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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-0001-004-0280 BR8-444

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. Ed [unknown] (Enslaved person in Mason County, Kentucky) N00002897 1842? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, enslaved person. Enslaved by Samuel W. Wood in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1860. Hired out to Nathaniel Oldham in Mason County in 1863.

Relationships Slavery: Samuel W. Wood (Mason County, Kentucky, city collector) Economic: Peter Miller (Maysville, Kentucky, coffee house owner) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Slavery: Nathaniel Oldham (Mason County, Kentucky, barber) Social: Peter Miller (Maysville, Kentucky, coffee house owner)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason, Maysville, p. 5A. KYR-0001-004-0178. Samuel W. Wood (Mason County, Kentucky, city collector) N00002898 1800? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, city collector. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret L. Wheatley on July 30, 1830, in Mason County, Kentucky. Married to Mary A. Hull. Father of Henry Dorsey Wood and Amelia Bassett Wood. Magistrate in Mason County in 1850. City collector in Mason County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Mason Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 47B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 360. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 5A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film #000281842. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994084, Mason County Births, p. 7. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #31288. Nathaniel Oldham (Mason County, Kentucky, barber) N00002900 1820? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, barber. Kentucky native. Married to Angeline Oldham. Father of Nathaniel Oldham. Barber in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1850. Barber in Mason County in 1860. Employed Thomas Mason as an apprentice barber in Mason County in 1860. Hired Ed [Unknown] as an enslaved man from Samuel W. Wood in 1863.

Relationships Economic: Ed [unknown] (Enslaved person in Mason County, Kentucky) Economic: Peter Miller (Maysville, Kentucky, coffee house owner) Legal: Mason Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 52A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 363. KYR-0001-004-0280. Peter Miller (Maysville, Kentucky, coffee house owner) N00002896 1824? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, coffee house owner. Native of Germany. Married to Sarah Stevens Miller. Father of Henry Miller, Sarah Miller, Sally Miller, Peter Miller, and Frederick Miller. Laborer in Mason County, Kentucky in 1850. Coffee house owner in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Mason Circuit Court Social: Samuel W. Wood (Mason County, Kentucky, city collector) Social: Ed [unknown] (Enslaved person in Mason County, Kentucky) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 1, p. 30A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 3, p. 341. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #15174. 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/. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Mason Circuit Court O00000426 Categories: Organizations

Circuit court located in the 10th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): E. C. Phister and L. W. Andrews. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): R. H. Stanton and George M. Thomas. Clerk(s): Keith Berry and John M. Duke, Jr.

Relationships Legal: William Carr (Mays Lick, Kentucky, hotel keeper) Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: James Hessen (Maysville, Kentucky, drayman) Legal: Arthur F. Dobyns (Mason County, Kentucky, magistrate) Political: William H. Savage (Mason County, Kentucky, retail clerk and attorney)

“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), 304-305 “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 1863-11-12 Correspondence English 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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Maysville Kentucky November 12th 1863 To his Excellency Gov Bramlette

Dear Sir, At the late term of the Mason Circuit Court, I was fined for selling spiritous liquors to a slave- upon an agreed statement of facts, a copy of which together with a Copy of the judgment I enclose- I have kept a Bar in Maysville for a number of years, and have always endeavored to Comply with the strict letter and Spirit of the law- I knew that I had no right to sell liquor to a slave and always refused to do so without the permission of the master. I knew the boy to whom the liquor in this instance was sold, to be the slave of my neighbor Samuel W Wood, but I knew that he was hired to a free negro barber who also kept a shop a few doors from me, The negro boy Came in with the barber to whom he was hired, and his temporary master told me to let him have a drink of whiskey, and supposing I had a right to do so under this authority I sold the boy a drink for himself and his temporary master. Poliltical excitement was bitter at the time and I was indicted for selling, although S W Wood Cared nothing about the matter, and allthough it was the only drink the boy ever took at my bar -- I respectfully request your excellency to remit so much of the fine as by law you are permitted to do -- as the balance makes a sum as large as I am able to pay

Respectfully Peter Miller

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Mason Cir Ct vs Peter Miller $50 -- Tipling 16th Nov 1863

Remit except fees & costs

Tho E Bramlette