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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-0001-004-1342 BR12-91 to BR12-92

Catlettsburg, Boyd 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. Gabriel Endicott (Lawrence County farmer and prisoner for man slaughter) N00004886 1833? Categories: People

Lawrence County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Endicott and Esther Endicott. Married to Roda Endicott. Father of Easter Endicott, James F. Endicott, Sarah Endicott, Mary Endicott, Polly Endicott, Benjamin Endicott, and Gabriel Endicott. Farmer in Lawrence County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Legal: David Justice (Lawrence County) Legal: Landaff Watson Andrews (Fleming County, KY Politician, 10th Cir Ct Judge, atty) Legal: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Political: James McGlone (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer.) Political: James W. Scott (Carter County) Political: David M. Harper (Carter County, KY, farmer) Political: John Grizzell (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Elijah Horton (Carter County) Political: Samuel Everman (Grayson, Carter County, KY, farmer) Political: William Everman (Carter County) Political: Jackson Brown Ward (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 124. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 137. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, Precinct 7, p. 9. Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) N00000230 1818? 1891-05 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant, sheriff, and penitentiary keeper. Kentucky native. Married to Jane B. Todd. Father of Harriet D. Todd, Ann Innes Todd, John H. Todd, Chapman C. Todd, Harry Innes Todd, Jr., Julia R. Todd, Maria Todd, George Todd, Jennie L. Todd, Mary H. Todd, Kitty Todd, and Crittenden Todd. Merchant in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Merchant in Franklin County in 1860. Sheriff of Franklin County from 1860 to 1861. Owned five enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Keeper of the Kentucky State Penitentiary from 1863 to 1871.

Relationships Social: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Economic: Ephraim Whitesides (Frankfort, Kentucky, carpenter and assistant keeper of the penitentiary) Social: John Hopkins Harney (Lou. Democrat publisher) Social: Joshua Fry Bullitt (Louisville. Ct. of Appeals Judge) Social: Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) 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: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) 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: 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) Economic: Kentucky State Penitentiary Political: Francis Pace (Harlan County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Cornelius Bailey (Henderson County, Kentucky, assistant auditor of KY and attorney) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Legal: Charles T. Sullivan (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident and inmate) Social: Lewis Cheek (Franklin County, Kentucky, grocer.) Political: George W. Howe (Franklin County, Kentucky, wagon maker, postmaster, and justice of the peace) Political: Franklin Bryan Chinn (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Alexander Hueston Rennick (Franklin County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Nichols (Covington, KY steel mill worker)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 56A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 885. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 103. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 501A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 140B. William E. Railey, History of Woodford County, Kentucky (1938; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company for Clearfield Company, 2002), p. 389. Legislative Document No. 18: Report of the Special Committee on the Penitentiary to the Senate of Kentucky, February 26, 1880 (Frankfort, KY: E. H. Porter, 1880), p. 46. “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), 99. “Todd, Harry Innes, 1818-1891,” Social Networks and Archival Context, http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6z03wcb (accessed January 11, 2017). KYR-0001-004-0177. Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) N00000825 1829-01-13 1892-11-09 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier. Cabell County, Virginia, native. Son of Frederick William Moore. Married to Sarah A. Everett Moore on January 15, 1850. Father of Felicia E. Moore, Mary F. Moore, S. G. Moore, Minnie H. Moore, and Druzilla Moore. Attended Marshall Academy in Virginia. Graduate of Marietta College in Washington County, Ohio. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1849. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1850. Member of the United States House of Representative from the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Member of the Opposition Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a colonel from November 1861 to January 1862.

Relationships Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Political: Richard Scott, Sr. (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Elba Ulin (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Military: Gaylord McFall (Richland County, Ohio, merchant and soldier) Military: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Samuel Orr (Delaware County, IN, farmer and soldier) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Economic: Boyd Circuit Court Legal: James L. Turman (Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper and farmer) Economic: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 75B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 186. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 333B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Upper Catlettsburg Precinct 6, p. 213A. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities, Vol. 3 (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1562-1564. “Moore, Laban Theodore,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000907. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 350. “Col. Laban T. Moore Dead,” Mt. Sterling Advocate (Mount Sterling, Ky.), November 15, 1892. “Laban Theodore Moore (1829-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 7773434, accessed December 20, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773434. Catlettsburg, Kentucky P00001173 Categories: Places

Seat of Boyd County, Kentucky. Located on the confluence of the Ohio River and Big Sandy River.

38.4048, -82.6004 "Catlettsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 8, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. James C. Powers, "Catlettsburg," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 170. Lawrence County, Kentucky P00000552 Categories: Places

County in northeast Kentucky. Seat at Louisa. Located on the Big Sandy River.

38.1143, -82.6032 George Wolfford, “Lawrence County” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 537. "Louisa, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 22, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. 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. Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky 1864-11-10 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 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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Cattlettsburg Ky Nov 10th 1864 Thomas E Bramlett Esqr Govener of Kentucky Dear Sir

You will please pardon me for again invoking your clemency in behalf of another one of our fellow citizens but the frequent importunity of some of the most respectable citizens of Lawrence county and my own sense of justice impells me to ask in ernest expression the pardon of Gabriel Endicott who is now a prisoner in the Penitentiary of this State upon -- sentence of Man Slaughter -- the petition which will accompany this letter is signed by the very best citizens of the county in which Endicott was

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convicted, and by some who wer most ernest in his prosecution I myself was employed to prosecute him, His good conduct since he has been in the penitentiary has elicited the favourable consideration of the Keeper our Common friend Harry Todd and I am sure no one will be more gratified at his pardon than he, Trusting you may find it consistent with your sense of duty to pardon Endicott

I am as ever your friend and obt servt Laban T Moore