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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-0001-004-0986 BR11-28 to BR11-29

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. John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) N00014633 1819? Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper. Kentucky native. Son of Charlotte Taylor. Married to Emily Taylor. Father of George Taylor, Mary Taylor, Charlotte Taylor, Cathrin Taylor, Mariah Taylor, Julia Taylor, and John H. Taylor. Hack driver in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1850. Livery stable keeper in Lexington in 1860. Accused of receiving stolen corn in February 1864. Fugitive in 1864.

Relationships Familial: [Unknown] Taylor (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident.) Familial: Charlotte Taylor (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Familial: William L. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Social: William Wesley Dowden (Lexington, Kentucky, student and merchant) Social: William Allen Lindsay (Scott County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and tavern keeper) Social: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Social: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Social: Caleb Tarlton (Johnson County, Indiana, farmer. Slaveholder in Fayette County, Kentucky.) Legal: James Keizer (Fayette County, Kentucky, tailor. ) Legal: Buford C Gorham (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: Andrew Jackson Gorham (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Marcus Hall Cromwell (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: John Thomas Stevenson (Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 2, p. 198A-B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 581. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 254B-255A. KYR-0001-004-0986. William L. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) N00014634 1831? Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper. Kentucky native. Son of Charlotte Taylor. Married to Ellen Taylor. Father of Catherine "Kate" Taylor, James William Taylor, Arabella Taylor, and Ellena Taylor. Hack driver in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1850. Livery stable keeper in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Charles F. Lowry (Fayette County, Kentucky merchant and deputy clerk) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Familial: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, District 2, p. 198A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 581. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 254A. KYR-0001-004-0986. Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept) N00008279 1806-09-21 1886-12-07 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and administrator. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Johnson and Elizabeth Payne Johnson. Married to Sallie Ann Clay Johnson on December 23, 1828. Graduate of Transylvania University in 1823. Studied law with Martin D. Hardin in Frankfort, Kentucky. Studied law with Robert Wickliffe. Graduate of the Law Department of Transylvania University in 1825. Admitted to the bar in 1825. Attorney in Lexington from 1828 to 1870. Director of the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington from 1837 to 1858. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. President of the Lexington Northern Bank of Kentucky from 1858 to 1878. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Stockholder and director of the Cincinnati, Lexington, and Louisville Railroad. President of the Law Department at the University of Kentucky in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Northern Bank of Kentucky Legal: Northern Bank of Kentucky Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 145B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District No. 1, p. 13 of 72 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 110. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 51-52. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward No. 1, p. 80. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 625-27. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 146-49. Find A Grave, "Madison Conyers Johnson (1806-1886)," Memorial #82208004, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/82208004/madison-conyers-johnson (accessed January 24, 2018). Farmer Dewees (Lexington, Kentucky, teller and banker) N00008184 1795-10-15 1869-07-28 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, bank teller and gentleman. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Dewees and Mary Coburn Dewees. Teller at the old branch of the United States Bank in Lexington. Teller at the Northern Bank of Kentucky in Lexington. Gentleman in Lexington in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 116. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 59. Mrs. Philip E. LaMunyan, The Dewees Family: Genealogical Data, Biographical Facts and Historical Information (Norristown, PA: William H. Roberts, 1905), 105-06. George W. Ranck, History of Lexington Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1872), 402-03. Find A Grave, "Farmer Dewees (1795-1869)," Memorial #99746794, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99746794/farmer-dewees (accessed January 5, 2018). Speed Smith Goodloe (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00004016 1837-02-10 1877-05-14 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Son of David S. Goodloe and Sally A. Goodloe. Married to Mary E. Shreve Goodloe in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, on April 5, 1860. Resident of Lexington in 1850. Graduated from Centre College in 1856. Resident of Lexington in 1860. Attorney in Lexington. Judge of the Lexington City Court from 1862 to 1870.

Relationships Political: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Alexander H. Robertson (Petition signer in Fayette County, Kentucky) Legal: Lexington City Court Legal: James Robinson (Kenton County, KY, farmer and soldier)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 214A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 596. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819612. Alexander Maydwell, Jr., comp., Maydwell's Lexington City Directory for 1867 (Cincinnati: Miami Printing and Publishing Co., 1867), 13. 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. The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, 1860 (Danville: Cincinnati Gazette Steam Print, 1860), 26. William Henry Perrin, ed., _History of Fayette County, Kentucky, with an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region by Robert Peter, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Chemist to the State Geological Society, Etc. (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin and Company, 1882), 609. "Speed S. Goodloe (1837-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100859397, accessed September 1, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100859397. KYR-0001-020-1934. George Blackburn Kinkead (Fayette County, KY, attorney and trustee of Transy University) N00011566 1811-09-25 1877-11-11 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and university trustee. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Pearce Kinkead. Father of R. S. Kinkead, John Kinkead, E. T. Kinkead, A. P. Kinkead, Margaret “Maggie” Kinkead, William B. Kinkead, Mary Kinkead, Frank Kinkead, and James Kinkead. Attorney in Lexington in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. Attorney in Lexington in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Trustee of Transylvania University in 1865.

