Legal/Financial

Thomas E. Bramlette, Agent, William Hipwell

1865-10-13

Date of Creation
October 13, 1865
Place of Creation
Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR6-118
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-006-0093
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206496
People
Winkle, Ephraim L. Van
Prentice, George Dennison
Page, James R.
Skiffington, Matthew
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
Hipwell, William
Thomas, William K.
Places
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
State of Illinois
Dates
1865-10-13
1865-10-21
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Thomas E. Bramlette, Agent, William Hipwell, 1865-10-13, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-006-0093 (November 12, 2026).

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IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY,
{KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}
THOMAS E. BRAMLETTE,
GOVERNOR OF SAID COMMONWEALTH.
TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:

Know Ye, That reposing especial trust and confidence in the integrity, diligence, and ability of Wm Hipwell, I do hereby appoint him Agent, On the part of this State, to proceed to the State of Illinois for the purpose of demanding and receiving from the proper authorities of said state, Mathew FSkifington, a Fugitive from Justice from the State of Kentucky, charged with Felony; and I do hereby authorize and direct the said Wm Hipwell to demand and receive the said Fugitive, bring him to this State, and deliver him to the custody of the Jailer of the County of Jefferson Ky

{SEAL OF KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed. Done at Frankfort, the 13th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-5, and in the seventy-fourth year of the Commonwealth.

Tho E Bramlette
By the Governor: E. L. VanWinkle, Secretary of State.
By Jas R. Page
Asst Secty
GEORGE D. PRENTICE, STATE PRINTER.

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Louisville October 21st 1865

This is to certify that this Day William Hipwell Delivered to me the person of Mathew Skiffington herein mentioned

W. K Thomas Jailor
of Jefferson County Ky