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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-0001-004-1399 BR12-174 to BR12-175

Newport, Campbell 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. Frederick Ampher (Campbell County Farmer) N00006452 1822? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer. Native of Germany. Married to Dorothy Walters Ampher. Father of Recka Ampher, Whilamena Ampher, Mary Ampher, Louisa Ampher, Frederick Ampher. Farmer in Campbell County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: John S. M. Gruder () Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Jacob Carmack (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Wright (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Thomas J. Daniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Smith (Campbell County, KY, blacksmith) Legal: William Lees (Campbell County, KY, laborer) Legal: Timothy McDaniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Thomas Jones (Campbell County, KY, farmer and deputy court clerk) Legal: John Henderson, Jr. (Campbell County, KY, riverboat pilot and farmer) Legal: John Hayden Nelson (Campbell County, KY, attorney) Legal: J. H. Darr (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: James H. Scott (Kenton County, KY, farmer) Legal: William C. Byrd (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Byrd (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Luther Dayton (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John F. Traver (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Dones (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Jonathan Horsfall (Campbell County, KY, jailer) Legal: George Richard Fearons (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: John Kinney (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 787. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Ohio, Clermont County, New Richmond, p. 212B. Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7017518, Harrison County Deaths, File #3508. Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) N00005226 1824? Categories: People

Covington, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney. Vermont native. Married to Elizabeth A. Carpenter. Father of Julius Carpenter, Mary E. Carpenter, Nellie A. Carpenter, Lillie A. Carpenter, and Nannie R. Carpenter. Attorney in Covington, Kentucky, in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 9th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Investigated for bribery, embezzlement, and failing to appear at court in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Pendleton County Court Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Samuel Thomas Hauser, Sr. (Pendleton County, Kentucky, attorney and county judge) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: Coleman Shaw (farmer) Legal: Thomas Hays (Campbell County resident) Legal: John J. Nelson (Campbell County resident) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Bracken Circuit Court Legal: Thomas J. Terry (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: George Ennis (Harrison County, Ky, resident) Legal: David A. Grimes (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Marquis "Marcus" Lafayette Broadwell (Cynthiana, Ky, judge) Legal: John James McClintock (Harrison County, Ky, farmer and clerk) Legal: Thomas R. Rankin (Harrison County, Ky, hotel keeper) Legal: Joseph B. McClintock (Harrison County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer) Legal: Thomas W. Hedges (Harrison County, Ky, physician ) Legal: George W. Berry (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William G. Courtney (Harrison County, Ky, farm hand) Legal: Benjamin F. Dills (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William A. Hinkson (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Robert Scott Holmes (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Richard J. Levi (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Charles Green Land (Cynthiana, Kentucky, mayor and clerk) Legal: Fleming Cummins (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: James H. Debrular (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Jesse B. Hickman (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: William Hutcherson (Harrison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: David Dills (Harrison County, Ky, laborer) Legal: Thomas A. Rankin (Harrison County farmer) Social: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: George Sidle (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Harrison Circuit Court Legal: William W. Trimble (Harrison County Lawyer) Legal: Lorenzo Dow Croninger (Covington, Kentucky, master printer) Legal: Thomas T. Sharp (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA) Legal: James W. Steward (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer ) Legal: Elijah Kirtley (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: John VanDeren (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Aaron H. Wheeler (Nicholas + Harrison County, KY, farmer ) Legal: Andrew Jackson Renaker (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.) Legal: Thomas Edwards (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Lewis Veatch (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and slaveholder.) Legal: James T. Smith (Harrison County, Kentucky, cooper.) Legal: William Hutchinson (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Thomas V. Dills (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer, merchant, and slaveholder. ) Legal: Ninth Judicial District of Kentucky Political: John Brough (Twenty-sixth Governor of the State of Ohio, newspaper editor, railroad president, and politician.) Legal: Moses Nelson (Preble County, Ohio, carpenter and agent of the State of Ohio.) Legal: Andrew J. Surface (Ohio farmhand and soldier.) Legal: Elizabeth Snyder Surface (Ohio resident.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington, p. 318B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston Ward 2, p. 54A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Kenton County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 40. 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), 301-306. 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), 347-350. Report on the Committee of Circuits on the case of R. B. Carpenter, Esq., Attorney of the Ninth Judicial District, Legislative Document No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865). Ed. W. Hawkins, Sr. (Newport, Kentucky, mayor, judge of mayor's court, attorney) N00004720 1815? Categories: People