Relationships Legal: John Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Benjamin Gratz (Lexington atto & businessman) Legal: Madison Conyers Johnson (Fayette County, KY, attorney, bank director, professor, and chair of Transy U trustees) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Social: William L. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Lexington City Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 198A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 575. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 456A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 290B. "George Blackburn Kinkead (1811-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98894670, accessed December 23, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98894670. "Eliza Pearce Kinkead (1824-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98894450, accessed December 23, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98894450. KYR-0001-009-0038. Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) N00008329 1813-12-03 1900-02-19 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician. Green County, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard A. Buckner, Sr. and Elizabeth R. Buckner. Attended Centre College. Graduated from St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Kentucky, in 1831. Graduated from law school at Transylvania University in 1837. Began practicing law in Lexington in 1837. Commonwealth's attorney from 1839 to 1842. Circuit judge from 1842 to 1851. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Supported the Constitutional Union presidential campaign of John Bell in 1860. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. Unsuccessful candidate for the United States House of Representatives from the 7th Congressional District of Kentucky in 1863.

Relationships 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: 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: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY 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) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 18. Find A Grave, "Judge Richard A Buckner (1813-1900)," Memorial #100468589, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100468589 (accessed November 16, 2017). James Morrison Bruce (Lexington, KY, physician ) N00014635 1822-09 1881-01-31 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Norton Bruce. Father of Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bruce, John T. Bruce, and Charlotte Bruce. Physician in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Physician in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Social: Thomas J. Harrison (Lexington, KY, merchant and druggist) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 140A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 521. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 426. Find A Grave, "Dr James Morrison Bruce (1822-1881)," Memorial #100465277, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100465277 (accessed June 1, 2021). Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7019820, All County Deaths, File #29522. George W. Sutton (Lexington, KY, farmer ) N00014611 1805? 1870? Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of David Sutton and Juliet May Sutton. Married to Laura Grosvenor Sutton. Father of Mary Louisa Sutton Norton. Farmer in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned forty enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Farmer in Lexington in 1860. Owned thirty enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 190B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 50. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 416. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 453A. Susan Riviere Hetzel, Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. 014 (Washington, D.C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1902), 346-47. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Jefferson County Wills, vol. 8-9. 1861-1879, p. 330-32. Joseph Milward (Lexington, Kentucky, furniture dealer & cabinetmaker) N00013094 1803-08-22 1883-08-14 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, cabinetmaker and furniture dealer. Maryland native. Married to Eliza Ann Milward. Father of Hubbard K. Milward, Charles Milward, Joseph N. Milward, and Bettie Milward. Married to Keturah Gruelle Milward in Woodford County on January 29, 1857. Cabinetmaker in Fayette County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. Furniture dealer in Fayette County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 130B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 571. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 382. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 451A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 34A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Film #994058, Woodford County Marriages, 1852-1914, p. 12 of 27 of microfilm. Find A Grave, “Joseph Milward (1803-1883)," Memorial 97628302, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97628302 (accessed July 28, 2020). Matthew Scott Dudley (Lexington, Kentucky, resident; pvt & adj 21st Ky Inf USA, ass't paymaster for KY 1865) N00009323 1844? Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Ethelbert L. Dudley and Mary Dudley. Resident in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 21st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private and adjutant from 1861 to 1863. Appointed assistant paymaster for Kentucky by Governor Thomas E. Bramlette on April 1, 1865.

Relationships Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Social: David Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, hack driver and dray man)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 144A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 391. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398.. Thomas J. Harrison (Lexington, KY, merchant and druggist) N00014636 1811-06-02 1875-07-26 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, merchant and druggist. Maryland native. Married to Margaret B. Harrison. Merchant in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Druggist in Lexington in 1860. Employed Thomas Maynard as a druggist in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 119B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 426. Find A Grave, “Margaret B Harrison (1833-1855)," Memorial #99670564, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99670564/margaret-b-harrison (accessed June 4, 2021). Find A Grave, “Thomas J Harrison (1811-1875)," Memorial #99670728, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99670728/thomas-j-harrison (accessed June 4, 2021). William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) N00002617 1833-06-28 1875-01-02 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, trader, soldier, and inventor. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Trader with Joseph S. Scott in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 8, 1861, to December 7, 1862. Resigned from service on December 7, 1862. Paymaster General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Invented the Triplett & Scott repeating rifle with Lewis Triplett, patented in December 1864.

Relationships Military: Parker, Snow, Brooks & Company. Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: McFerran & Menefee Economic: McFerran & Menefee Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Social: James Blackburn (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Theophilus Steel (Versailles physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 426. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 240A. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0176. Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives during the Second Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, 1864-65, vol. 10-11 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865), p. 961. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 183-184. "William T Scott (1833-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial 60045140, accessed May 27, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60045140. KYR-0002-222-0125. Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Fayette Circuit Court O00000377 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): John B. Norton.

