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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-0001-004-1314 BR12-44

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 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. Henry C. Metcalf (Lexington auctioneer) N00003629 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, auctioneer. Auctioneer in Lexington in 1866.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll unknown, Franklin County, Kentucky, 1866, (Accessed via ancestry.com). John Boyd Huston (Winchester, Kentucky, and Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) N001797 1813-10-01 1881-11-14 Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Huston and Mary McKee Huston. Married to Mary J. Allen Huston on September 21, 1836. Married to Elizabeth Jackson Huston on December 21, 1854. Graduate of Centre College in 1833. Teacher at Walnut Hill in Fayette County, Kentucky. Assistant instructor at Centre College in Danville. Studied law under Judge Daniel Mayers and Joshua F. Bell. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington in 1835. Attorney in Winchester from 1837 to 1864. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County in 1839, from 1855 to 1859, and from 1861 to 1863. Member of the Democratic Party. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1855 to 1857.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 41B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 886. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 192B. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 130, 774. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 364. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 298-99. H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 595-96. "John Boyd Huston (1813-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 48379493, accessed September 8, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48379493. 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/. Franklin Circuit Court O00000376 Categories: Organizations

Located in the Eighth Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Elijah F. Nuttall and George C. Drane. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Patrick U. Major and John L. Scott. Clerk(s): Philip Swigert and Walter R. Franklin.

Relationships Legal: Henry C. Metcalf (Lexington auctioneer) Legal: Joseph Pfeiffer (Franklin County, Kentucky, bar keeper) Legal: Allic Ford (Stamping Ground, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Hockensmith (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Sandford Robertson (Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Legal: Martin J. Sebree (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Benjamin Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer & sheriff) Legal: Andrew J. Banta (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, sheriff, and soldier (CSA)) Legal: Decius C. Priest (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer, constable, and sheriff) Legal: William E. Ashbrook (Covington, Kentucky, sheriff and merchant) Legal: John H. McBrayer (Anderson County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Francis Christopher Catron (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Henry C. Metcalf (Lexington and Nicholasville rope and bagging manufacturer) Legal: Jno B. Payne (Franklin County ) Legal: Grant Green (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, Kentucky Secretary of State, and Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts) Legal: Jacob T. Young (Lyon County, Kentucky, sheriff) Legal: Samuel F. Roberts (Kenton County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Legal: George W. Doneghy (Boyle County, Kentucky, Sheriff) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Legal: Reuben R. Jones (Meade Co, Ky, sheriff and major) Legal: Oliver G. Moore (Edmonson County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) Legal: Larkin J. Procter (Edmonson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, hotelkeeper, and Mammoth Cave lessee) Legal: Felix Jarboe (Marion County, KY, farmer) Legal: Henry T. Jackson (Marion County, Kentucky, constable and sheriff) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Legal: Samuel P. Alexander (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James J. Long (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1864-11-01 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Lexington Nov 1st/64 Dear Govenor

Let Henry Metcalf off-- It is right He is a clever man & has a large family to support-- He has paid the fees & costs & this was hard on him -- He deserves clemency & will sin no more if sin he did-- This I mention is the sentiment of a large body of our people -- I earnestly recommend his pardon--

yours &c

Jno B Huston

2 cases $500 each

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Franklin Cir Ct vs H, C. Metcalf 2 Judgts $500. each Remit Dealing Faro 10th Nov/64

Gov T. E. Bramlete