Newport, Kentucky, attorney. Virginia native. Father of Jane Hawkins. Married to Mary A. Munday Hawkins in Owen County on November 27, 1854. Father of Richard B. Hawkins, Elva Hawkins, Edmund W. Hawkins, Mary Hawkins, and Laura Hawkins. Attorney in Gallatin County in 1850. Mayor of Newport in 1858. Attorney in Newport in 1860. Employed Anna Heron as a domestic worker in Newport in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Newport in 1860. Presiding judge of Newport mayor's court in 1861.

Relationships Legal: F. S. Grismier (Newport, Campbell Co, KY, soldier) Military: E. A. Herman Beyland (Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky, soldier (U.S.A)) Military: Charles Haebe (Henderson County, Kentucky, merchant and private (U.S.A.)) Military: Friedrich Bertsch (Cincinnati, Ohio, lithographer and lieutenant (U.S.A.) ) Political: Newport Mayors Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin County, p. 154B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 634. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 237A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Campbell County, Newport, p. 462B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1914), KDLA, Films 994027-994058: Owen County Marriages, p. 5 of 13 (accessed through Ancestry.com). Find A Grave, "Edmund W. Hawkins (1815-1909)," Memorial #106123793, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106123793/edmund-w.-hawkins (accessed April 17, 2017). The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 128. KYR-0001-029-0592. Newport, Kentucky P00000862 Categories: Places

Co-seat of Campbell County, Kentucky, along with Alexandria, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

39.0914, -84.4958 Will Frank Steely, "Newport" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 680. Campbell Circuit Court O00000361 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 9th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): S. M. Moore and Joseph Doniphan. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William Evans Arthur (1856-1862) and R. B. Carpenter (1862-1865). Clerk(s): Gus Artsman and Benjamin Beall.

Relationships Legal: F. S. Grismier (Newport, Campbell Co, KY, soldier) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: William Gearty (Cincinnati, Ohio railroad passenger agent) Economic: Gustavus Artsman (Newport, Kentucky, attorney, and circuit court clerk) Familial: Austin Morris (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Familial: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John S. M. Gruder () Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Jacob Carmack (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Wright (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Thomas J. Daniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Smith (Campbell County, KY, blacksmith) Legal: William Lees (Campbell County, KY, laborer) Legal: Timothy McDaniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Thomas Jones (Campbell County, KY, farmer and deputy court clerk) Legal: John Henderson, Jr. (Campbell County, KY, riverboat pilot and farmer) Legal: John Hayden Nelson (Campbell County, KY, attorney) Legal: J. H. Darr (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: James H. Scott (Kenton County, KY, farmer) Legal: William C. Byrd (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Byrd (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Luther Dayton (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John F. Traver (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Dones (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Jonathan Horsfall (Campbell County, KY, jailer) Legal: George Richard Fearons (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: John Kinney (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Fridolin "Fred" Brutsche (Newport, Kentucky, shopkeeper and distiller.)

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. Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky 1864-12-13 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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

Thomas E Bramlette Governor of Ky.

New Port Ky Decr 13. 1864 Dear Sir

I have the honor of enclosing to you a petitioner from Frederick Ampher praying a remission of fines assessed against him at the May Term 1864 of the Campbell Circuit Court for selling liquor to minors

Altho. I am well aware of the good policy of the law alleged to be violated yet am satisfied that Ampher is innocent of these charges and if he had have had a fair trial would have proved himself so; This opportunity was denied him under the peculiar circumstances stated in the petition -- The jury and the attorney for the Comth you will percieve have

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joined in the petition -- Hopeing that you will give the case your immediate & favorable consideration I have Sir the honor to be

Your Obt Servt E. W. Hawkins