Bourbon County, KY Court Orders
Transcribed by Jerry Taylor.
This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.
Located in the Bourbon Co., KY Court Orders are numerous emancipation orders that were not listed in the Deeds of Manumission Book. (See Deeds of Manumission Abstracts) In an effort to assist African Americans researching their enslaved ancestors the process is now underway to abstract the manumissions located in the court orders. These emancipation orders give such information as owner, person(s) being freed, date being freed and on occasion a description of the freed person along with other pertinent information. It was originally planned to completely transcribe all of the manumissions among the court orders, but since it has been determined that there are possibly hundreds of emancipations among the orders a new course of action of building an index with an abstraction of each would be better suited for this task. In situations where an order gives added information or is determined to be unique in some respect, that order will be transcribed in it's entirety and posted. Among the transcriptions there will also be an occasional order that does not pertain to an emancipation, but pertains to African Americans and as such added among the transcriptions. This is a work in progress, as these orders are transcribed these pages will be updated regularly.
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|
Owner |
Freed Person |
Book |
Page |
Slave A Page |
Date Filed |
Date Effective |
Description/Remarks |
|
Adams, John |
Enos |
C |
180 |
|
03/17/1801 |
06/01/1810 |
Age about 16 or 17; to be set free at the age of maturity |
|
Allen, Larry |
Mariah |
K |
213 |
250 |
09/02/1833 |
|
Bound out to Larry Allen |
|
Allen, Larry |
Sally |
K |
213 |
251 |
09/02/1833 |
|
Bound out to Larry Allen |
|
Andrews, John C. |
|
K |
143 |
247 |
|
|
Discharge L 33 |
|
Banon, Aaron |
Carey |
K |
396 |
116 |
07/07/1834 |
07/07/1834 |
|
|
Barlow, Thompson |
Jack |
D |
353 |
|
01/08/1811 |
01/08/1811 |
Aged about 48 years |
|
Barnett, Alexander |
McGuire, Edward "Ned" |
D |
7 |
|
03/21/1808 |
03/21/1808 |
Age 35 years |
|
Batterton, Benjamin |
Hannah |
F |
310 |
|
09/04/1819 |
09/04/1819 |
|
|
Batterton |
George |
F |
387 |
|
|
|
|
|
Batterton Admin. |
Willis Batterton |
K |
398 |
116 |
09/01/1834 |
09/01/1834 |
|
|
Batterton, Benjamin |
Hannah |
F |
310 |
|
10/04/1819 |
10/04/1819 |
|
|
Becraft, Jonathan |
Stevenson, Notley |
K |
343 |
110 |
1/3/1834 |
1/3/1834 |
See Deeds of Manumissions |
|
Bedinger, George M. |
Sam, Sarah & Chaney |
C |
3 |
|
07/15/1799 |
07/15/1799 |
|
|
Black, John |
Dick |
F |
82 |
|
07/17/1817 |
07/17/1817 |
Security Bond $200 |
|
Black, John |
Roger |
E |
400 |
|
04/03/1815 |
04/03/1815 |
Age 38 yrs; black complexion; 5' 10" tall; Security Bond set for $200 |
|
Boulder, George |
Margaret |
K |
400 |
215 |
09/01/1834 |
|
Age 3 years on the 17th day of July 1834, to be bound out to George Boulder to learn the trade of housewife |
|
Bowles, Bob |
Richardson, Harry |
K |
119 |
98 |
12/03/1832 |
12/03/1832 |
Mulatto, Age 39 yrs., 5' 10 1/2", weighs 160 lbs. |
|
Brown, Alexander |
