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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-0001-004-1306 BR12-18

Fleming County, Kentucky William Ward Hammonds (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00002842 1818? Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Dorcas Hammonds. Farmer in Fleming County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Oliver H. Dewey (Fleming County shoemaker and Justice of the Peace) Legal: Fleming County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 276. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 24. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Centerville, p. 3. John Rickets (Fleming County grocer and trader) N00002839 1830? Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, grocer and trader. Kentucky native. Trader in Fleming Countt in 1860. Hired one enslaved person from Jane B. Crain in 1860.

Relationships Social: Samuel Mitchell (Nicholas County) Legal: Fleming Circuit Court Legal: Solomon Mitchell (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Duskin Weaver McIntyre (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Samuel Mitchell (Nicholas County)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Sherbourne, p. 311. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Elizaville, District 1, p. 131. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 2, p. 6. Samuel Mitchell (Nicholas County) N00002840 Categories: People

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860.

Relationships Social: John Rickets (Fleming County grocer and trader) Legal: Fleming Circuit Court Legal: Solomon Mitchell (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Nicholas County Court Legal: John Rickets (Fleming County grocer and trader) Legal: Edward Franklin Chappell (Nicholas County attorney) Social: Thomas Stanforth (Nicholas County, Kentucky, resident) Social: Albert Jackson (Nicholas County, Kentucky, resident) Social: William Ward Hammonds (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 17 and p. 32. Oliver H. Dewey (Fleming County shoemaker and Justice of the Peace) N00002846 1795? Categories: People

Fleming County, Kentucky, shoemaker and justice of the peace. Connecticut native. Married to Mary Dewey. Postmaster in Elizaville, Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Justice of the peace in Fleming County in c1864.

Relationships Legal: J. A. Jackson (Likely Fleming/Nicholas County)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, District 1, p. 46. Lutie Allen Vansant Crutcher, “History of Elizaville,” Fleming Gazette (Ky.), February 7, 1952. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, vol. 12, p. 304 (accessed via Ancestry.com). KYR-0001-004-1305. KYR-0001-004-1306. Fleming County, Kentucky P00000542 Categories: Places

County in northeastern Kentucky. Seat at Flemingsburg. Located on the Licking River.

Relationships Military: William Fleming (Fleming County, Kentucky, tanner) Political: William Fleming (Fleming County, Kentucky, tanner)

38.4223, -83.7338 “Fleming County” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p.324-25. "Flemingsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 15, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Flemingsburg, Kentucky P00000538 Categories: Places

Seat of Fleming County, Kentucky.

38.4223, -83.7338 Ronald Thomas, “Flemingsburg,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 325. "Flemingsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 27, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Elizaville, Kentucky P00007791 Categories: Places

Town in Fleming County, Kentucky.

38.4195, -83.8255 Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1883-1884, vol. 4 (Detroit, MI: R. L. Polk and Co. and A. C. Danser, 1883), p. 199. 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. Fleming Circuit Court O00000379 Categories: Organizations

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): John M. Harbison.

Relationships Legal: Marshall H. Johnson (Fleming County carpenter) Legal: George Morgan Thomas (Lewis Co politician; 10th Judicial District Commonwealth’s Attorney) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned as an associate of John Keithly in a petition for William Beaucamp) Legal: John Marshall Harbeson (Fleming County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: S. D. Ham (Fleming County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John Keithly (Fleming County soldier; fought with William S. Beauchamp)

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. Fleming County Court O00000623 Categories: Organizations

Located in Flemingsburg, Fleming County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Leonard B. Cox. Clerk(s): William T. Dudley and Joseph Throop.

Relationships Political: Benjamin Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer & sheriff) Legal: Oliver H. Dewey (Fleming County shoemaker and Justice of the Peace)

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. Fleming County, Kentucky 1864-11-25 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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County of Fleming State of Kentucky

W. W. Hammonds being first duly sworn deposeth and says that on or about the first day of September 1863 in the Evening returning from circuit court on the Flemingsburg & Elizaville Pike when near the Tool gate John Rickets passed me and verry soon caught up with Samuel Mitchel and others when I heard some altercation loud talking but could not hear what was said but Rickets and Mitchel seamed to be quarling when I hurried up when near them I saw Mitchel draw a pistol out of his left pocket of his coat with his left hand and elevated it in the air keeping the Muzzle up and imediately returned it into his pocket and heard no threats to shoot or any thing of the kind, by this time I came up with them when Mitchel said ^to Rickets^ now I have shown you my pistol show me yours as you say you have one. Mr Rickets was riding on the right hand side of Mitchel all the time and so far as I saw or heard said Mitchel made no threat or attempt to heardt said Rickets on that or any other occasion

W W. Hammonds

Subscribed and sworn to by W. W. Hammonds before a Justice of the peace in and for Fleming County this 25 day of November 1864

O. H Dewey J. P. F. C