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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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-005-0008 BR7-11

Adair 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. Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge) N00002682 1825-10-10 1871-12-19 Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky farmer and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Caroline M. Garnett. Farmer in Adair County in 1860. Presiding judge of Adair County Court in 1865.

Relationships Legal: John S. Miller (farm laborer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 27. Find A Grave, "Richard T. Garnett (1825-1871)," Memorial #94688830, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94688830 (accessed May, 24, 2017). KYR-0001-005-0064. James Edwards (Adair County farmer) N00002683 1798? 1863-10 Categories: People

Adair county, Kentucky, farmer. Married to Margaret Nell Edwards. Murdered in October, 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 70. John Mullins (Tennessee Refugee) N00003124 Categories: People

Accused of murder in Adair County, Kentucky.

Relationships Legal: Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge) Legal: James Edwards (Adair County farmer)

KYR-0001-005-0008 Micajah Richards (Tennessee Refugee) N00003125 Categories: People

Accused of murder in Adair County, Kentucky.

Relationships Legal: Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge) Legal: James Edwards (Adair County farmer) Legal: John Mullins (Tennessee Refugee)

KYR-0001-005-0008 Bal Daniels (Tennessee Refugee) N00003126 Categories: People

Accused of murder in Adair County, Kentucky. Alias Bal Jones

Relationships Legal: Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge) Legal: Micajah Richards (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: John Mullins (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: James Edwards (Adair County farmer)

KYR-0001-005-0008 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). Adair County, Kentucky P001017 Categories: Places

County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Columbia.

37.0764, -85.3136 “Adair County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 2. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Adair County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 30, 2019). Tennessee P001001 Categories: Places

State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.

35.5175, -86.5804 Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith, Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), 69. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 14, 2019). Adair Circuit Court O00000338 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 6th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861. Judge: Thomas E. Bramlette. Commonwealth's Attorney: Ephraim L. Van Winkle. Clerk: Junius Caldwell.

Located in the 15th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Judge: Thomas T. Alexander. Commonwealth's Attorney: John H. C. Sandidge. Clerk: James T. Page.

Relationships Legal: Bal Daniels (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: Micajah Richards (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: John Mullins (Tennessee Refugee) Legal: Richard T. Garnett (Adair County Judge) Legal: Richard Smith (Cumberland County) Legal: Herschel Clay Baker (Adair County, KY, attorney) Legal: William E. Russell (Adair County attorney) Legal: R. M. Alexander (Cumberland County physician) Legal: Milton M. Smiley (Cumberland County) Legal: Benjamin B. Vaughan (Cumberland County) Legal: George W. Overstreet (Overton County, Tennessee, farmer, merchant and tobacco dealer) Legal: Robert C. Logan (Cumberland County Court Clerk) Legal: Timoleon Cravens (Adair County attorney) Legal: Alexander Naylor (Adair County) Legal: James M. Wilson (Adair Co. Farmer) Legal: Josiah Frankum (Adair County) Legal: Robert T. Bennett (Adair County) Legal: A. B. Williams (Adair County) Legal: Joel Robert Montgomery (Adair County) Legal: Hiram C. White (Adair County) Legal: Hugh K. Walker (Adair County) Legal: Samuel Wilburne (Cumberland County) Legal: Reece Morgan (Adair County) Legal: Jane Smith (Clinton County) Legal: Thomas Wood (Cumberland County) Legal: T. Q. Walker (Adair County physician) Legal: Louisa Morgan (Cumberland County) Legal: Sydney S. Dunbar (Adair County, Kentucky, farmer)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59. 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. Adair County, Kentucky Petition English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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His Excellency- Thos E Bramlette

Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Richard T Garnett says he is County Judge of Adair County --

That in said County on the day of October 1863 James Edwards an aged law abiding good citizen of Adair County was in said county most brutally murdered by John Mullins, Micajah Richards, and Bal Daniels (alias Bal Jones)

Your petitioner therefore prays that Your Excellency will offer a suitable reward for the apprehension & delivery of the said Murderers to the proper officers of Adair County, No judicial examination has been had of the matter, the murderers having fled from justice --

R. T. Garnett P J A C C

Descriptions --

John Mullins is a low heavy set man with a scar on one of his cheeks, caused apparently by a boil salivation, or gun shot wound --

Micajah Richards is a dark skinned, black eyed man, slender and about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high --

Bal Daniel (alias Bal Jones) is a large light haired, light eyed ruffian looking man about 5 feet 11 or 6 feet high & weighs 170 or 180 pounds, All profess to be Tennesseerefugees from the rebel conscription or rebel deserters

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Adair Co Reward $750 -- 27th Nov/63