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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-0001-005-0019 BR7-31

Harrison 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 W. Phillips () N00005521 Categories: People

Harrison County, Kentucky, resident. Fled with the Confederate Army in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Marquis "Marcus" Lafayette Broadwell (Cynthiana, Ky, judge) Legal: Harrison Circuit Court Legal: Harrison County Court

KYR-0001-005-0019 John Whalin (murder victim, Harrison County) N00006853 1858 Categories: People

Murdered in 1858, a crime for which John W. Phillips was indicted.

Relationships Legal: John W. Phillips () Social: John W. Phillips ()

KYR-0001-005-0019. Marquis "Marcus" Lafayette Broadwell (Cynthiana, Ky, judge) N00005522 1829-02-22 1870-07-04 Categories: People

Cynthiana, Kentucky, judge. Kentucky native. Married to Catharine Dinsmore Broadwell in Harrison County, Kentucky, on October 18, 1852. Father of Mary Broadwell, William A. Broadwell, Martha Broadwell, Ewing Broadwell, Freddie Broadwell, and Bettie Broadwell. Resident of Harrison County in 1850. Presiding judge of Harrison County Court in 1860. Employed Mrs. A. C. Finnell as a housekeeper in Cynthiana in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Harrison County in 1860. Presiding judge of Harrison County Court in 1863.

Relationships Social: James H. Coffman (Captain in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)) Military: 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Legal: Andrew Harrison Ward (Harrison Co, Kentucky,US & KY representative and attorney) Legal: Richard T. Lindsay (Harrison Co, Ky, resident, clerk & merchant in AR) Legal: James F. Ware (Cynthiana, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Charles Green Land (Cynthiana, Kentucky, mayor and clerk) Legal: Charles T. Wilson (Cynthiana, Kentucky, merchant.) Legal: Joseph B. McClintock (Harrison County, Kentucky, sheriff and farmer) Legal: James Ward (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Harrison Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 1, p. 62B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Harrison, Cynthiana, p. 19. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Harrison, Cynthiana, p. 3-4. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison, Cynthiana, p. 190A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records - Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #000216896, Harrison County Marriages, . Find A Grave, "Marquis ‘Marc’ Lafayette Broadwell (1829-1870),” Memorial #19079580, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19079580/marquis-delafayette-broadwell (accessed June 4, 2017). KYR-0001-004-0388. Harrison County, Kentucky P00002873 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Cynthiana.

38.3904, -84.2941 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 132. “Cynthiana, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 11, 2020, 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. Harrison County Court O00000640 Categories: Organizations

Located in Cynthiana, Harrison County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailer, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Marquis Lafayette Broadwell. Clerk(s): Perry Wherritt and Charles T. Wilson. Sheriff: John Shawhorn. Deputy Sheriff: Harvey Ireland.

Relationships Legal: Perry Wherritt (Harrison County, Kentucky, tanner and county court clerk) Legal: Isaac Raney (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: John S. Scott (Harrison County, Kentucky, carpenter, postmaster, clerk, farmer, and justice of the peace) Legal: William P. Crosthwait (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: Charles Lail (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: Perry W. Stewart (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: Charles T. Wilson (Cynthiana, Kentucky, merchant.) Political: Robert J. Dabney (Harrison County, Kentucky, coach maker, druggist, and justice of the peace)

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. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 561. Harrison Circuit Court O00000405 1793 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 9th Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge(s): Samuel M. Moore and Joseph Doniphan. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William E. Arthur and Robert B. Carpenter. Clerk(s): J. S. Boyd and James F. Ware.

Relationships Legal: George Washington Burns (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Alfred L. Hyatt (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John H. Jackson (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Legal: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Legal: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Legal: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Legal: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Legal: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Legal: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Legal: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Legal: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

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. Harrison County, Kentucky 1864-02-09 Petition 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 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 Thos. E. Bramlette,

Governer of the Commonweath of Kentucky

The undersigned judge of the Harrison County Court would most respectfully represent that John. W. Phillips was indicted at the Nov Term ^1858^ of the Harrison Circuit Court for the murder of John Whalin. That at the Nov. term of said court for 1863, his bail bond for $850$1000 -- was forfeited, by his failing to appear ^(the sureties on said bond are perfectly solvent & residents of this county)^-- that he left the state in the fall of 1862 with the rebel forces, and that it has been represented that he was dead; but that such is not the fact. he is now in this or adjoining counties, and has been committing various and agravated crimes, The case for which he is indicted is a very agravated one. He is represented as a dangerous man, and one that is greatly feared by the citizens in his part of the county. He has so fer escaped both the vigilance of the military and civil authorities, and it is hoped and believed that a reward equal to the amt that will be due the State upon his forfeited bond will secure his arrest ^or the $500 -- by law provided,^. Given under my hand this 9th day of Feb 1864

M. L. Broadwell P. J. H. C

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Description of Phillips

He is about 33 years of age, spare made, light hair, light blue eyes, about five feet nine inches high, sallow complected, thin visage.

Harrison Co $500-- Reward for John M Phillips for Murder of John Whalin 12th Feby 1864