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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-0001-004-0063 BR8-94 to BR8-95

Isaac Sutton (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, mineral water maker and business owner) N00005619 1818? Categories: People

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, mineral water maker and business owner. Native of England. Married to Rosanna Sutton. Mineral water maker in Covington in 1860. Owned Sutton I & Co., manufacturers of mineral water, ginger pop, champagne cider, in Covington in 1861 in partnership with Albert G. Thompson.

Relationships Legal: J.H. Meyers (Kenton County, Kentucky, brewer) Legal: James Steers (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, teamster) Legal: William W. Rogers (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, master brick mason) Legal: Michael Moore (Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, contractor ) Legal: John O'Donnell (Covington, Ky, merchant) Legal: John Buckner Lendrum (Covington, Ky, justice of the peace, mayor pro tem, and bookkeeper) Legal: John Herold (Covington, Kentucky, carding machinist) Legal: James G. Arnold (Kenton County, Ky, merchant) Legal: John Wesner (Ludlow, Kenton County, Kentucky, shoe maker) Legal: Moses Swim (Covington, Kenton County, carpenter) Legal: Peter Longshore (Covington, Ky, medicine maker, teamster) Legal: Joseph Doniphan (Bracken County, Ky, circuit judge, state rep, mayor, and attorney ) Legal: Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) Legal: Charles J. Taylor (Kenton County, Kentucky, clerk) Legal: James Ayars, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, insurance agent and county court clerk) Legal: C. A. Preston (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and mayor) Economic: C. A. Preston (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and mayor) Political: C. A. Preston (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and mayor) Legal: Kenton County Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, Ward 4, p. 156. Williams' Cincinnati Directory City Guide and Business Mirror, Together with Directories of the Cities of Covington and Newport, KY., for 1861 (Cincinnati: C.W. Williams, 1861), 444. Joseph Doniphan (Bracken County, Ky, circuit judge, state rep, mayor, and attorney ) N00005620 1823-08-19 1873-05-02 Categories: People

Augusta, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and judge. Augusta native. Son of George Doniphan and Mary Doniphan. Married to Elizabeth A. Ward Doniphan on December 16, 1856. Father of Mary S. Doniphan, George Doniphan, and Christina Doniphan. Attended Augusta College in Augusta. Clerk employed by George Doniphan from 1839 to 1842. Admitted to the bar in 1848. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1849 to 1851. Attorney in Bracken County in 1850. Mayor of Augusta from 1852 to 1854. Attorney in Bracken County in 1860. Mayor of Augusta from 1860 to 1862. Judge of the 9th judicial district of Kentucky from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Legal: Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) Legal: Bracken County Court Legal: Bracken Circuit Court Political: Bracken Circuit Court Legal: Harrison Circuit Court Social: Joseph McCollum (Bracken County, Kentucky, resident and sergeant in 16th Regiment Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.)) Social: Benjamin F. Nelson (Lewis County, Kentucky, farmer and 1st sergeant in 16th Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.)) Legal: Pendleton Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 452A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, Augusta, p. 24. "Joseph Doniphan" in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 278. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1877), 772. Find A Grave, "Joseph Doniphan (1823-1873)," Memorial #114273737, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114273737 (accessed November 29, 2018). Robert Carter Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction) N00002561 1826-05-18 1896-06-28 Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and superintendent of public instruction. Louisville, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Q. Richardson and Mary H. Harrison Richardson. Married to Mariah Louisa Harris Richardson on April 18, 1859. Father of Carter Richardson, Henry Richardson, Robert Richardson, and Mary Richardson. Graduate of Transylvania University in 1846. Served in General Humphrey Marshall's 1st Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private and sergeant in the Mexican-American War. Attended law school in Lexington in 1848. Moved to Covington and opened a law practice. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Kenton County, Kentucky, from 1855 to 1859. Superintendent of public instruction for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Member of the Border State Convention in 1861. Notary public in Kenton County in 1864.

Relationships Social: Lewis Richardson (Covington, Kentucky, teacher, soldier, and justice of the peace) Legal: Joshua Pack (Covington and Grant County) Economic: Kenton County Court Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: William S. Johnston (Covington, Kentucky, resident.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Covington Ward 7, p. 908. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 257A. Kentucky Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-994058, Kenton County Deaths, p. 326. Find A Grave, "Robert Carter Richardson (1826-1896)," Memorial 91638752, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91638752 (accessed March 12, 2020). H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 727-728. J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State (Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Company in 1887), 869-70. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, eds. History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1878), 421. KYR-0001-004-1321. 1863-09-04 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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I am counsel for Mr Isaac Sutton, the petitioner.

It is morally certain to my mind that he failed to pay the $10. State tax on city license, because of ignorance on his part of the law, and without the remotest design to evade it. Accompanying certificates show that he has paid in all the sum of $16567 on a/c of city license

On trial of his case he exhibited his certificates of city license in attestation of

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his good faith, plead that he was ignorant of the law as to county license; and produced also a certificate that he had paid the small amount of this county license soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so. These defenses were adjudged insufficient. The jury were virtually instructed to find against deft.; but his honor Judge Doniphan remarked on the bench the case was one which well merited Executive clemency

R. Richardson Sept. 4, 1863=

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