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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-0001-004-0385 BR9-112

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. Jeremiah John Martin (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer) N00012345 1823? Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Edmund Martin. Married to Nancy Jane McCormick Martin in Nicholas County, Kentucky, in January 1843. Father to John L. Martin, Sarah J. Martin, and Edmond Martin. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Fleming County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Fleming Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 401B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 5. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 861. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252404, p. 418. Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00012346 1813? Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Virginia native. Married to Ellen T. Wilmot Cox in Garrard County, Kentucky, on July 27, 1838. Father of Emily V. Cox, Mary L. Cox, Samuel W. Cox, Thomas S. Cox, and John S. Cox. Attorney in Springfield, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Fleming County in 1860. Presiding judge in Fleming County in 1862. Judge of the Fleming County Court in November 1863.

Relationships Legal: Jeremiah John Martin (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fleming Circuit Court Political: Robert Payne (Fleming County, Kentucky, tavern keeper) Political: Jeremiah John Martin (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Peter Everett (Mt. Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky, gentleman) Social: Thomas M. Allen (Fleming County, KY, resident, Kenton Co farmer) Social: Jeremiah John Martin (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: William Bell (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer and dentist) Social: George Morgan Thomas (Lewis Co politician; 10th Judicial District Commonwealth’s Attorney) Social: William E. Rice (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and captain, 10th KY Cav USA) Social: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Fleming County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, Springfield, p. 237B-238A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 2, p. 615. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 11. 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), 304. KYR-0001-004-0312. [Unknown] [Unknown] (Fleming County, Kentucky, captain) N00012620 Categories: People

Mentioned in a Fleming County, Kentucky petition to Thomas Bramlette on behalf of Jeremiah J. Martin, dated December 7, 1863. Described as the Captain.

Relationships Political: Jeremiah John Martin (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Robert Payne (Fleming County, Kentucky, tavern keeper)

KYR-0001-004-0385. James Clark (Governor of Kentucky 1836-39) N00012564 1779-01-16 1839-08-27 Categories: People

Twelfth governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, attorney and judge. Virginia native. Married to Susan Forsythe Clark. Father of James Clark, Sarah Ann Clark, and Susan Clark. Member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky from 1813 to 1816 and from 1825 to 1831. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1832. Governor of Kentucky from 1836 to 1839.

Relationships Political: John Green (Lincoln County, Kentucky, circuit court judge; state rep and senator) Political: John Chambers (Kentucky Congressman, judge, & major in War of 1812, Gov of Iowa territory) Political: Thomas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, Governor of KY 1828-32)

Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), 628. Find A Grave, "James Clark (1779-1839)," Memorial #19299462, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19299462 (accessed May 5, 2020). Thomas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, Governor of KY 1828-32) N00012565 1780-03-20 1855-08-18 Categories: People

Tenth governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, politician and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Nancy Mason Metcalfe. Father of William Melville Metcalfe, Rhoda D. Metcalfe, Bela Metcalfe, Jane Lee Metcalfe, Jacob R. Metcalfe, Keturah Gruelle Metcalfe, Leonidas Metcalfe, and Mary A. Metcalfe. Veteran of the War of 1812. Member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky from 1819 to 1828. Governor of Kentucky from 1828 to 1832. Member of the United States Senate from Kentucky from 1848 to 1849. Resident of Nicholas County, Kentucky, in 1850.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 393A. Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Vol. 4 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), 312. Find A Grave, "Thomas Metcalfe (1780-1855)," Memorial #7909145, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7909145 (accessed May 5, 2020). John Chambers (Kentucky Congressman, judge, & major in War of 1812, Gov of Iowa territory) N00012568 1780-10-06 1852-09-21 Categories: People

Kentucky politician, judge, and soldier. New Jersey native. Married to Hannah Lee Taylor Chambers. Father of Margaret Taylor Chambers, Joseph Sprigg Chambers, Hannah Lee Chambers, James Chambers, Matilda Chambers, Francis Taylor Chambers, Jane Chambers, Mary Chambers, Laura Chambers, John Chambers, James Chambers, Henry Chambers, and Lucretia Chambers. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1812 to 1815 and 1830 to 1831. Served as major and aide to General William Henry Harrison during the War of 1812. Judge of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1825 to 1827. Replaced Thomas Metcalfe in the United States House of Representatives in December 1828 until 1829. Whig member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky from 1835 to 1839. Second governor of Iowa Territory from 1841 to 1845.

