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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-0001-005-0038 BR7-67 to BR7-68

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. George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) N00005262 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, resident. Petitioned for, and was granted, the remission of imprisonment and fine.

Relationships Military: United States Army Legal: Fayette Circuit Court

KYR-0001-005-0038. Will A. Stivers (Fayette County, Kentucky, sign printer and notary) N00005263 1817? Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, sign printer and notary. Kentucky native. Sign printer and notary in Fayette County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, Lexington, p. 84. George W. Stoll, Jr. (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) N00005264 1841-12-22 1914-06-27 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of George W. Stoll, Sr., and Mary Jane Stoll. Married to Julia H. Stoll. Father of Hamilton Stoll. Student in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident of Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington District 2, p. 199B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 569. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 204A. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 1, p. 274D. Find A Grave, “George W Stoll (1841-1914),” Memorial #98418314, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98418314/george-w-stoll (accessed June 4, 2017). B. L. Burnet (Lexington petitioner) N00005265 Categories: People

Appeared in a petition to Thomas E. Bramlette for the remission of a fine and the imprisonment of George Payne.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-005-0038. B. T. Bealert (manufacturer in Lexington, KY) N00005266 1804? 1889 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, manufacturer. Pennsylvania native. Manufacturer in Lexington in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, District 2, p. unknown. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, Lexington, p. 111. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, District 2, p. 609. E. Franz (Lexington telegraph operator) N00005267 1836? Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, telegraph operator. New York native. Telegraph operator in Lexington in 1860.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, Lexington, p. 110. Chas Reid () N00005268 Categories: People

Signed a petition for the remission of imprisonment and fine on behalf of George Payne.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident)

KYR-0001-005-0038. John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) N00004824 1825? Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Clerk of the Fayette Circuit Court in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1867. Owned two enslaved persons and hired two additional enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860.

Relationships Political: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Fayette Circuit Court Legal: George Washington Dupee (Lexington, Kentucky, free black Baptist pastor) Legal: General Douglas (Lexington, Kentucky) Legal: Nathan Bibb (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, livery man) Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Legal: Charles F. Lowry (Fayette County, Kentucky merchant and deputy clerk) Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 570. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 4, p. 460B. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1860), 290. 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), 305. 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), 11. 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. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867, (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, 1867), 355. "John B. Norton (1825-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 14804316, accessed September 5, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14804316/john-b-norton. Charles F. Lowry (Fayette County, Kentucky merchant and deputy clerk) N00005269 1819? Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, merchant and deputy court clerk. Kentucky native. Father of Eliza Jane Lowry. Married to Miranda H. Payne Lowry. Father of Susan H. Lowry, Mary F. Lowry, J. H. Lowry, William F. Lowry, Melvin T. Lowry, and John B. Lowry, Julia B. Lowery, Miranda P. Lowry. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1840. Owned fifteen enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1840. Merchant in Jessamine County in 1850. Employed George M. Neal and Meredith Masters as merchants in Jessamine County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1850. Merchant in Lexington in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Lexington in 1860. Deputy clerk in the Fayette Circuit Court in March 1864.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 222. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 74B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 708. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 597. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 458B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 2, p. 236B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Film #994042: Jessamine County Births, p. 3. KYR-0001-004-0931. William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge) N00005270 1805-10-07 1870-08-14 Categories: People

Fayette County, Kentucky, judge. Kentucky native. Son of William Goodloe and Susan Woods Goodloe. Married to Almira Owsley Goodloe. Father of Archibald Henry Goodloe and Mary Goodloe. Circuit judge of the 13th Judicial District in Fayette and Madison Counties from 1859 to 1862.

Relationships Social: George Payne (Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: Charles F. Lowry (Fayette County, Kentucky merchant and deputy clerk) Legal: Francis M. Searcy (Madison County, Ky, farmer) Legal: Madison Circuit Court Economic: Madison Circuit Court Social: Woods Caperton (Madison County, KY, attorney) Legal: William S. Taylor (Madison County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Elijah K. Howard (Madison County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: James Bennett McCreary (Madison County, KY, attorney&major & Lt col in 11th KY Cav CSA, POW) Legal: Madison County Court Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Social: Jesse J. Hunt (Fayette County, Kentucky, merchant and clerk. ) Social: James B. Beck (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (Fayette County, Kentucky, lawyer, slaveholder, and colonel of 9th KY Cav (CSA))

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Division 1, p. 376. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289. 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), 304. 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), 304. 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), 299. United States of America P001802 Categories: Places

Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

38.8951, -77.0364 Karl Patterson Schmidt et al., "United States" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/United-States) (accessed May 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Washington, District of Columbia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 29, 2020). Fayette County, Kentucky P001031 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Lexington.

38.0406, -84.5037 "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 99. 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/. Fayette Circuit Court O00000377 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): John B. Norton.

Relationships Legal: John C. Cable (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Economic: Charles Scott Todd Bodley (Fayette County, Kentucky, bookseller and sheriff) Legal: B. F. Barnes (Fayette Co, KY, mule stealer) Legal: George Washington Brand (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer and bank director) Economic: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William S. Downey (Bourbon County, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John B. Norton (Fayette County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: William Harrison Keith (Plymouth, Massachussetts, salesman and soldier (U.S.A.)) Legal: William C. Goodloe (Fayette and Madison co , KY, circuit court judge)

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. United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

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To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky,

Your petitioner respectfully represents that he was indicted at the last February Term of the Fayette Circuit Court for assault and battery that he has been tried and found guilty and a fine of $100; and three months imprisonment assessed against him. While he admits the simple fact of having committed the offense charged he consider; the puneshment very severe, He says he is without money or friends and unless the fine and imprisonment is remitted he will have to stay in Jail for about 140 days. In order to avoid this disagreeable necessity, he proposes and promises that if he is released that he will join the U S. Army for three years or during the war, That he as always been a Union man, loyal to his government.

W. A. S. June 24 1864.

He prays that your excellency will remit his imprisonment and that part of the fine in your power and that you will respite the ^residue^ case for, say three months

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by which time he will be able pay the ^Commonwealths^ Attorney and other officers their fees, Which is respectfully submitted

George Payne

Sworn to before me this 24 June 1864

Will: A. Stivers. Notary Public.

FAYETTE COUNTY, KY.

The undersigned unite in the prayer of the petitioner

G. Stoll Jr

B L Burnet

B. T. Bealert

E Franz

Chas Reid.

Jno B Norton

Chas F Lowry

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Fayette Cir Ct vs George Payne

Remitted upon condition he enlists for three years

Tho E Bramlette Govr

11th July/64

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Provided George Payne will join the army for three years or during the war the undersigned would respectfully recommend a remission of the fine and imprisonment against him,

W C Goodloe Circuit Judge

Lexington Ky June 23 1864