Relationships Legal: John C. Cable (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Charles Scott Todd Bodley (Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff) Legal: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) Legal: George Washington Brand (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer and bank director) Economic: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Harrison Keith (Plymouth, Massachussetts, salesman and soldier (U.S.A.)) Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. 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. Kentucky State Penitentiary O00000266 1798 1884 Categories: Organizations

State prison of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Frankfort, Kentucky. Operated from 1798 to 1884. Keeper(s): Jeremiah W. South (1859-1863) and Harry I. Todd (1863-1871).

Relationships Economic: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Legal: Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) Economic: Ephraim Whitesides (Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary) Legal: Charles Hawkins (Frankfort, Kentucky) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: Angelo Devoto (Louisville, Kentucky, confectionery shop owner) Legal: James Duddleson (stub, mercer or boyle county) Legal: James Savage (Wayne County farmer and penitentiary inmate) Legal: James Johnson (Campbell County, Kentucky, prisoner) Economic: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Economic: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: William J. Tice (Steele) (Jefferson Co, Frankfort, and Covington, KY) Legal: Felix McDermot (Kenton County laborer and prisoner for grand larceny) Legal: David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher) Legal: Thomas Edrington (Louisville, Kentucky, carpenter and convict) Legal: Francis Pace (Harlan County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Thomas Birmingham (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: Daniel Bush (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker) Legal: Charles T. Sullivan (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident and inmate) Political: James Landon Sneed (Franklin County, Kentucky farmer and clerk) Political: Robert W. Lawler (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Political: John T. Hockensmith (Franklin County, KY, prison guard) Political: Luther S. Prentiss (Franklin County, KY, miller) Political: Robert W. Willhoit (Franklin County, Kentucky, petitioner ) Political: R. K. Taylor (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: James Gallahue (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard. ) Political: Thomas J. Frazier (Breathitt County, Kentucky, postmaster, politician, judge, and Register of the Land Office) Political: L. Tobias (Franklin County, Kentucky, prison guard) Legal: Thomas B. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Wesley [Unknown] (Caldwell County, Kentucky, enslaved man) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) Legal: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: William Duerbeck (Ohio River boat steward.) Legal: John Smith (Mont Wilson) (Frankfort, Kentucky, inmate.) Legal: Austin Bingham (Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Convicted of murder in 1859.) Legal: Jeremiah W. South (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer and keeper of the State Penitentiary) Legal: John J. Dyer, Jr. (Trigg County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) Legal: William Johnson (Convicted of grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court in 1863.) Legal: Daniel W. Clark (Kenton County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Stephen W. Duval (McLean County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.)

Calvin Fairbank, Rev. Calvin Fairbank During Slavery Times: How He “Fought the Good Fight” to Prepare “The Way” (Chicago: R. R. McCabe & Co., 1890), 54-56; 104-117; 139-46. J. W. South. “Report of the Keeper and Lessee of the Kentucky Penitentiary to the General Assembly, September 13, 1861,” Legislative Document Series, No. 7 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 3-13. Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880, Legislative Document No. 18 (Frankfort: E. H. Porter, 1880), 78. William C. Sneed, A Report on the History and Mode of Management of the Kentucky Penitentiary from its Origin, in 1798, to March 1, 1860 (Frankfort: Senate of Kentucky, 1860), 553. 1864-06-21 Petition English Version 1 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 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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To his Excellency

GovBramlette,

The undersigned States that John Taylor, a free man of color, was indicted at the Febry Term of the Fayette Circuit Court for receiving some Corn said to have been stolen He had on the Examining trial been bailed at $800 & your Petition his Brother became his bail, Finding the State of feeling in this Community in regard to Free negroes charged with this crime, being Seen he would be sent to the Penitentiary if he remained for trial (though asserting all the while most positively his innocence) John left the State and at the present term of the Fayette Court the Bail was forfeited and will have to be paid by Petitioner. It is a heavy burden and he will be very thankful to your Excellency to remit such part of it as you can. Even the necessary Costs, which will have to be paid, will be very heavy on him, but this he will be compelled to pay. He prays for the kind interposition of your clemency & will ever pray.

June 21, 1864 Wm L Taylor

The undersigned Knew John Taylor named above He was born & raised in Lexington where he lived

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until the events above stated -- (ie) about 40 years He was a Hack driver and had the confidence of the best people here, both men & women. They heartily join in the request to the Gov to remit the forfeiture --

M C Johnson F Dewees Speed S. Goodloe Geo B Kinkead R A Buckner J M Bruce Geo W Sutton Jos Milward Scott Dudley T J Harrison

W T Scott

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Fayette Circuit Court VS Wm L. Taylor (negro) $800 Bail Bond

Remit except fees & costs Tho E Bramlette July 8th 1864