Barden, Gilbert (see also Borden, Gilbert)

Jacob Barkman held several public offices. He served on the first Clark County grand jury in 1819 and at least the first term of the Clark County Court was held at his house. Also in 1819 he was elected to the Legislative Council from Clark County, and served as its President in 1825. In 1820 he was appointed the Clark County Postmaster. He also served as Judge of the Clark County Court of Common Pleas in 1820 and was licensed as a retailer in Clark County, Ark. Gaz. June 17, 1820. The Court of Common Pleas held at his house in Campbell v. Izard (1831); Summoned for grand jury duty in 1809 Grand Jury Venire; summoned for grand jury duty in   April 1811 Grand Jury Venire; summoned for grand jury duty in July 1811 Grand Jury Venire; summoned for grand jury duty in November 1812 Grand Jury Venire; April 1814 Grand Jury Venire; juror in Demoss v. Montgomery (1824);

Brother of Frederick and Edward Bates of Missouri (Edward held various offices including Attorney General of the United States under President Lincoln). Bates was a land agent and law partner with Robert Crittenden. In 1819 he became the Judge of 1st Circuit , which held its first term at the Arkansas Post in November 1819. In the fall of November 1819, he was elected the first Arkansan delegate to Congress, transferring his clients to Crittenden (Ark. Gaz. Dec. 18, 1819 and Herndon, p. 156). He settled in Napoleon (later Batesville), was admitted to the bar in Clark County, June 1819, and later served as a judge in Arkansas County. In the judicial Scott-Selden duel of 1824, he was Judge Selden's second. He was appointed to the Superior Court by President Adams in 1828. The town of Batesville is named for him; Judge of the Circuit Court, which included Independence County in Allen v. Allen (1827); Superior Court judge during the libel case between Robert Crittenden and William Woodruff; apparently annoyed by Crittenden's absence from the state while he was acting as Governor, Bates wrote a letter under a pseudonym to the Arkansas Gazette, protesting Crittenden's absence and negligence, see Crittenden v. Woodruff (1827); presiding judge in Phillips County Circuit Court in Reece v. Johnson (1826); Blakely v. Biscoe (1828); presided over the Crittenden County Circuit Court in Grande v. Fooy (1829); Cocke v. Henson (1830); judge who issued a writ of error in Davis v. Crittenden (1831); presiding judge in Arkansas County Circuit Court in Scull v. Roane (1831); witnessed the execution of a post master's bond in Post Master General of the United States v. Hornor, Phillips, and Strong (1831); presiding judge in St. Francis Circuit Court in Patterson v. Hill (1831); presided over lawsuit in Campbell, Patterson, & Horner v. Izard (1831); judge in Jenkins v. James (1832);

An early settler of Poke Bayou (today Batesville); see www.mybatesville.org/about=history.htm; appointed Independence County common pleas judge in 1820 (19 Terr. Pap. 790). Representative for Independence County in 1821; owed money to the partnership of William Drope and John Miller in Drope v. Miller (1826); drawee of note in Griffing v. Noaks (1829);

The stepson of Dr. Matthew Cunningham, he apprenticed to William Woodruff and worked on the Arkansas Gazette from around 1824 until 1829, after which he founded the Arkansas Advocate, a paper that became a bitter rival to William Woodruff's Arkansas Gazette. Served as deputy clerk of the Superior Court; witnessed Henry W. Conway's bail bond in Paxton v. Conway (1827); stepson of Dr. Matthew Cunningham; apprentice in the Arkansas Gazette office during the libel suit between Robert Cunningham and William E. Woodruff, see Crittenden v. Woodruff (1827); deputy clerk in Montgomery v. Clark (1828); Bentley v. Johnson (1832);

Juror in Schlesinger & Gillett v. Jeffrey (1822); juror and foreman of the jury in U.S. v. McCraney murder trial; found McCraney not guilty, see United States v. McCraney (1822); surety for James Billingsley's appeal bond in Billingsley v. Bell (1824);

Abraham Block was the first known Jewish settler in Arkansas. He settled in Washington Township in Hempstead County in 1823 and became a businessman. For more information, see (See Encyclopedia of Arkansas); paid fees for appearing as a witness in Mirick v. Hemphill (1832); on bond in Clark v. Shelton (1833);

One of the speculators involved in the founding of Little Rock, Blount bought a certificate for a preemption claim to Little Rock from Wright Daniels, who had bought it from Elisha White, who had bought it from William Lewis in 1814. Blount sold the certificate to Benjamin Murphy (Herndon, p. 820); Moseley v. Murphy (1814); security for McElmurray's appeal bond in Murphy v. McElmurry (1822); surety for Tindall's appeal bond in Murphy v. Tindall (1822); deputy marshall in United States v. McCraney (1822); sued Johnathan Hampton alleging that Hampton had made a promissory note payable to Benjamin Murphy which Murphy had then transferred to Blount in Blount v. Hampton (1823); called as a witness in Russell v. Hogan (1823); Russell v. McElmurry (1828); witnessed the execution of the promissory note in Russell v. Tindall (1828), and was later subpoenaed to testify on Tindall's behalf; juror who found for David Earheart on a debt in Earheart v. Murphy & McCall (1830); witness in Bolinger v. Smith (1835);

Bonne was a hunter based at Arkansas Post in the 1790's, Whayne 126. He appeared as a witness for the United States in United States v. Osages (1824), and in 1826, he was recommended as an interpreter for the Quapaws, 20 Terr. Papers 263.

Administrator of Basil Boran's estate; an injunction was issued against the execution of Basil Boran's judgment; challenged the injunction, but ultimately agreed to dismiss the suit in Musick v. Rice & Boran (1825);

A leading merchant at Arkansas Post, a resident since the late 1780s. Originally from French Illinois. Whayne 100 et seq. Summoned for grand jury duty in 1809 Grand Jury Venire, summoned for grand jury duty in  April 1811 Grand Jury Venire,  summoned for grand jury duty in December 1811 Grand Jury Venire, summoned for grand jury duty in March 1812 Grand Jury Venire, summoned for grand jury duty in August 1812 Grand Jury Venire, September 1814 Grand Jury Venire; March 1815 Grand Jury Venire; April 1815 Grand Jury Venire; served on jury that acquitted Robert C. Oden for accepting a challenge to a duel from William O. Allen in 1820; agent for Drope in Drope v. Miller (1826); Served on grand jury that indicted Robert C. Oden for challenging Chester Ashley to a duel in U.S. v. Oden (1827);

Summoned for grand jury duty in July 1811 Grand Jury Venire; March 1815 Grand Jury Venire; Summoned for grand jury duty in April 1815 Grand Jury Venire;

Judge of General Court of the County of Arkansas, 1814-1819; common law attorney from Ste. Genevieve, first professional lawyer ever to sit on an Arkansas bench. Left Arkansas after court abolished in 1819 (Arnold, p. 174-175, 229n); Presided over the Court of Quarter Sessions for the District of New Madrid in Grand Jury Writ of Venire for August 1812; judge in General Court in Michel v. Wallis (1812); Hudsel v. Bunch (1812); Smith v. Hudsel (1812); Phillips v. Peeler (1812); September 1814 Grand Jury Venire; Moseley v. Murphy (1814); Glass v. Dean (1814); Haden v. Clary (1814);  judge in General Court in Wallis v. Cassidy (1814);  judge in General Court in April 1815 Grand Jury Venire;  judge in General Court in  U.S. v. Glass & Glass (1815); March 1815 Grand Jury Venire;