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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-0001-005-0116 BR7-187

Joseph Covington (Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer) N00005408 1843? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Kentucky native. Farm laborer in Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott, District 1, p.81. 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. Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) N00005190 1823-08-04 1877-11-01 Categories: People

Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician. Wayne County, Indiana, native. Son of James Throck Morton and Sarah Miller Morton. Married to Lucinda M. Burbank Morton in Wayne County, Indiana, on May 15, 1845. Father of John M. Morton, Mary E. Morton, Lilias Morton, Walter S. Morton, and Oliver Throck Morton. Attended Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1843. Read law with John S. Newman in Wayne County, Indiana, in 1845. Admitted to the bar in Indiana in 1847. Attorney in Wayne County in 1850. Circuit judge for the 6th Judicial District of the State of Indiana in 1852. Member of the Republic Party. Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State of Indiana in 1856. Attorney in Wayne County in 1860. Lieutenant Governor of the State of Indiana from January 14, 1861, to January 16, 1861. Governor of the State of Indiana from January 16, 1861, to January 24, 1867, following the resignation of Henry S. Lane.

Relationships Legal: Charles B. Lewis, Jr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Vanderburgh Circuit Court Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: State of Indiana Political: Government of the United States of America Political: Executive Department, Indiana Military: United States War Department Military: 57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Political: Warren Horr (Clark County, Indiana, sheriff, merchant, capt & maj 4th IN Cav USA) Political: William A. Peelle (Randolph County, Indiana, attorney and secretary of state) Legal: Francis "Frank" Smith (Clark County, Indiana, day laborer) Political: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Political: Sally E. Grant (Louisville, Kentucky, resident.) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) Legal: Charles W. White (Garrard County Kentucky. ) Legal: James Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: Green Slaughter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: David C. Hall (Meade County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Adam Stephens (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, grocer. ) Political: Willis Marion Hughes (Clark County, IN, resident) Political: William J. Roberts (Clark County, Indiana, farm laborer. Fugitive from justice.) Political: William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff) Political: Charles P. Jacobs (Indianapolis, Indiana, attorney, deputy clerk, and private sec. to Gov. Oliver P. Morton) Political: James Blythe Hynes (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and major (U.S.A.)) Political: Charles Emerson Marsh (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney ) Legal: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant) Legal: Andrew Lucas Robinson (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, politician, attorney, and customs surveyor) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Sheriff of Clark County, Indiana, in 1865.) Legal: Samuel H. McCarty (Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, farmer and fugitive from justice) Legal: John Rider (Clark County, Indiana, fugitive from justice.) Legal: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Legal: Melvin Weir (Clark County, Indiana, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace.) Political: William H. Evans (Louisville, Kentucky, steamboat pilot) Political: Indiana State Prison South

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 170B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Wayne County, Centerville, p. 21. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 9, p. 592A. William Dudley Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton: Including His Important Speeches, vol. I (Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1899). A. James Fuller, Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Kent, OH.: Kent State University Press, 2017). Oliver P. Morton of Indiana: Sketch of His Life and Public Services (Indianapolis, IN: Journal Company, Printers, 1876). Charles Manning Walker, Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver P. Morton (Indianapolis, IN: Indianapolis Journal, 1878). "Lilias Morton (1850-1852)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78619930, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78619930. "Mary E Morton (1848-1849)," Find A Grave, Memorial 78620060, accessed September 7, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78620060. Charles B. Lewis, Jr. (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005410 1837? Categories: People

Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Charles B. Lewis and Pauline Lewis. Farmer in Scott County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Joseph Covington (Scott County, Kentucky, farm laborer) Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Scott, District 1, p. 54. Paynes Depot, Kentucky P00005406 Categories: Places

Settlement in southern Scott County, Kentucky.

38.142, -84.6236 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988), 228. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Paynes Depot, Kentucky" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 23, 2019). Georgetown, Kentucky P001838 Categories: Places

Seat of Scott County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.5588 “Georgetown,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 371. "Georgetown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Shelbyville, Indiana P00005409 Categories: Places

Seat of Shelby County, Indiana.

39.5214, -85.7769 Ronald L. Baker and Marvin Carmony, Indiana Place Names (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1975), 151. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Shelbyville, Indiana" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on December 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). Franklin County, Kentucky P001019 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Frankfort. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Franklin County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 354-56. 1865-11-08 Legal/Financial English 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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I had a hore Stolen from my Stable on the turnpike road Leading from Paynes Dept to Gegetown foer miles from the latter place on the night of the thirteenth of September last and ^have^ good reasons to beleve that Joseph Covington Stole the Said horse, Said Covington has been arrested in the State of Indiana and is now in Jail at Shelbyville in that State -- This affidavit is made for the purpose of enabling me to obtain a requisition from his Excellency the governor of Kentucky on the governor of Indiana for Said Covington that he may be brought to Kentuckyfor trial --

Chs. B. Lewis Jr

Subscribed and Sworn to before the underSigned a Justice of the peace for Franklin County this 8th day of Novr. 1865

Geo W. Gwin J. P.

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Requisition Upon Gov of Indiana for Jos Covington & Chas B. Lewis Jr Apptd Agent to 8th Nov 1865