<title type="main">Allen Witt to Thomas E. Bramlette Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 2 edits between June 21, 2025 and June 21, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.

 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-0001-005-0106 BR7-180

Irvine, Estill 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 Wiseman (Estill County) N00006084 1830? Categories: People

Estill County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Resident in Estill County in 1850.

Relationships Legal: Clayton Witt (Estill County) Familial: Robert C. Wiseman (Estill County)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill, not stated, p. 203. Robert C. Wiseman (Estill County) N00006083 1832? Categories: People

Estill County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Resident in Estill County in 1850.

Relationships Legal: Clayton Witt (Estill County)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill, not stated, p. 202. Clayton Witt (Estill County) N00006085 1865-10-30 Categories: People

Murdered on October 30, 1865. Mentioned in a letter from Allen Witt to Thomas E. Bramlette.

KYR-0001-005-0106. Allen Witt (farmer, Estill County) N00006086 1813? Categories: People

Estill County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Farmer in Estill County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Estill, not stated, p. 128. Irvine, Kentucky P00005642 Categories: Places

Seat of Estill County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

37.7006, -83.9738 Ron D. Bryant, "Irvine" in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), p. 298, 457. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Irvine, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on September 23, 2019). 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). Estill County, Kentucky P00004776 Categories: Places

County in east central Kentucky. Seat at Irvine, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

37.6975, -83.9744 Ron D. Bryant, "Irvine" in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), p. 298. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Estill County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on November 12, 2019). Irvine, Estill County, Kentucky 1865-10-31 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
1

Irvine Ky 31st Oct 1865 To T. E. Bramlett Govenor of Kentucky Sir

John & Robert C Wiseman did on yesterday the 30th day, of October 1865 Shoot and Kill Clayton Witt in the County of Estill and are now running at large John Wiseman is about 350. years of age a small low heavy set a little stoop shoudered has a scar on his breast fom a shot while in the US. army dark hair, Robert C Wiseman is about 28 years old about 5. feet 10 Inches high light bule eyes and has a large scar on him from a burn as large as a small plate, now Governor will you be so good as to over a reward for them,

Yours respectfully Allen Witt