Person:Benjamin Monroe (2)

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Benjamin Monroe, Esq.
b.17 Aug 1790 Albemarle, Virginia, United States
d.24 Mar 1860 Franklin, Kentucky, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1789
  1. Benjamin Monroe, Esq.1790 - 1860
  2. Thomas Bell Monroe, Esq.1791 - 1865
  3. Elizabeth W MonroeAbt 1793 -
  4. Mary K MonroeAbt 1795 -
  5. James MonroeAbt 1800 -
  6. Rachel Piper Monroe1805 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 27 May 1813
  1. Elizabeth Monroe1819 - 1878
  2. Andrew Monroe, Esq.Abt 1821 - 1868
  3. William P Monroe, Esq.1825 - 1851
  4. Jane Monroe1827 - 1852
  5. Mary MonroeAbt 1828 -
  6. Colonel George Wood Monroe1835 - 1869
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Facts and Events
Name Benjamin Monroe, Esq.
Alt Name Judge Ben _____
Gender Male
Birth[3] 17 Aug 1790 Albemarle, Virginia, United States
Residence[3] Abt 1800 Woodford, Kentucky, United Statescame to Kentucky with his parents
Marriage 27 May 1813 Adair, Kentucky, United Statesto Cynthia Montgomery
Residence[3] 1814 Stanford, Lincoln, Kentucky, United Statesage 24 - named town trustee
Occupation[3] 1824 age 34 - appointed circuit court judge for south-central Kentucky
Census? 1840 Adair, Kentucky, United States[1]
Census? 1850 Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, United Statesage 60 -
Death? 24 Mar 1860 Franklin, Kentucky, United States
Burial[2] Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, United States[2]
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Research notes

  • 1849 - elected president of the Kentucky Colonization Society. The group, founded in 1835, attempted to devise a way to end slavery through the gradual emancipation of slaves and their resettlement in Africa, specifically Liberia. 3
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Publications include

  • Ben Monroe, Reports of Cases at Common Law and in Equity, Decided in the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 18 vols. (Frankfort:Printed for the Reporter by W.M. Todd, 1841-1858)
References
  1.   Ford, Bridget. Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland. (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2016)
    230.

    ... "The truth is," said Judge Ben Monroe of Franklin County, President of the Kentucky Colonization Society [in 1849], "we have now no general or special plan upon which we can agree." Monroe, who had served as chair of the "grand committee" to devise the Emancipation Party's platform, feared that the differences over colonization, if aired during the canvass for delegates to the constitutional convention, "would destroy us." The gentlemen of Louisville or Jefferson [County], may be far in advance of us," Monroe warned. But “I am for emancipation with colonization, and not otherwise-nor will I vote for any man or advocate any plan which contemplates emancipation without colonization," he made emphatically clear.
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    [Note per User:Babo: He was therefore advocating freeing the black population of the bondage of slavery but he proposed to send the freed black population away to a pre-chosen place more or less far from the United States. Abraham Lincoln had spoken not less than 8 times of colonization before the Emancipation Proclamation but after the experience gained from the “Ile a Vache” experiment in 1863 when black settlers were sent to an Island near Haiti which resulted in a resounding failure, he had concluded that it was impossible to implement.]

  2. ↑ Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave
    [Includes headstone photo], last accessed Jun 2017.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 The Professional : Ben Monroe (1790-1860), in Metzmeier, Kurt X. Writing the Legal Record: Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky (Kentucky, University Press of Kentucky, 2016)
    Ch 10.

    [includes information about his life and career]

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