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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-0001-004-2648 BR16-243 to BR16-244

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. John Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) N00017096 1800? Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver. Married to Charlotte Taylor. Father of John H. Taylor, James Taylor, George Taylor, William Taylor, and Robert S. Taylor. Resident of Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1840. Hack driver in Fayette County in 1850.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 97. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 198A-B. KYR-0001-004-0453. George Blackburn Kinkead (Fayette County, KY, attorney and trustee of Transy University) N00011566 1811-09-25 1877-11-11 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and university trustee. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Pearce Kinkead. Father of R. S. Kinkead, John Kinkead, E. T. Kinkead, A. P. Kinkead, Margaret “Maggie” Kinkead, William B. Kinkead, Mary Kinkead, Frank Kinkead, and James Kinkead. Attorney in Lexington in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. Attorney in Lexington in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Trustee of Transylvania University in 1865.

Relationships Legal: John Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Benjamin Gratz (Lexington atto & businessman) Legal: Madison Conyers Johnson (Fayette County, KY, attorney, bank director, professor, and chair of Transy U trustees) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Social: William L. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Lexington City Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 198A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 575. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 456A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 3, p. 290B. "George Blackburn Kinkead (1811-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98894670, accessed December 23, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98894670. "Eliza Pearce Kinkead (1824-1904)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98894450, accessed December 23, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98894450. KYR-0001-009-0038. 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/. 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). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1865-11-02 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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 "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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Lexington Ky Nov 2, 1865 His Excy Gov Bramlette -- Frankfort Ky Sir

I have Known John Taylor a free man of Color, for a great many years, and have a great deal to do with him as his Counsel in his various business --

About a year ago he fell under suspicion of receiving a small quantity of Stolen Corn, I defended him and heard the evidence, It was Clear that the Corn was stolen and was found in the Livery Stable of Taylor very early the morning after -- But this was the only proof Connecting him

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with it, And he denied most vehemently that he Knew anything about it; but said the Wagon was droiven in his Stable without his having any idea where the corn had been got from, He had a large livery stable in Lexington, and his story had all the appearance of probability about it, but the magistrates held him to bail & he found that about that time prejudice was running very high against free Negroes and he forfeited his bail & fled the Country, and has been absent since,

I think highly of John Taylor and I believe we never had a more orderly humble and faithful free Negro in Lexington,

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I would be very truly gratified if you could extend him your Excellency Executive Clemency.

I am Very Truly Geo B Kinkead

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