Just Found Some

Have just discovered a box with several copies of my original book "KEN-TAH-THE" first published in 2009.  The cover is shown here:

If anyone is interested in obtaining a copy please e-mail me at jonesgenealogist@aol.com and I will get back to you with more information.  This blog about historic Danivlle, KY is written from my many years of research into the life and times of Walker Daniel, and the earliest days of Danville.

Court of Appeals for KY 1792

The final listing for the Court of Appeals, and State Representatives:


                                                               Court of Appeals    

                Chief Justice ............................Harry Innes (succeeded by George Muter)

                Judge.........................................Benjamin Sebastian

                Judge.........................................Caleb Wallace

                Clerk..........................................Thomas Todd


                                    United States District Court for District of Kentucky  

                 Judge.........................................Harry Innes

                 Clerk..........................................Thomas Todd,
                                                                       (succeeded by James G. Hunter)

                 District Attorney........................George Nicholas,
                                                                       (succeeded by William Murry)

                 Marshal......................................Samuel McDowell, Junior  


                                                              United States Senators

                                             John Brown                                 John Edwards

                                                          Representatives In Congress    

                                            Christopher Greenup                   Alexander D. Orr

What a list indeed.

State Representatives for KY 1792

This post continues the listing of the first representatives for the State of Kentucky 1792:

Fayette County                                                            Bourbon County         
     William Russell                                                           George M. Bedinger
     John Hawkins                                                              John Waller
     Thomas Lewis                                                             Charles Smith
     Hubbard Taylor                                                           James Smith
     James Trotter                                                             John McKinney
     Joseph Crockett
     James McMillan                                                     Mercer County  
     John McDowell                                                            Samuel Taylor
     Robert Patterson                                                           John Jouett
                                                                                           Jacob Froman
Jefferson County                                                               Robert Mosby
     Richard Taylor
     Robert Breckinridge                                               Madison County  
     Benjamin Roberts                                                          Higgason Grubbs
                                                                                            Thomas Clay
Lincoln County                                                                   John Miller
     William Montgomery
     Henry Pawling                                                        Mason County  
     James Davis                                                                   Alexander D. Orr
     Jesse Cravens                                                                 John Wilson

Nelson County                                                             Woodford County   
     William King                                                                  John Grant
     William Abell                                                                 William Steele
     Matthew Walton                                                             John Watkins
     Edmund Thomas                                                            Richard Young
     Joseph Hobbs
     Joshua Hobbs

Anyone related to any of these folks?  Please leave a comment.

State Senators KY 1792

The last post listed the names of the first officers of Kentucky 1792.  This post will give the list of State Senators for 1792


                                                              STATE SENATORS  

                            Peyton Short ......................................................Fayette County
                            Robert Todd .......................................................Fayette County
                            Alexander S. Bullitt ...........................................Jefferson County
                            John Campbell....................................................Jefferson County
                            John Logan .........................................................Lincoln County
                            John Caldwell ....................................................Nelson County
                            John Allen ..........................................................Bourbon County
                            William McDowell.............................................Mercer County
                            Thomas Kennedy ...............................................Madison County
                            Alexander D. Orr ...............................................Mason County
                            Robert Johnson ..................................................Woodford County

Say hello to these folks, their work had just begun.                      
      

First Officers of KY 1792

Thought it might be of interest to list the very first folks who helped this state to get going.  This list includes the administrative, legislative, and judicial branches of government.  Each branch will be given in a separate post.

Administrative:

                             Governor................................................Isaac Shelby

                             Secretary of State..................................James Brown

                             Attorney-General..................................George Nicholas

                             State Treasure........................................John Logan

                             Auditor..................................................William McDowell

                             Adjutant-General...................................Percival Butler

                             Register of Land Office.........................Baker Ewing

                             Public Printer..........................................John Bradford

                             Speaker of Senate...................................Alexander S. Bullit

                             Speaker of House of Representatives.....Robert Breckinridge

The above names, and those yet to listed are taken from (p. xi - xii) :

Happy Birthday

Earlier this month on the 1st of June, 2017, Kentucky celebrated its 225th birthday.  It was only fitting that this party should happen on the very spot it all began.  "Constitution Square" it has come to be called since the very first constitution of the State was organized and written here.  Over the past several years this blog has given this history discussing the "Ten Pre-State Conventions", the "Acts of Separation", and notes from "The Journal" that was kept by the folks who came up with the final product.  From one of the earliest surveys draw of this "Public Square", it is shown below.

It measured 14 poles 10' 6" wide, and 20 poles 6' 3" in length. [ 1 pole = 16.5 ft ]  What a deal!  Happy 225th Birthday Kentucky from the place it all began.

The Journal (11)

"Friday the 13th day of April 1792"

"The Convention met according to Adjournment"

"Resolved That this Convention do now according to the order of the day resolve itself in a Committee of the whole to take into farther consideration the matters to them referred Mr. Garrard was elected to the Chair and after some time spent The President resumed the Chair and the Chairman reported that the matters to them referred and come to sundry resolutions thereon, which he delivered in at the Clerk's Table where they were twice read, some of them amended & then the whole agreed to as follows viz..."

Thus begins the foundation for the first constitution of the State of Kentucky.  The Journal gives a series of "Resolved" lasting several pages which was then written as the first constitution.  To give you some idea of this document I will give a few of the first resolutions.

"Resolved That the power of Government ought to be divided into three distinct departments each of them to be confided to a seperate body of Magistracy Towit, those which are legislative to one, those which are executive and those which are judiciary to another except such cases as may hereafter be particularly excepted."

"Resolved That the legislative power ought to be vested in a General Assembly to consist of a senate and a house of Representatives."

"Resolved That all free male citizens who have arrived to the age of Twentyone years who have been resident in the State two years or the County in which they offer to vote for one year before, ought to enjoy the right of suffrage but no person shell be entitled to vote but in the County in which he actually resides."

The resolutions continue on the next five pages of the text, and a select Committee was appointed to prepare a formal document which became the Constitution.