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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-0001-005-0132 BR7-204 to BR7-205

Franklin County, Kentucky John E. Murrah (merchant and Assistant Quartermaster of Kentucky) N00005440 1829? Categories: People

Russell County, Kentucky, merchant, soldier and assistant quartermaster of Kentucky. Merchant in Russell County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first lieutenant from December 23, 1863, to January 10, 1865. Captain and assistant quartermaster of Kentucky in Lebanon, Kentucky, in September 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Russell County, Russell, p. 707. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 364. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 938. KYR-0001-005-0132. C. B. Pratt (Franklin County, Kentucky, clerk) N00005441 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, clerk. Clerk to John E. Murrah, Assistant Quartermaster of Kentucky, in Lebanon, Kentucky in 1865. Accused of embezzling state funds and fleeing to Louisiana.

Relationships Legal: Thomas G. Slater, Sr. (Louisville, Kentucky, night policeman)

KYR-0001-005-0132. George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) N00002995 1808-02-11 1881-01-24 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant, politician, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Gwin. Father of Thomas J. Gwin and Kate L. Gwin. Married to Julia Ann Smith Gwin in Scott County, Kentucky, on October 27, 1853. Merchant in Franklin County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Mayor of Frankfort from 1857 to 1865. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Frankfort in 1860. Justice of the peace in Franklin County from 1861 to 1865. Member of the Frankfort City Council in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Legal: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Political: Franklin County Court Legal: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Grandison W. Owen (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 53B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 236. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 501B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 144A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film 000183225. L.F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky., reprinted edition (Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1975), p. 198. Carl E. Kramer, Capital on the Kentucky: A Two Hundred Year History of Frankfort & Franklin County (Frankfort, KY: Historic Frankfort, Inc., 1986), p. 120. "G W Gwin (1809-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 74517922, accessed May 24, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74517922. KYR-0001-005-0132. KYR-0001-007-0365. KYR-0001-019-0051. KYR-0001-004-0183. James Madison Wells (20th Governor of Louisiana) N00008427 1808-01-07 1899-02-28 Categories: People

Twentieth Governor of Louisiana. Alexandria, Louisiana native. Son of Levi Wells II and Dorcas Huie Wells. Married to Mary Ann Scott. Attended St. John's College in Bardstown, Kentucky, Partridge's Academy in Middletown, Connecticut, and Cincinnati Law School. Ninth Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 1864 to 1865. Governor of Louisiana from March 4, 1865 to June 3, 1867.

Relationships Legal: Thomas G. Slater, Sr. (Louisville, Kentucky, night policeman) Legal: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP)

Walter Greaves Cowan and Jack B. McGuire, Louisiana Governors: Rulers, Rascals, and Reformers, (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), p. 96-7. Thomas G. Slater, Sr. (Louisville, Kentucky, night policeman) N00005439 1835-10-30 1881-03-24 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, policeman. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Slater. Father of Thomas G. Slater, Jr., Emma L. Slater, Blanche Slater, and James H. Slater. Policeman in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Legal: William McGuire (Louisville, Kentucky, police officer) Legal: William Gannaway "Parson" Brownlow (Seventeenth governor of the State of Tennessee, newspaper editor, and politician.) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 8, p. 777. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, p. 417A. "Thomas Graves Slater Sr. (1833-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 207049003, accessed May 11, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207049003. KYR-0001-006-0106. 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. Lebanon, Kentucky P00002553 Categories: Places

Seat of Marion County, Kentucky.

37.5698, -85.2527 "Lebanon, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 30, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 168. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, 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. Franklin County, Kentucky 1865-12-16 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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State of Kentucky Franklin County } sct.

Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid John E. Murrah, Assisstant Quarter Master of the State of Kentucky and made oath, that in September 18645 he was on duty as Assisstant Quarter Master of Kentucky at the then Post of Lebanon Kyhe had in his employment as Clerk in his office as Quarter Master aforesaid C. B, Pratt, and on or about the 10th day of September 1865 the said C, B, Pratt, in his capacity of clerk aforesaid had placed under his care, and received into his possession, the sum of Twenty ^one^ Nine Hundred and ^ten^ ninety nine Dollars and Sixteen Cents, of money due to affiant as Quarter Master aforesaid, and which said C. B, Pratt undertook and was in duty bound to pay out to affiant, but which said sum of Twenty one Hundred and ten dollars said C, B, Pratt did unlawfully fraudulently and felloneously embezzle and Convert to his own use, said C, B, Pratt received said sum of money and Embbezzled the same in the County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky

J E Murrah Capt & A Q M Ky Vol

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Sworn to and Subscirbed by J. E. Murrah in due form before the undersigned a Justice of the peace for Franklin County this 16th day of Decr. 1865

Geo W Gwin J P.

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Requisition upon Gov of Louisiana for C B Pratt & apptd Thos Slater agent 16 Dec/65