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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-0001-004-0185 BR8-295

New Castle, Henry 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. Virginia Payne (Henry County, KY, resident) N00003007 1797-03-10 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Married to P. G. Payne. Resident of Henry County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons, including Tom, in Henry County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: T. J. Owens (New Castle, Kentucky, druggist) Slavery: Tom [Unknown] (Henry County, KY, enslaved person) Legal: Henry Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 88. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 18. Find A Grave, "Virginia Payne (1797-1864)," Memorial #74523170, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74523170 (accessed April 6, 2018). T. J. Owens (New Castle, Kentucky, druggist) N00003008 1830? Categories: People

New Castle, Kentucky, druggist. Kentucky native. Son of L. F. Owens. Druggist in New Castle in 1860. Hired out Tom, enslaved man of Virginia Payne, in Henry County, Kentucky, from March 1862 to March 1863.

Relationships Familial: Virginia Payne (Henry County, KY, resident) Economic: Tom [Unknown] (Henry County, KY, enslaved person) Slavery: Tom [Unknown] (Henry County, KY, enslaved person) Legal: Henry Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 5. KYR-0001-004-0186. New Castle, Kentucky P00000305 Categories: Places

Seat of Henry County, Kentucky.

38.4334, -85.1697 "New Castle, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987), 212. 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. New Castle, Henry 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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New Castle Oct 7th 63 Gov Bramlette Dr Sir

I send you enclosed the facts in the case of the Comth of Ky vs Mrs V Payne. which embraces I think what you wanted

Yours Respectfully T. J. Owens