Lucy |
C |
640 |
|
01/00/1807 |
12/26/1806 |
Age 31 yrs.; to be set free to live with her husband who is free; |
|
Brown, Alexander deceased (By Executors: David Purvience, Jeremiah Frame & William Henry) |
Mosy/Moses |
D |
44 |
|
08/30/1808 |
08/30/1808 |
"Last Will and Testament of Alexander Brown deceased bearing date October the 29th 1795. That his negroe man named Mosy shall continue in servitude for the space of ten years from the date of said Last Will and Testament and if he behaves well and labours faithfully during that time he shall thereafter be free." |
|
Carter, George & Robert |
Elijah |
K |
347 |
111 |
2/20/1834 |
3/3/1834 |
See Deeds of Manumissions |
|
Clark, John |
Michael |
C |
312 |
|
03/11/1803 |
03/11/1803 |
Age 24; Paid 95 pounds for his freedom |
|
Clinkenbeard, Isaac |
Adam |
D |
462 |
|
01/06/1812 |
01/06/1812 |
Security bond set at 50 pounds |
|
Collins, Martha; Collins, Foster; Davis, John; Turney, Peter; Spiers, Ransom |
Frederick |
D |
461 |
|
01/06/1812 |
01/06/1812 |
Security bond set at 50 pounds |
|
Collins, Wm |
Lewis, Aaron (Indenture) |
K |
360 |
212 |
04/07/1834 |
|
Age 11 yrs. last January 25th 1834, to be bound out to Wm Collins |
|
Demitt, Joshua |
Louisa |
K |
213 |
121 |
04/06/1835 |
|
See Deeds of Manumission |
|
Demitt, Richard |
Nancy |
E |
241 |
|
04/12/1814 |
04/12/1814 |
Age 30 or upward; Also manumitting any future children |
|
Denwiddle, Wm |
Bob |
K |
79 |
123 |
|
|
|
| Dinwiddie, William | Annica | O | 57 | 07/03/1848 | Emancipated by will of William Dinwiddie; Description: Black complexion; Scar back of head size of half dollar; 4'4" in height | ||
|
Ellis, Karratis L. |
Barlow, William |
K |
227 |
255 |
10/17/1833 |
|
15 yrs. of age the 20th of February last, bound out to Karatis L. Ellis to learn the trade of Blacksmith, Discharge court order book L page 25 |
|
Fleming, Peter |
Dinah |
D |
152 |
|
09/04/1809 |
09/04/1809 |
Age 30 years |
|
Foreman, John (Deceased) |
Asher |
F |
373 |
|
07/03/1820 |
07/03/1820 |
Set free at the age of 21 years and proof being made that he has attained that age is set free. |
|
Foreman, Mary |
Clear or Chloe |
D |
460 |
|
01/06/1812 |
01/06/1812 |
Name unclear, top portion appears to say "Clear" but bottom portion list it as Chloe |
|
Free Born |
Dorcas Talbot, daughter of Dinah (emancipated by Wm Talbot) |
K |
291 |
|
11/04/1833 |
|
Dinah: bright copper color, 5' 2" high; Dorcas: same color as her mother |
|
Free Born |
Tucker, Allen |
K |
132 |
|
01/07/1833 |
|
Age 22 yrs.; certified and sworn to being born free by Wm Allen |
|
Free Born |
Jenny |
K |
301 |
|
12/02/1833 |
|
Born May 1825, daughter of Abie Gril? |
|
Free Born |
Jesse Henry |
K |
301 |
|
12/02/1833 |
|
Born April 1829, son of Abie Gril? |
|
Free Born |
Levi Haden, Alfred Haden & Julian Haden (children of Chloe emancipated by Robert Lucky) |
K |
425 |
|
11/03/1834 |
|
Levi, Alfred & Julian Haden children of Chloe; Levi: age 26 yrs, 6' 2 1/4" tall, scar on back of left hand, slender make, dark complexion |
|
Garrard, William (Paris, KY) |
Rachel |
F |
419 |
|
03/05/1821 |
03/05/1821 |
