordered to appear in court for it is alleged that he has not treated Peggy, Nancy, Polly, Lucy McKown and Richard James as the law directs.  (Depending on the writing, Richard James could also be Richard and James McKown.)

P. 142, Grigsby Rush, Methodist minister, and James Conyers, Baptist, are given licenses to marry couples.

P. 143, James McKoin’s orphans, James, Seth, Eli, Graham, Cassandra, Betsy, are listed with Mary as their guardian.  These are not in the will book.

P. 144, John Trice, aged 15 on 30 March last, is apprenticed to David Caldwell, saddler.

P. 145, KY vs. Samuel G. Whyte for not treating apprentices as the law directs is mentioned but no decision was in book.

P. 152, the delinquent lists are turned in by the tax commissioners.  The levy is laid and each tithable will have to pay 53 and ½ cents.  The jail is built according to contract and debtors and criminals in the future are to be kept in jail.

P. 157, Sion Pritchett, aged 17 on 29 Mar last, is apprenticed to Alexander Morton, bootmaker.

P. 161, George Morgan, aged 17 on 21 Feb next, is apprenticed to William C. Donly, tanner and currying trades to be learned.

P. 165, Green P. Rice is given license to marry couples, no denomination listed.

P. 169, January 1816, Allen Campbell is appointed jailer and he is to keep the stray pen and courthouse in order.

P. 172, West Maulding, sheriff, is to sell the old jail and negotiate a note payable in 120 days.  Benjamin Wilkins is listed as orphan of Richard Wilkins and is not listed in other books.

P. 175, Spencer Curd gets 72 of his acreage added to the town of Russellville.

P. 177, February 1816, orphans of Richard Wilkins are not all listed in the settlement in Nov 1816.  Here we have listed Betsey, Mary, James, Jeremiah, Polly, and Francis.

P. 180, William Sears, Sr. is heir of Harmon Sears, an unmarried man, 7th Regt. US Army, killed at St. Louis, 4 July last.

P. 180, William Kercheval is heir at law of Samuel Kercheval, late unmarried son, who was a member of the 7th Reg., US infantry.

P. 181, Dolphin Wells, aged 15 on 1 Jan last, is apprenticed to John Roberts, hatter.

P. 184, March 1816, the managers of the Russellville Masonic Lottery make bond.

P. 192, May 1816, Mary Eliza Acock, aged 2 on 20 Sept next, orphan of John, is apprenticed to Mary Simons to learn spinsters trade.  Patsey Acock, aged 3 on 8 March last, orphan of John, is apprenticed to Robert Acock to learn spinsters trade.

P. 193, a business known as Russellville Inspection for the inspection of tobacco is to be established on lot of Samuel H. Curd and John K. Smith where the old rope and other factory was kept by William Reading.  Inspectors are to be appointed.

P. 196, the stray pen is to be removed to the public ground adjoining the jail.

P. 197, Wolf Lick Inspection is formed, named, and inspectors will be appointed.

P. 199, Robert Long, free boy of color, aged 8, is apprenticed to William Kercheval, farmer.

P. 200, Oliver Cromwell, no age given, is apprenticed to James Mosley, saddler.

P. 208, June 1816, John Obed Feazle and Jubel Feazle, aged 12 on 1 October last, are apprenticed to Thomas Grubbs, brick layer.  Grisiby Rolls or Ralls is listed as deceased and does not show up in will books.

P. 209, Hiram Eads, aged 14, is apprenticed to George Mason, carpenter.  Thomas Page, 6, a boy of color, is apprenticed to Alex Morton, shoe and book maker.

P. 219, August 1816, Hubbard Sanders wanted to add his 120 acres to Russellville.  John Breathitt objects but it is added anyway.  On page 221, Amos Edwards gets to add another 25+ acres to Russellville even though Breathitt objected to this also.

P. 225, Clinton Smith, aged 7, is apprenticed to George Cook, brick layer.

P. 230, John Wickware, son of Alpheus, died in service of 44th Regiment.

P. 234, November 1816, tavern rates now allow 12 ½ cents for a night’s lodging and 37 ½ cents for a meal.

P. 238, court allows $50 for poor woman, Betsy Taylor, and $40 for poor woman, Mourning Dyal.

P. 240, West Maulding’s time as sheriff is up and the court recommends Robert Ewing and Urbin Ewing.  On page 272, they both refuse the office and suggest Young Ewing and he takes it after the Senate approves.

P. 242, Peter Hansbrough emancipated Nelson Tinsley.

P. 265, Sion Pritchett complains of his apprentice situation and is released and then apprenticed to David Russell, shoemaker.  On page 289, Sion is called to court to tell why he is against Alex Morton, his late master, and the court is to consider the case.  David Russell had not signed the indenture of Sion so he is to stay with Morton.  On page 303, Alex Morton is called to court to tell why Thomas Page, an infant bound to him, should not be taken away but no one comes to court to testify so Morton keeps the child.

P. 268, February 1816, William Ramy, aged 13 on 12 June next, is appreticed to Sam Linebaugh, silversmith & jeweler.  Howard Ramy, 7, birthday in May, and Shelley martin, 11 on 6 Sep next, are apprenticed to Alex Hulse, shoe and boot maker.

P. 270, Nathan Rame, 11, is apprenticed to William Owens, blacksmith.

P. 275, Edmund Jones, age 14 on 13 March next, is apprenticed to William Morris, shoemaker.  William Pace, 15, will learn shoe and book maker trades from David N. Russell.

P. 295, May 1817, Scipio Africanus McKoin, age 17 on 15 June 1817, is apprenticed to William Owens, blacksmith.

P. 298, Sparta is a to be established on the land of Thomas McLanahan on the Nashville to Lexington Road.  On page 337 in September, he comes to court and wants the court to order a road viewed and maintained to Sparta.

P. 311, Larkin Street, age 17 on 17 Dec next, is apprenticed to John Sanders, carpenter.  Washington Smith Trice, age 14 on 25 Dec next, is apprenticed to Elijah & William Wright, saddlers.

P. 317, William Aldridge, 4, is apprenticed to Lewis Dalton, brick layer.

P. 318, August 1817, John Holloway, age 15 on 29 April last, is apprenticed to Caldwells to learn tanners trade.  Ann, Dolphin, May, Aviana, and Mariah are listed as orphans of Warner W. Drew.

P. 328, Jonathan Redd is the orphan of James Reed and this is not found in will books.  Jacob Houx, Zach Simons, and John Huffstutler are called to court to explain why they should not be fined and triple taxed for not giving the list of their taxable property for the year.

P. 339, September 1817, Isabell Bailey has died, not listed in will books.

P. 347, William Browning, apprentice to William Duncan, complains of his situation but court says he must stay with Duncan.  Next page, William Duncan agrees to release William Browning to Sutton & Browning, tanners.

 

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Judy Utley Lyne, President,

Logan Co., KY, Genealogical Society, Inc.

P. O. Box 853

Russellville, KY 42276-0853