William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin, 1882), 458. Find A Grave, "John Chambers (1790-1852)," Memorial #30039599, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30039599 (accessed May 5, 2020). John Green (Lincoln County, Kentucky, circuit court judge; state rep and senator) N00012577 1786-01-04 1838-09-30 Categories: People

Danville, Kentucky, soldier, politician, and judge. Virginia native. Married to Sarah A. Fry Green. Married to Mary Keith Marshall Paxton Green. Veteran of the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County in 1818. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Lincoln County from 1826 to 1832. Judge of Lincoln County Circuit Court from 1834 to 1838.

Stella Pickett Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America, (New York: Tobias A. Wright, Printer and Publisher, 1911), 242. Find A Grave, "Judge John Green (1786-1838)," Memorial #40788687, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40788687 (accessed May 6, 2020). Robert Payne (Fleming County, Kentucky, tavern keeper) N00012570 1786 1869-07 Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper. Virginia native. Married to Frances Throckmorton Payne in Nicholas County, Kentucky, on April 14, 1853. Farmer in Fleming County in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1850. Tavern keeper in Fleming County in 1860.

Relationships Social: John Green (Lincoln County, Kentucky, circuit court judge; state rep and senator) Social: John Chambers (Kentucky Congressman, judge, & major in War of 1812, Gov of Iowa territory) Social: Thomas Metcalfe (Nicholas County, KY, Governor of KY 1828-32) Social: Jeremiah John Martin (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: James Clark (Governor of Kentucky 1836-39)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 284B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 7. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 861. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Centerville District, p. 398. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film #000252392, p. 222. Find A Grave, "Robert Payne (1785-1869)," Memorial #152611517, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152611517 (accessed May 6, 2020). Blue Licks, Kentucky P00012563 Categories: Places

Town in Nicholas County, Kentucky. Located on the Licking River.

38.4344, -83.9915 Kentucky Atlas & Gazetteer, "Blue Licks, Kentucky," https://www.kyatlas.com/ky-blue-licks.html (accessed on May 5, 2020). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Blue Licks, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on May 5, 2020). 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. 1863-12-07 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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Honorable Governor Bramlett Kty Dear sir,

Permit me to address you from my short acquaintance with you whilst at my House, in behalf of my neighbour Mr Jeremiah J, Martin who stands charged in an inditement for suffering gambling to be carried on in his House, and I must truly say that I have lived a neighbour to Mr Martin for six or seven years and have never seen a card thrown in his ^House^ for money nor no other species of gambling, I have frequently been present when there were parties of Gentlemen who would play a game of Eukir or Whist to pass of the time and I for one have Joined the party, and no money bett, this suggestion of several Gentlemen of your acquaintances made by Judge Cox & the Captain is a very good one far better than a Petition goten up and signed by Bob. dick. tom & Harry that you know nothing of, and reminds me me of my own situation when I lived at the TownBlue licks and Kept a Hotele there. I was find in the same way a fine of five Hundred dollars stood against me for the same offence, and I was advised to get some Gentlemen of my acquaintance to write to the Governor. which I did Gov. Clarke presided then, and the Honl. Gov. Metcalf Honl John Chambers Honl John Green and several others addressed the Old Gentleman in my Behalf

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when those letters were presented to the old Gentleman they found him in his office, after purusing of them he turnd to his cleark and told him to remit the fine, there were two other cases who had large Petitions presented that never got them omitted, these gentlemen stated they had been Boarders at my House and never saw any thing of the Kind only as I have spoken as a Party of Gentlemen for there own amusement and Believe me Dr Sir yours with sentiments of high Respect

Robt. Payne Decr 7th 18623