I've been busy typing again, and this one was an interesting challenge! Christopher Tompkins was a very noted Judge of the Circuit Court, respected throughout the state, a Governor candidate, reared many years by the honorable John Breckinridge. With his move to Barren Co and his marriage to Theodosia Logan, he carved out for himself an extremely noteworthy career including being Judge of the Circuit Court. I have published 2 other minute books of the Circuit Court and one Witness book, all written by Richard Garnett, the Circuit Court Clerk for many years. This book covers September 15, 1817 through Sept 18, 1822 and is a compliment book to those above. It is a list of everyone who was sued, who sued or who sat on the Grand Jury during this time frame. As in the other books, sometimes the cases are not explained in detail but with the other books, there is a picture of life in Barren Co during this time. Cases ranged from horse stealing, land and slave distributions, the famous John Hamilton murder trial, lunacy, divorces and most primarily debt. During this time frame KY was undergoing a financial upheaval, bank closings and notes that could not be paid. Businesses were suing businesses, businesses were suing customers who could not pay. Seldom will one find a really "bad guy", altho they are there - most of the people involved were friend or kin and after their cases were heard, sat on the Grand Jury for another case. It is almost a who's who of Barren Co at the time when the county was very small. It appears that every male in the county was sued, sued someone or sat on the Grand Jury. The book is 150 typed pages long, written beautifully by Richard Garnett, sometimes assisted by his brother, John Garnett. Comments are wonderful when some was fined for not showing up for Jury duty or for "razzing" someone during the hearing of the case. Earlier settlers who had moved to other states were often subpoened to appear to give testimony - Alabama, Louisiana, Illinois and the Missourie [sic] Territory along with Indiana Territory. The index is huge, 34 pages with over 10,000 entries. I'm thankful to be done with the book, but it gave me a good history lesson of the area and I included a definitions and abbreviations page along with a write-up on the life of Christopher Tompkins. If you would like to see a copy of the index, write me privately and I'll send it to you as a virus-free Word document attachment. Sandi SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren GGP: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/