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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-0001-004-0337 BR9-38 to BR9-39

Mercer County, Kentucky James Anderson Hunt (Mercer County, Kentucky, physician) N00012381 1808-12-22 1892-01-19 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, physician. Granville County, North Carolina, native. Married to Anna A. Bridges Hunt in Mercer County, Kentucky, on March 19, 1838. Father of Thomas Hunt, John B. Hunt, Mary F. Hunt, Elizabeth D. Hunt, Benjamin B. Hunt, Anna B. Hunt, Edna M. Hunt, and Hannah Hunt. Physician in Mercer County in 1850. Owned two enslaved individuals in Mercer County in 1850. Physician in Mercer County in 1860.

Relationships Social: William V. Trapnall (Mercer County, Kentucky, gentleman) Social: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Social: Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) Social: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Social: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Social: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: John Glover Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, & col Mercer Co militia) Social: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Richard Board (Mercer County KY Circuit Court Clerk)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 275B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 821. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 687. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 582A. Find A Grave, "Dr. James Anderson Hunt (Dec. 22, 1808-Jan. 19, 1892)," Memorial #91975907, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91975907(accessed April 1, 2020). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191856, p. 43. John Glover Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, & col Mercer Co militia) N00002329 1840-04-02 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Andrew G. Kyle and Jane H. Glover Kyle. Educated at Transylvania University and withdrew due to health issues. Studied law in Mercer County in 1860. Graduated from the Law School of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1862. Began law practice in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. Judge of the Harrodsburg Police Court in 1864. Served in the Mercer County Militia as a colonel during the Civil War.

Relationships Legal: John W. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Social: Lorenzo Hobbs Noble (Lebanon, Marion Co, Kentucky, attorney & commonwealth's atty) Social: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Social: James Taylor (Mercer County, KY, attorney) Social: William M. Tomlinson (Mercer County, KY, physician and farmer) Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Economic: Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) Economic: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Economic: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 715. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 687-88. KYR-0001-004-0395. John B. Hunt (Mercer County, Kentucky, law student) N00012382 1842? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, law student. Kentucky Native. Son of James Anderson Hunt and Anna A. Hunt. Law student in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Familial: James Anderson Hunt (Mercer County, Kentucky, physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 687. O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) N00006609 1818? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney. Indiana native. Attorney in Mercer County in 1860. Member of the board of curators of Kentucky University in 1865.

Relationships Social: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Legal: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney) Legal: James Harlan, Jr. (Franklin County/Mercer County Attorney/Politician) Legal: John Shackleford, Jr. (Fayette County, KY, Christian minister, curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: William Logan Williams (Lincoln County, KY, minister, educator, univ curator) Legal: Richard J. White (Madison County, KY, farmer and university curator) Legal: Richard Moore Bishop (Cincinnati, Ohio, merchant, politician, and university curator) Legal: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Legal: John Bryan Bowman (Mercer County, KY, attorney, educator, farmer, college regent) Legal: Abraham Hite Bowman (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: John Augustus Williams (Mercer County, KY, educator, Daughters College, curator KY Univ) Legal: Andrew Steele (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: Benjamin B. Groom (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: William Thomas Moore (Curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: David Williams Thompson (Mercer County, KY, farmer and curator of Kentucky Univ) Legal: Joseph Smith (Fayette County, KY, physician and curator of Kentucky University) Social: Charles Catlett (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: J. Harvey Vanderipe (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and grocer) Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Legal: Nimrod Harris (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Thomas H. Buckner (Mercer County, KY, planter) Legal: John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States 1860, Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 692. KYR-0001-009-0038. James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) N00012383 1808 1875 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney. Virginia native. Married to Susannah H. Withers Hardin in Anderson County, Kentucky, on May 9, 1843. Father of Thomas H. Hardin, Benjamin Hardin, and Mary Hardin. Attorney in Mercer County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1850. Attorney in Mercer County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Vice president at the 5th District Congressional Convention of Kentucky, held at Lebanon, Kentucky, on June 7, 1861.

Relationships Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 273A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 18. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 693. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 47A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Anderson County Marriages, Film #000259309, p. 222. "Fifth District Congressional Convention," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), June 10, 1861, p.3. "James D. Hardin (1808-1975)," Find A Grave, Memorial #100746938, accessed April 1, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100746938. John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) N00003675 1828? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Attorney in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Police Court of Harrodsburg

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 8. "John P. Haggin, Attorney at Law," The Daily Commonwealth (Frankfort, Ky.), March 4, 1854, p. 1. Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) N00000210 1810? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and politician. Virginia native. Married to Malinda Divine Gabbert. Farmer in Mercer County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Farmer in Mercer County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mercer County in 1840, from 1853 to 1855, and from 1861 to 1865.

Relationships Legal: J. R. Rice (Resident of Mercer County, Kentucky) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Social: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Social: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Social: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Social: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Social: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Social: John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator) Social: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Social: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Social: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Social: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Social: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Social: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) Social: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Social: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Social: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Social: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Social: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Social: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Social: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Social: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Social: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Social: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Social: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Social: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Social: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Social: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Social: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Social: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Social: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Social: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Social: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Legal: Andrew Galbraith Kyle (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer; president of Harrodsburg Savings Institution) Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 343B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 899. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 570. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No. 2, p. 42A. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 604. KYR-0001-004-1356. KYR-0362-001-0001. KYR-0001-029-0552. Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) N00005391 1838-08-29 1901 Categories: People

