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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0019 BR8-29

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. Benjamin Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer & sheriff) N00004701 1823-03-17 1907-10-31 Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Son of John H. Botts. Married to Juliet E. Dorsey Botts. Father of Mary W. Botts, Henry Botts, John H. Botts, Anna Botts, Seth Botts, Amelia Botts, George W. Botts, and Juliet E. Botts. Farmer in Fleming County in 1850. Employed John Warrick as a farmer in Fleming County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1850. Farmer in Fleming County in 1860. Employed Joseph I. Dorsey, Charles Dorsey, and Michael Welch as laborers in Fleming County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860. Sheriff of Fleming County from November 4, 1862, to 1863.

Relationships Political: Fleming County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 274A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 5. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg (District 2), p. 635-36. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 2, p. 8. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, p. 416A. "Benjamin Botts (1823-1907)," Find A Grave, Memorial #74356386, accessed September 3, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74356386. "Juliet E. Dorsey Botts (1823-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #74356430, accessed September 3, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74356430. KYR-0001-004-0019. KYR-0002-009-0021. KYR-0001-031-0040. Grant Green (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, Kentucky Secretary of State, and Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts) N00000466 1826-02-03 1898-07-06 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and auditor. Henderson County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Green and Martha Dixon Green. Married to Catharine "Kitty" Smith Overton Green in Frankfort, Kentucky, on February 28, 1855. Father of Henry D. Green, Eliza O. Green, and Grant Green, Jr. Deputy Sheriff of Henderson County, Kentucky, from 1848 to 1851. Clerk in Henderson County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Henderson County from 1851 to 1852. Attorney in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Auditor of public accounts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1865.

Relationships Social: Thomas Edwin Moore (Pendleton County, Kentucky, clerk and captain 4th KY Cav CSA) Political: John H. McBrayer (Anderson County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Economic: Noah N. Johnson (Webster County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Political: Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts of Kentucky Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Political: William M. Northrip (Russell Co, Ky, farmer and captain (U.S.A.)) Political: Jacob A. Williams (Russell County attorney ) Political: Joseph Elzie Hays (Russell County, Kentucky, attorney and slaveholder. ) Political: William Reynolds (Resident of Mount Vernon, Kentucky) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Cummins (sheriff, rockcastle county) Political: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, District 1, p. 280A-B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 238. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 488B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 96B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Franklin County, KY, July 1863, p. 5. "Grant Green Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 7, 1898, p. 9. “Grant Green (1826-1898),” Find A Grave, Memorial 63467817, accessed May 24, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63467817. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Fleming County, Kentucky P00000542 Categories: Places

County in northeastern Kentucky. Seat at Flemingsburg. Located on the Licking River.

Relationships Military: William Fleming (Fleming County, Kentucky, tanner) Political: William Fleming (Fleming County, Kentucky, tanner)

38.4223, -83.7338 “Fleming County” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p.324-25. "Flemingsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 15, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts of Kentucky O00004702 1792 Categories: Organizations

Agency responsible for auditing the state's general accounts and the accounts of all state agencies and county governments; all private and semiprivate agencies receiving or handling any state funds; and all state revenue collections. The 1850 Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky made the Auditor an elected position, with a four-year term. The Auditor of Public Accounts served as the official accountant, comptroller, and tax collector for the commonwealth. Civil War-era auditors: Grant Green (1859-1863); A. T. Samuels (1863-1867).

Relationships Political: Grant Green (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, Kentucky Secretary of State, and Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts) Legal: Benjamin Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer & sheriff) Economic: Grant Green (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, Kentucky Secretary of State, and Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts) Political: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Political: William Lowndes Harlan (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney) Political: John A. Crittenden (Franklin County Deputy Sheriff)

James Strohmaier, "Auditor of Public Acccounts, Office Of," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed., (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 40. "History," Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts in Kentucky, https://auditor.ky.gov/about/Pages/AuditorsOfficeHistory.aspx (accessed April 24, 2020). Franklin Circuit Court O00000376 Categories: Organizations

Located in the Eighth Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall and George C. Drane. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Patrick U. Major and John L. Scott. Clerk(s): Philip Swigert and Walter R. Franklin.

Relationships Legal: Henry C. Metcalf (Lexington auctioneer) Legal: Joseph Pfeiffer (Franklin County, Kentucky, bar keeper) Legal: Allic Ford (Stamping Ground, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Hockensmith (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Sandford Robertson (Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Legal: Martin J. Sebree (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Benjamin Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer & sheriff) Legal: Andrew J. Banta (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, sheriff, and soldier (CSA)) Legal: Decius C. Priest (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer, constable, and sheriff) Legal: William E. Ashbrook (Covington, Kentucky, sheriff and merchant) Legal: John H. McBrayer (Anderson County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Francis Christopher Catron (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Henry C. Metcalf (Lexington and Nicholasville rope and bagging manufacturer) Legal: Jno B. Payne (Franklin County ) Legal: Grant Green (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, Kentucky Secretary of State, and Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts) Legal: Jacob T. Young (Lyon County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Samuel F. Roberts (Kenton County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Legal: George W. Doneghy (Boyle County, Kentucky, Sheriff) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Legal: Reuben R. Jones (Meade Co, Ky, sheriff and major) Legal: Oliver G. Moore (Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) Legal: Larkin J. Procter (Edmonson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, hotelkeeper, and Mammoth Cave lessee) Legal: Felix Jarboe (Marion County, KY, farmer) Legal: Henry T. Jackson (Marion County, Kentucky, constable and sheriff) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Legal: Samuel P. Alexander (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James J. Long (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Fleming County Court O00000623 Categories: Organizations

Located in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Leonard B. Cox. Clerk(s): William T. Dudley and Joseph Throop.

Relationships Political: Benjamin Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer & sheriff) Legal: Oliver H. Dewey (Fleming County shoemaker and Justice of the Peace)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1863-09 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Auditors office Ky. Frankfort Septr 1863. Govr Bramlette Dear Sir.

The state has a judgment ^by the Franklin Circuit Court,^ against Ben Botts Sheriff of Fleming County, and his Sureties for a balance due upon the revenue of Fleming Co for 1862. of $2073 68/100. principal, $41473 Damages and $7 45/100 costs of Sev't. The sheriff has paid the pricial and costs &c as required by law, and beliveing that his case is one for Executive Clemency, I respectfully ask that you will remit the Damages of $414 73/100.

Respectfully Grant Green Audr

Remit the damages above stated Sept 14th 1863

Tho E Bramlette

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Franklin Cir Ct vs Ben Botts $414.73 damages 14th Sept/63