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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-0001-004-0343 BR9-47

Nelson County, Kentucky John Darwin Elliott (Nelson county, Kentucky, attorney and clerk) N00010590 1826-08-28 1897-09-21 Categories: People

Bardstown, Nelson county, Kentucky, attorney and clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Lucinda Beal Elliot and William Elliot. Married Susan Carpenter Elliot in Bardstown, Kentucky on June 26, 1855. Father of Mary E. Elliot, Sam C. Elliot, Lucinda Abel Elliot, Louisa P. Elliot, Sarah Abel Elliot, Maggie Abel Elliot, and Lon Abel Elliot. Resident in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1850. Attorney in Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky in 1860. Clerk of Nelson County c.1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John A. Mackey (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Marshall Brown (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: Nelson County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 748. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Bardstown, p. 4. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 127. Find A Grave, "John Darwin Elliot (1826-1897)," Memorial #99886046, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99886046 (accessed April 24, 2019). Kentucky Marriage Records, Nelson County Courthouse, Bardstown, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film 001929414, p. 69. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Hardin County, KY, May 1865, p. 59, (Accessed via ancestry.com). KYR-0001-004-0343. James Marshall Brown (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer) N00010593 1792-05-01 1879-11-09 Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married Susan Beauchamp Brown in Nelson County, Kentucky on February 26, 1818. Father of Harry Brown, Susan Brown, Edwinia Brown, Catherine Brown, Newell Wilson Brown, and James Harvey Brown. Farmer in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1850. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Enoch Edwin McKay (Nelson County, KY, attorney) Legal: James A. Wood (Nelson County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: John Darwin Elliott (Nelson county, Kentucky, attorney and clerk) Legal: Nelson County Court Legal: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 653. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 96. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 178. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 136. Kentucky Marriage Records, Nelson County Courthouse, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film 000481488, p. 179. Find A Grave, "James Marshal Browne (1792-1879)," Memorial #112410132, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112410132 (accessed April 25, 2019). John A. Mackey (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer) N00010594 1816? Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Mississippi native. Married Lucinda Conner Mackey in Nelson County, Kentucky on January 25, 1838. Father of Walter Mackey, Susan Mackey, Mary Mackey, Rodney Mackey, John Mackey, Margaret Mackey, and Wallace Mackey. Farmer in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1850. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860.

Relationships Social: James Marshall Brown (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Enoch Edwin McKay (Nelson County, KY, attorney) Economic: James Marshall Brown (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Marshall Brown (Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James A. Wood (Nelson County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: John Darwin Elliott (Nelson county, Kentucky, attorney and clerk) Legal: Nelson County Court Legal: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 619. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 178. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 209. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, p. 116. Kentucky Marriage Records, Nelson County Courthouse, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #000481488. Enoch Edwin McKay (Nelson County, KY, attorney) N00002416 1835-04-07 1913-01-17 Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, attorney. Nelson County native. Son of E. H. McKay and Anna S. M. Anderson McKay. Married to Ophelia Wilson McKay. Attorney in Nelson County, Kentucky in 1860. Confirmed as a notary public in Ohio County, Kentucky on February 5, 1861.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 249. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016189, Nelson County Deaths, File #2577. KYR-0001-017-0062. 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. Nelson County, Kentucky P001012 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Bardstown.

37.7647, -85.4788 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 210. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Nelson County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 5, 2019). 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). Nelson County, Kentucky 1863-12-30 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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The affiant, J. D, Elliott, says the foregoing Statements of J. M. Brown & John A. Mackay he believes to be true -- affiant was the County Court Clerk at the time refered to and rembers the facts --

J. D. Elliott

Subscirbed & sworn to before me by J, D, Elliott this 30th day December 1863

E. E. McKay Notary Pub Nelson Co.

NELSON COUNTY, KY.

Dec 30st. 1863 J. D. E.

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Nelson County

Commonwealth vs } Application to Governor to remit fine of $25 Brown & MacKay

Refused T E Bramlette