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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-0001-004-0084 BR8-126

Nathan Bibb (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, livery man) N00006638 1800? Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, livery man. Kentucky native. Married to Patience Bibb. Father of Patience A. Bibb. Livery man in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Social: George Washington Dupee (Lexington, Kentucky, free black Baptist pastor) Social: General Douglas (Lexington, Kentucky) Social: Emily (African American in Lexington, Fayette County)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 4, p. 529. General Douglas (Lexington, Kentucky) N00006639 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Mentioned in a petition to remit bond in Fayette County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Social: Emily (African American in Lexington, Fayette County)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Ohio, Greene County, Xenia, p. 341B. KYR-0001-004-0085. Emily (African American in Lexington, Fayette County) N00006637 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, resident. Mentioned in a petition from Nathan Bibbs and General Douglass to Thomas Bramlette, 1863.

Relationships Legal: General Douglas (Lexington, Kentucky) Legal: Nathan Bibb (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, livery man) Economic: General Douglas (Lexington, Kentucky) Economic: Nathan Bibb (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, livery man)

KYR-0001-004-0084 Charles Scott Todd Bodley (Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff) N00004806 1823 1869 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Frances Price Curd Bodley. Father of Eleanor H. Bodley, Catherine S. Bodley, and Ann R. Bodley. Bookseller in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Bookseller in Fayette County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Hired one additional enslaved person in Fayette County in 1860. Sheriff of Fayette County from 1862 to 1863.

Relationships Social: Henry Gilbert (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and butcher)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 127B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 559. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 456B. 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), 87. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Fayette County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 3. "Charles Scott Todd Bodley (1823-1869)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100460727, accessed April 26, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100460727. William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) N00006117 1824? Categories: People

Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney. Indiana native. Married to Lucy Ann Embry Downey in Madison County, Kentucky on May 18, 1845. Father of Mary E. Downey. Married to Emily Jane Robinson Burbridge Downey in Scott County on January 28, 1858. Father of Willie H. Downey and Minna "Minnie" Shreve Downey. Attorney in Clark County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Commonwealth's attorney for the Thirteenth Judicial District from 1860 to 1866. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Legal: General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Legal: Bourbon Circuit Court Legal: Madison Circuit Court Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Legal: William L. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Social: David Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, hack driver and dray man) Legal: Clark Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark, Winchester, p. 41B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark, Winchester, p. 307. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark, Winchester, p. 871. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark, Winchester, p. 346A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Madison County Marriages, Film 000183302. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film 000183225. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. 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. William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge) N00005270 1805-10-07 1870-08-14 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, judge. Kentucky native. Son of William Goodloe and Susan Woods Goodloe. Married to Almira Owsley Goodloe. Father of Archibald Henry Goodloe and Mary Goodloe. Circuit judge of the 13th Judicial District in Fayette and Madison Counties from 1859 to 1862.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: Charles F. Lowry (Fayette County, Kentucky merchant and deputy clerk) Legal: Francis M. Searcy (Madison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Madison Circuit Court Economic: Madison Circuit Court Social: Woods Caperton (Madison County, KY, attorney) Legal: William S. Taylor (Madison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah K. Howard (Madison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: James Bennett McCreary (Madison County, KY, attorney&major & Lt col in 11th KY Cav CSA, POW) Legal: Madison County Court Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Social: Jesse J. Hunt (Fayette County, Kentucky, merchant and clerk. ) Social: James B. Beck (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Fayette County, Kentucky, lawyer, slaveholder, and colonel of 9th KY Cav (CSA))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Division 1, p. 376. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 304. 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), 304. 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), 299. 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. Fayette County, Kentucky P001031 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lexington.

38.0406, -84.5037 "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 99. Fayette Circuit Court O00000377 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): John B. Norton.

Relationships Legal: John C. Cable (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Charles Scott Todd Bodley (Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff) Legal: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) Legal: George Washington Brand (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer and bank director) Economic: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Harrison Keith (Plymouth, Massachussetts, salesman and soldier (U.S.A.)) Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge)

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. 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. Petition English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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Petitioners ^Nathan Bibb. General Douglas &^ state that at the June term 1863 of the Fayette Circuit Court the a bail bond executed by then as sureties of Emily who was indicted for larcey. They immediately after hearing that Emily had failed to attend had her arrested & delivered to the sheriffof Fayette Co who put her in jail. At the August term 1863, on the first day of court a judgment was entered against then without the knowledge of their counsel, who after it was entered ^& at same term^ moved to set aside the judg under the provisions of sec criminal code, Said motion was overruled by the court as it was made too late. As they delivered the prisoner to the sheriff as soon as they learned she had forfeited her bond they pray your Excellency to remit said judgment.

The foregoing statements are substantially true, and as there seems to have been a mistake if it can be propely done, I hope your Excellency will remit-

W. S Downey Com atty W C Goodloe

I recommend the remission of the judgt of Aug Term 1863 of Comth of Ky against for $50 forfeited bail bond of Emily as they surrendered her to the shef of Fayette Co.

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Fayette Cir Ct vs Nathan, Bibb & other $50 --

Remit the forfeiture there being no judgt this whole case be remitted

T E Bramlette 12th Sept/63