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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-0001-004-0071 BR8-103

Maysville, Mason 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. Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) N00005226 1824? Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney. Vermont native. Married to Elizabeth A. Carpenter. Father of Julius Carpenter, Mary E. Carpenter, Nellie A. Carpenter, Lillie A. Carpenter, and Nannie R. Carpenter. Attorney in Covington, Kentucky, in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 9th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Investigated for bribery, embezzlement, and failing to appear at court in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Pendleton County Court Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Samuel Thomas Hauser, Sr. (Pendleton County, Kentucky, attorney and county judge) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: Coleman Shaw (farmer) Legal: Thomas Hays (Campbell County resident) Legal: John J. Nelson (Campbell County resident) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Bracken Circuit Court Legal: Thomas J. Terry (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: George Ennis (Harrison County, Ky, resident) Legal: David A. Grimes (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Marquis "Marcus" Lafayette Broadwell (Cynthiana, Ky, judge) Legal: John James McClintock (Harrison County, Ky, farmer and clerk) Legal: Thomas R. Rankin (Harrison County, Ky, hotel keeper) Legal: Joseph B. McClintock (Harrison County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer) Legal: Thomas W. Hedges (Harrison County, Ky, physician ) Legal: George W. Berry (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William G. Courtney (Harrison County, Ky, farm hand) Legal: Benjamin F. Dills (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William A. Hinkson (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Robert Scott Holmes (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Richard J. Levi (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Charles Green Land (Cynthiana, Kentucky, mayor and clerk) Legal: Fleming Cummins (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: James H. Debrular (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Jesse B. Hickman (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William Hutcherson (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: David Dills (Harrison County, Ky, laborer) Legal: Thomas A. Rankin (Harrison County farmer) Social: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: George Sidle (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Harrison Circuit Court Legal: William W. Trimble (Harrison County Lawyer) Legal: Lorenzo Dow Croninger (Covington, Kentucky, master printer) Legal: Thomas T. Sharp (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA) Legal: James W. Steward (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer ) Legal: Elijah Kirtley (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: John VanDeren (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Aaron H. Wheeler (Nicholas + Harrison County, KY, farmer ) Legal: Andrew Jackson Renaker (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.) Legal: Thomas Edwards (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Lewis Veatch (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.) Legal: James T. Smith (Harrison County, Kentucky, cooper.) Legal: William Hutchinson (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Thomas V. Dills (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and slaveholder. ) Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky Political: John Brough (Twenty-sixth Governor of the State of Ohio, newspaper editor, railroad president, and politician.) Legal: Moses Nelson (Preble County, Ohio, carpenter and agent of the State of Ohio.) Legal: Andrew J. Surface (Ohio farmhand and soldier.) Legal: Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 318B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston Ward 2, p. 54A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Kenton County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 40. 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), 301-306. 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), 347-350. Report on the Committee of Circuits on the case of R. B. Carpenter, Esq., Attorney of the Ninth Judicial District, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865). Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) N00006559 1826? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky merchant. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Jane Newell on November 15, 1849. Father of William Nelson, Jennie E. Nelson, and Simon Nelson. Store keeper in Maysville in 1850. Merchant in Maysville in 1860 and 1863.

Relationships Social: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Bracken Circuit Court Social: Erastus "Tuce" Lambden (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, saloon keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 106. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 81. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 5, p. 22. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Mason County, Kentucky, October 1863, p. 111, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry,, comp., Marriage Records of Mason County, 1856-1860, Volume VI (Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, c1965), (accessed via ancestry.com). Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) N00005743 1826? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Jane M. Respass. Father of Augustine Respass and Arthur F. Respass.

Relationships Legal: Bracken Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville post office, p. 51. Maysville, Kentucky P00001219 Categories: Places

Seat of Mason County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6412, -83.7444 Jean W. Calvert, "Maysville" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 621-22. " Maysville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Bracken County, Kentucky P00000319 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Brooksville, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6826, -84.0658 "Bracken County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 110-111. "Brooksville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 19, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Mason County, Kentucky P00000446 Categories: Places

County in northeast Kentucky. Seat at Maysville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6412, -83.7444 Jean W. Calvert, “Mason County” and “Maysville,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 614, 621-22. "Maysville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Bracken Circuit Court O00000347 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 9th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): S. M. Moore and Joseph Doniphan. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): W. E. Arthur and R. B. Carpenter. Clerk(s): Richard J. Hughey and George B. Poage.

Relationships Legal: William C. Marshall (Bracken County, Kentucky, attorney and Ky state rep) Legal: William D. Ratcliffe (Bracken Co, Ky, tavern keeper & capt 10th Cav USA)

“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), 303-308. “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), 301-306. “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), 347-350. Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky 1863-09-01 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Maysville Ky Sept 1st 63 To His Excellency

The Govener of Kentucky,

Dear Sir. We enclose herewith a petition from Several of the leading and most influential gentlemen of Bracken & Mason Counties among them Mr Carpenter the prosecuting attorney, asking you to remit So much of the fine and penalty, inflicted upon Mr Respess and myself by the Bracken Circuit Court, at its late term, as you have the power to do, your compliance with their request, will be gratefully felt and acknowledge by us,

Your obt servants

Isaac Nelson Thos A Respess By Nelsons