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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-0001-004-0159 BR8-250

Louisville, Jefferson 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. Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) N00002938 Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, resident and laundress. Washwoman for Paul Garras in New Haven in 1860. Tutored in sewing by Charlotte VanderEspt in 1861. Enslaved by John "Jack" Dawson in New Haven, Kentucky.

Relationships Slavery: John "Jack" Dawson (Nelson County, KY, farmer) Social: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 129B. KYR-0001-004-0014. John "Jack" Dawson (Nelson County, KY, farmer) N00003058 1800? Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Dawson. Father of William Dawson, Hillery Dawson, Eliza E. Dawson, Cynthia Dawson, Joseph Dawson, and Thomas R. Dawson. Farmer in Nelson County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons (including Cirilla [Unknown]) in Nelson County in 1860.

Relationships Slavery: Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) Social: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Legal: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Economic: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 344B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 211. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 28. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 129B. KYR-0001-004-0014. KYR-0001-004-0017. Charles J. VanderEspt (Louisville, KY, Belgian vice consul, druggist) N00002942 1829-12-09 1883-04-28 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, diplomat and merchant. Native of Belgium. Married to Charlotte VanderSyppe VanderEspt in Nelson County, Kentucky, on December 31, 1860. Father of Annie VanderEspt and Walter VanderEspt. Vice consul to the Kingdom of Belgium in Louisville. Druggist in Louisville in 1858. Druggist in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Social: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Economic: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Political: Kingdom of Belgium Legal: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 499. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 498A. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, 1839-1888, Film #000500448, p. 406 of 603 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). "Chas. Vanderespt Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 29, 1883, p. 8. “Dr. Charles J. Vander Espt (1829-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial 131610172, accessed June 15, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131610172. Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) N00003057 Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, miller. Native of France. Miller at the Shelby Street Mill in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1859. Leased a grist mill from William Carden in Nelson County, Kentucky, from 1860 to 1863. Indicted for larceny in Nelson County in 1861. Millwright in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, in 1863.

Relationships Economic: William Carden (Nelson County, Ky, farmer, miller, and retail dealer) Economic: Anthony Julian (Nelson Co, KY, journeyman carpenter and cook) Economic: Erhard Duplain (Nelson Co., Ky, carpenter) Slavery: Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) Social: Charles J. VanderEspt (Louisville, KY, Belgian vice consul, druggist) Economic: William Dawson (Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper) Economic: John "Jack" Dawson (Nelson County, KY, farmer) Legal: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Legal: James Kirkpatrick (Louisville, Ky, policeman & police chief) Economic: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Social: Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) Legal: William Dawson (Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper) Legal: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Legal: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Economic: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Economic: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Social: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Social: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Legal: Nelson Circuit Court

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, 1839-1888, Film 000500448. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 88. KYR-0001-004-0014. KYR-0001-004-0016. KYR-0001-004-0017. KYR-0001-020-1442. KYR-0001-020-2066. Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) N00004236 1824-04-20 1878-11-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana, attorney, politician, judge, and notary. Pewee Valley, Kentucky, native. Married Jane "Jennie" McMurtry Brown in Henderson County on April 22, 1856. Father of Stuart Brown. Studied law at Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky. Graduate of the University of Louisville. Member of the Democratic Party. Clerk of the Union County Court in Union County. Judge of the Union County Court in Union County. Representative for Union County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1849. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana, from 1858.

Relationships Legal: Charles J. VanderEspt (Louisville, KY, Belgian vice consul, druggist) Legal: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Legal: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Political: Junius Lynch Clemmons (Jefferson County, Kentucky, lawyer. )

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany Ward 2, p. 72. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 591A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 73. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 27. "Jeff. Brown's Body. How it Laid Mouldering in the Canal Until Dredged Out Yesterday," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), February 4, 1879, p. 4. "Jeff. Brown's Memory: The Louisville Bar Meets and Drafts Resolutions of Respect for the Deceased Lawyer," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), February 8, 1879, p. 2 Indiana Archives and Records Administration; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Death Certificates, Floyd County, 1923; Roll: 14, File #32221. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

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

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. 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. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-10-07 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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Louisville 7 Oct. 1863.

Hon Thos E. Bramlett Govenor of Ky. Dear Sir;

I received yours of 10th Septr last. I immediately wrote for, and have since obtained copies of the Indictments as well as the judgments upon which executions issued alluded to in yours. It seems one indictment was for attempting to entice away the negro girl Sarilla, and the other was for stealing her apparl jewelry &c, all belonging to the said girl, tho the indictment it was the property of John Dawson, which is not true as it was the property of the negro girl. You will find a letter to this effect of C. J. VanderEspt, who was living there at the time, and whose testimony would have exonerated Garis.

I am in hopes you will send a full remission of the Judgments. The parties are poor and very needy, and if compelled to pay even half of it would bring a perfect ruin upon them.

Yours Very Respy, Jeff Brown.