Age 19 years, a gift from the Will of ? Carter given to Susan Garrard late Susan Peers, wife of William Garrard |
|
Garrard |
Laura Hensley |
F |
436 |
|
|
|
|
|
Gibson, Saml |
Rachel |
C |
136, 137 |
|
09/15/1800 |
1807 |
Age 18; To be freed at age 25 in the year of 1807 |
|
Giltner, John |
Jeremiah |
K |
165 |
105 |
05/06/1830 |
05/06/1830 |
See Deeds of Manumissions |
|
Grafforte, Thos Exec. |
Peter, Hedgeman, Jesse & George |
K |
89 |
|
10/1/1832 |
10/1/1832 |
See Deeds of Manumissions |
|
Grafforte, Thos Exec. |
Wesley & Hannah |
K |
91 |
|
10/1/1832 |
10/1/1832 |
See Deeds of Manumissions |
|
Grafforte, Thos Exec. |
Amy |
K |
87 |
|
10/1/1832 |
10/1/1832 |
See Deeds of Manumissions |
|
Hall, Jesse |
Lewis |
K |
139 |
246 |
02/04/1833 |
02/04/1833 |
Age 14 yrs., with permission from his mother to be bound out to Jesse Hall for 5 years |
|
Harcourt, John |
Hampton |
F |
50 |
|
01/06/1817 |
01/06/1817 |
Security Bond set for $100 |
|
Henderson, Samuel |
Derry |
D |
16, 17 |
|
04/18/1808 |
04/18/1808 |
Age 35 |
|
Henderson, William |
Jerry |
K |
398 |
117 |
09/01/1834 |
09/01/1834 |
|
|
Hickman, Alexander |
Sally Hickman (his wife) |
E |
246 |
|
06/06/1814 |
06/06/1814 |
my wife Sally Hickman a coloured woman"; purchased from John Lathram |
|
Hickman, William |
Alexander |
C |
669 |
|
04/20/1807 |
04/20/1807 |
Age between 20 and 30 yrs. |
|
Hill, Jesse |
Harry |
C |
388 |
|
03/19/1804 |
03/19/1804 |
Being convinced of the injustice of holding in the state of slavery a fellow creature, I do hereby emancipate" |
|
Hilt, Martin |
Solomon |
C |
716 |
|
01/00/1808 |
12/24/1802 |
|
|
Hilt, Martin |
Benjamin & Hannah |
E |
177 |
|
02/01/1811 |
02/01/1811 |
Security Bond set at $500 |
|
Hilt, Martin |
Winney |
C |
254 |
|
04/10/1802 |
04/10/1802 |
being convinced of the injustice of holding in a state of slavery our fellow creatures I do hereby emancipate or set free a black woman by the name of Winney" |
|
Houston, James |
Bob |
C |
247 |
|
02/15/1802 |
02/15/1806 |
Age "almost seventeen"; to be set free at age of maturity on Feb. 15, 1806 |
|
Houston, Peter |
Alice |
C |
247 |
|
02/15/1802 |
01/01/1807 |
Age 16, to be set free at the age of maturity Jan. 1, 1807 |
|
Howard, Elijah |
Jacob (last name illedgable possibly ?ines) |
K |
426 |
|
11/05/1834 |
|
Was liberated by Elijah Howard Age 25 years, small scar on upper lip, 5' 8 1/4" tall |
|
Howard, Elijah & Elizabeth |
Jacob |
D |
507, 508 |
|
06/01/1812 |
09/12/1834 |
Age 2 yrs., 8 months, 18 days; born 09/12/1809; to be manumitted at age 25 on date of 09/12/1834 |
|
Howard, James |
Anthony |
D |
339 |
|
01/07/1811 |
01/07/1811 |
About 42 yrs. old; been in the possession of Howard for 13 yrs. |
|
Hughes, Robert |
George |
E |
75 |
|
07/05/1813 |
07/05/1813 |
Age 43 yrs. |
|
Irvine, Joshua Admin. (Henry Batterton Admin.) |
Willie Batterton |
K |
398 |
|
4/21/1834 |
|
See Deeds of Manumission |
|
Jones, Alice |
Robert |
D |
162 |
|
09/00/1811 |
07/24/1800 |
Age 3 years; Produced in court September 1809 states originally produced in 07/24/1800 but not recorded. |
|
Lander, Charles |
Elijah, Charlotte, Daniel & David |
K |
257 & 268 |
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10/08/ |