===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: [email protected] From: Sandi Gorin <[email protected]> Subject: [KYRESEARCH] TIP #687 - THE LUNATICS, IDIOTS, DEAF & DUN, I still do not have my computer back but was able to retrieve the next tip. Thanks for your patience! I have an older version of my email program on this system and it does not allow font size changes. Thus - this might come out with some large fonts or other oddities! Sandi TIP #687 ñ THE LUNATICS, IDIOTS, DEAF & DUMB, INDIGENT & SLAVES Approved by the Kentucky General Assembly. Again, this is not a complete list. A lunatic does not necessarily refer to a person who is insane, but can refer to a person who is senile or born afflicted. LUNACY/IDIOT: BARNES, Polly, Lunatic, Fayette, 28 Jan 1841. Josh S. Fisher was her committee, she housed at the asylum at Lexington. BROADY, Elizabeth, lunatic, Barren, 6 Feb 1837. As soon as a committee appointed and report issued that she is a lunatic, $50 a year to be paid by the Treasury for her maintenance, allowed to live with her relations. BROUN, Fielding, Lunatic, Unknown, 23 Jan 1837. Randol Walker his committee; Fielding was in the Lunatic Hospital at Lexington DULIN, Nancy, Idiot, Spencer, 25 Jan 1833. Petition to sell land descended to her from her father, Edward Dulin which she owns; she the granddaughter of Thaddeus Dulin who lived in Fayette Co. ELKINS, Delila, of unsound mind, Green, 16 Feb 1837. Her father, David Elkins, her committee. ELLIS, Polly, Idiot, Perry, 28 Jan 1841. Robert Pace was her committee and as paid from 15 Oct 1839 to 15 Oct 1840 for supporting her. ELLIS, Samuel, Idiot, Perry, 28 Jan 1841. Same EVANS, Rebecca, lunatic, Morgan, 14 Feb 1839. No committee specified, resident of the Lunatic Asylum GOODWIN, Mary, lunatic, Barren, 22 Dec 1832. Widow of Thomas, petition to sell lands to provide for her. GREEN, William, lunatic, Boone, 16 Jan 1833. Request for a committee to take care of his estate. His wife was Mary Green who was appointed his committee along with Jeremiah Garnett. KIMES, John, Idiot, Bourbon, 17 Jan 1839. Mary Kimes keeping same from 1829-15 June 1838. MONTAGUE, Juliann, lunacy, Owen, 12 Feb 1841. Lyman Martin was committee, support for. OAKLEY, America, idiot, Unknown, 12 Feb 1841. Edmund Oakley was committee, support for. RILEY, Lydia, Scott, 16 Feb 1841. Taylor Noel was her committee, she also a pauper SLAVE, Female, lunatic, Bracken, 22 Jan 1833. Was a run-away and jailed in Bracken Co. But it was discovered that she had become a lunatic and didnít even know her own name. The jailer didnít know what to do with her, they didnít have facilities to take care of her. Jailer was given money to take care of her. SMITH, Morrison W, lunatic, Harrison, 28 Feb 1841. He noted as a lunatic and lives at the Lunatic Asylum; had a wife and one child, quite an infant, owned land. SUBER, Henry, Idiot, Pulaski, 17 Feb 1837. Andrew Surber his committee. WALLER, Maria, Idiot, Union, 1 Feb 1839. John Waller her committee, she d/o Thomas Waller, owns land, request to sell. WILLETT, Cornelius F, lunatic, Spencer, 14 Jan 1833. Petition to sell land; he the son of Griffith Willett. WILSON, Mrs. Miram, lunatic and pauper, Pulaski, 29 Jan 1841. In an institution, Levi Cooper cited. YANCY, Thomas I, Bourbon, 22 Dec 1831. ìWhereas it appears that Thomas I Yancey, of Bourbon county, is a lunatic, and is totally incapable of bestowing a proper attention to this family, or to his pecuniary concerns; and whereas, it is represented that said Thomas I. Yancey has a wife (Ann D Yancey) and five small children, and is also possessed of several valuable slaves, but owns no land in the Commonwealth, and his wife and children are without a home; and whereas, James Simms is the committee of said Thomas I Yancey Ö. ì She allowed to sell three of the slaves and use the money to purchase a house and piece of land. . DEAF & DUMB: ORR, Andrew & Caroline, Garrard, 6 Feb 1839. Children of John Orr, placement free of charge at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Danville. INDIGENT: HIX, Tabitha, Pulaski, 20 Feb 1839. ìA poor person, aged and helpless, entirely incapable of labor, county refuses to care for her except at the poor house. She unwilling to be moved there, wants to remain with her friends and relatives. Legislature allows $50 a year for her comfortable support and maintenance and she will be allowed to be kept and provided for by her friend. EMANCIPATION: CONWAY: John Griffin, guardian of heirs of John Conway Jr request to sell a Negro woman belonging to the estate who is ungovernable in her disposition. 1 Feb 1839. HACKLEY: For benefit of Lucy and John Hackley, Unknown, 8 Jan 1831. ìWhereas, George Hackley, a free man of color died possessed of both real and personal estate, leaving a wife, Lucy Hackley, a free woman of color, and his son John, who was the slave of the said George when he died, but was intended to be emancipated by his father, George; And, whereas, doubts exist whether there was such marriage between the said George and Lucy, as would entitle her to dower in the estate of said George: Therefore, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that the said John Hackley shall be, and is hereby declared to be emancipated and made free, subject, however, to the claims of any creditor of said George Hackley, in the same manner as if this act had not passed. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the balance of the real and personal estate, of the said George Hackley, subject to the debts of said George, shall vest in the said Lucy, during her natural life, and after her death, shall pass and go to the said John, the son of George and Lucy. Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall release the said Lucy and John from administering upon the estate, or being liable and sueable in the same manner, as heirs at law are, for the debts of said George .î SELF: John C Selfís administrator to sell a Negro man slave which descended to his heirs; was sold by Franklin Bowles who intermarried with the widow of Self. Slave had repeatedly attempted to runaway. 28 Jan 1839. © Copyright 17 April 2008, Sandra K. 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