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor. Anderson County, Kentucky, native. Son of John B. Bell. Married to Sallie M. Bell on September 15, 1859. Father of Paul E. Bell, Anna C. Bell, and William C. Bell. Attended Transylvania University. Teacher in Salvisa, Kentucky, from 1838 to 1862. Attorney in Harrodsburg in 1863. County surveyor of Mercer County, Kentucky, from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Jefferson Robards (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer ) Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Economic: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 22. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 177. “Thomas Clelland Bell (1838-1901),” Find A Grave, Memorial #45692592, accessed June 5, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45692592. John W. Cardwell (Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant) N00003203 1809-02-01 1882-02-09 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, bank cashier and merchant. Shelbyville, Kentucky, native. Married to Sophia Bledsoe Taylor Cardwell in March 1830. Father of John T. Cardwell, Telulia Cardwell, James M. Cardwell, Susan L. Cardwell, Thomas M. Cardwell, Samuel Creed Cardwell, Wesley K. Cardwell, Nannie Cardwell, and Llewellyn Davis Cardwell. Apprentice in a printing house. Trustee for the Harrodsburg Methodist Episcopal Church in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1842. Notary Public in Mercer County in 1847. Co-founder of Monadelphian Society of Industrial Education in 1849. Dry goods clerk in 1850. Partner and, later, full owner of Capt. Bull’s Corner dry goods business. Owned three enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Cashier of Harrodsburg Savings Institution in 1860 and 1863. Served in the Mercer County Home Guard as captain in June 1861. Provost marshal in Mercer County.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Legal: John D. Hale (Mercer County, KY, merchant & brevet 2nd lieut 9th KY Cav USA & col 74th Reg Ky Enrolled Militia) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Military: [Unknown] Currey (Mercer County, KY, lieut likely in Mercer County Home Guard) Legal: Martin V. Bowen (Mercer County, Kentucky, police judge) Military: Mercer County Home Guard Economic: Harrodsburg Savings Institution Economic: Harrodsburg Bar Economic: Thomas Clelland Bell (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney, teacher, and surveyor) Economic: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Economic: John P. Haggin (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: James D. Hardin (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Economic: O. S. Poston (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA) Legal: Thomas Allin (Mercer County, county clerk) Legal: Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney ) Legal: Theodore H. Daviess (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 271B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 837. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, pp. 685-86. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 581A. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1841 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1842), 174. Taliaferro P. Shaffner, ed., _ The Kentucky State Register, for the Year 1847_ (Louisville: Morton & Griswold, 1847), 133. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the December Session, 1848 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1849), 409-10. Thomas W. Westerfield, ed., Kentucky Genealogy and Biography: Sketches from Adair, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland, Garrard, Green, Lincoln, Madison, Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor, Washington Counties, vol. 5 (Owensboro, Ky.: Genealogical Reference Company, 1975), 74. Reprint of W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 4th ed. "John Wesley Cardwell (1809-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #100176979, accessed April 23, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100176979. KYR-0002-022-0123. William V. Trapnall (Mercer County, Kentucky, gentleman) N00006562 1823? Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, gentleman. Kentucky native. Gentleman in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, p. 717. Richard Board (Mercer County KY Circuit Court Clerk) N00002356 1827? 1888-02-03 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, court clerk. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Caroline Virginia Thacker Board in Mercer County on August 23, 1859. Father of Richard Board, Jr., and William E. Board. Clerk of the Mercer Circuit Court in Mercer County from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Thomas Jenkins (Duncansville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Mercer Circuit Court Economic: Mercer Circuit Court Legal: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Patterson (Mercer County, KY, resident) Political: John Kemper Slaughter (Mercer County Broom Maker) Social: Elison H. Carter (Mercer County, KY, blacksmith and private 9th KY Cav USA)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 591B Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994049, Mercer County Marriages, p. 7-8. 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. 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. 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). Harrodsburg, Kentucky P00000555 Categories: Places

Seat of Mercer County, Kentucky.

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Mercer County, Kentucky P00000556 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Harrodsburg. Located on the Kentucky River.

Relationships Political: Ephraim J. Polk (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and examiner for Mercer County)

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 25, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Harrodsburg Bar O00012396 Categories: Organizations

Mercer County, Kentucky, organization of attorneys. While not a formal organization, members of the bar recognized each other by this signifier as a marker of competency to practice law at a time before the institution of requirements of formal written examination to be admitted to the practice of law.

KYR-0001-004-0337. Mercer County, Kentucky 1863-12-03 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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To His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

Your PetitionerJames A Huntstates that a Judgement was entered against him in name of the Commonwealth agt James A Hunt before the Police Judge of Harrodsburg for the sum of Thirty Dollars and costs said Judgement was rendered on 17 Sept 1863. and was for a breach of the Peace.

He states that said breach of the Peace was committed by him whilst Mortified and enraged on account of the degrading and unjustifiable treatment your petitioners Sonhad received at the hands of the person against whom the breach of the peace was committed, that in the excitement of the moment and in obedience to an irresistible impulse of our Common nature he undertook to avenge a cruel wrong suffered by his child; and that though the strict letter of the law would not Justify his Course, yet the feelings of a father and the instincts of true manhood goaded by a sense of grievous wrongs would at least excuse him- Your petitioner further states that he is poor and has a large family and is unable to pay the fine, and for these reasons he asks of Your Excellency the exercise of clemency-

James. A Hunt

Sworn to before me this 3 day of December, 1863

O S Poston N P M C

O S P Decr 3 1863

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We the undersigned members of the Harrodsburg Bar join in the prayer of James A- Hunt for the remission of his fine-

O S Poston James D Hardin Jno P Haggin John G- Kyle E Gabbert Tho C Bell J. W. Cardwell

We the undersigned citizens of Mercer Countyjoin in the foregoing petition of James A. Hunt- and pray that his fine may be released

Wm, V. Trapnall Richard Board

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James A Hunt Petition &c

12 months Respite

T E Bramlette