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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-0001-004-2333 BR15-225 to BR15-226

Louisville, Jefferson 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. Ben Duke (Louisville, Ky, freedman and barber, caskman (liquor industry?)) N00011685 1810? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, barber. Kentucky native. Married to Mary Duke. Father of Charles Duke, Emma Duke, and James Duke. Married to Sarah Duke. Father of William H. Duke and Lucy Duke. Barber in Louisville in 1850. Caskman in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Social: Samuel M. Bernard (Hopkinsville, KY attorney, asylum manager, and Jefferson Co, KY, notary public)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville District 1, p. 126A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 3, p. 624. Samuel M. Bernard (Hopkinsville, KY attorney, asylum manager, and Jefferson Co, KY, notary public) N00002481 1826? Categories: People

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney, asylum manager, and notary public. Kentucky native. Attorney in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Hopkinsville in 1860. Manager of the Western Lunatic Asylum of Kentucky in Hopkinsville in 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1864.

Relationships Political: James Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, and Christian County, Kentucky, physician and asylum superintendent) Legal: John Feland (Christian Co, Ky, attorney and quarter master (U.S.A.)) Legal: Christian Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 424. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 145. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 186. p. 9 Statement of the Board of Managers of the Western Lunatic Asylum, to the Governor of Kentucky, In Relation to the Burning of Said Institution, Accompanied by Estimate of Cost for Reconstruction (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1861), p. 10. KYR-0001-007-0197. Walter De B. Morrill (Richard Baxter Morrill) (Kentucky, notary, soldier (U.S.A.)) N00011684 1822-10-10 Categories: People

Kentucky, notary and soldier. Meriden, New Hampshire, native. Married to Mary J. Nutter Morrill in Wells River, Vermont, on October 11, 1845. Father of Daniel Morrill, Lettie Morrill, Edd Morrill, Paul Morrill, and John Morrill. Attended Kimball Union Academy in Plainfield, New Hampshire, from 1839 to 1843. Served in the 74th Illinois Infantry as quartermaster from 1863 to 1865. Served in Louisville, Kentucky, as colonel and military agent in 1864. Nominated notary public for Kentucky at large on September 7, 1865. Appointed a special agent to visit sick and wounded soldiers in Kentucky on September 27, 1865. Real estate broker in Kentucky in 1865.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 6, p. 588A. The General Catalogue and a Brief History of Kimball Union Academy..., 1815-1880, (Claremont, N.H.: The Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1880),126. Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort: State Printing Office, 1865), 94. KYR-0001-004-2333. KYR-0001-008-0002. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-09-06 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Louisville Kentucky Sept 6th 1865 To his ExcelencyThos, E, Bramlett

Governor of Kentucky

Enclosed find a petition in favor of Ben Duke a free man of Colour, which I am proud to say presents stronger claims than is usual. Ben is an exception among his negros Race --

Governor If you feel it to be your duty to remit bens Bond I hope you will do so as soon as possible the old man is in the last stages of Consumption & has a large helpless family & I dont want him to die with this on his mind

Respectfully yours &C, S, M, Bernard

P, S,

Enclose me the Remitten & I will Enclose back the fee to the Sect -- &c S, M, B,

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Notary Public W De B. Morrill apptd for State at large 7 Sept/ 65