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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, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-006-0019 BR6-21

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana 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. Thomas Fitzmaurice (Allen County, Indiana, railroad laborer and soldier.) N00019816 1842? Categories: People

Allen County, Indiana, railroad laborer and soldier. Native of Ireland. Railroad laborer in Allen County, Indiana, in 1860. Served in the 30th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 24, 1861, to December 10, 1862. Reported as deserted on December 10, 1862. Indicted for grand larceny in Allen County in December 1863. Reported as a fugitive from justice in Allen County in January 1864. Prisoner in Indiana State Prison North in LaPorte County, Indiana, from February 15, 1864, to September 21, 1867.

Relationships Legal: William Fleming (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff and clerk of the Allen County Circuit Court.) Legal: William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff) Legal: Moses Vail Jenkinson (Allen County, Indiana, attorney) Legal: James H. Schell (Allen County, Indiana, prosecutor) Legal: Edward R. Wilson (Allen County, Indiana, judge) Legal: James A. Fay (Allen County, Indiana, attorney and judge.) Legal: Indiana State Prison North Legal: Allen Circuit Court Legal: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Legal: James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) Legal: State of Indiana

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Allen County, Fort Wayne, p. 825. Index to Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Indiana, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M540, Roll 0024. "Military," Indiana Archives Digital Index Records, accessed April 21, 2023, https://researchindiana.iara.in.gov/DigitalRecords/Detail.html?WORKFILENAME=NDX00114&WORKRECORDID=61471. "Department of Correction," Indiana Archives Digital Index Records, accessed April 21, 2023, https://researchindiana.iara.in.gov/DigitalRecords/Detail.html?WORKFILENAME=NDX00151&WORKRECORDID=2931. 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. William T. Pratt (Allen County, Indiana, sheriff) N00019819 1825? 1890-12-12 Categories: People

Allen County, Indiana, sheriff. Maryland native. Married to Elizabeth Aveline Pratt in Miami County, Indiana. Father of Joseph B. Pratt and Mary M. Pratt. Clerk in Allen County, Indiana, in 1850. Assistant U.S. Marshall in Allen County in 1860. Sheriff of Allen County from 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Allen Circuit Court Legal: Thomas Fitzmaurice (Allen County, Indiana, railroad laborer and soldier.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Allen County, Fort Wayne, p. 104B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Allen County, Fort Wayne, p. 987. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Allen County, Fort Wayne Ward 3, p. 301B. "Death of W.T. Pratt," The Fort Wayne Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN), December 13, 1890, p. 4. James S. Athon (Marion County, IN, physician and Secretary of State) N00019673 1811-04-11 1875-10-25 Categories: People

Marion County, Indiana, physician and politician. Louden County, Virginia, native. Married to Rebecca Athon. Father of Henrietta W. Athon, Marietta W. Athon, and James S. Athon, Jr. Married to Lavenia D. Athon. Physician in Clark County, Indiana, in 1850. Served as the Superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane in Marion County, Indiana, from 1853 to 1861. Physician in Marion County in 1860. Served as the Secretary of State for the State of Indiana from 1863 to 1865.

Relationships Political: State of Indiana

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Clark County, Charlestown, p. 100A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Wayne Township, p. 648. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Wayne Township, pp. 731-9. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Marion County, Indianapolis Ward 2, p. 48B. John Curwen, History of the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane, from 1844 to 1884, Inclusive: With a List of the Different Hospitals for the Insane, and the Names and Dates of Appointment and Resignation of the Medical Superintendents (Warren, PA: E. Cowan & Co., 1885), 201. William Wesley Woollen, Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana (Indianapolis: Hammond & Co., 1883), 478-9. "Dr James Sanderson Athon (1811-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial 17720708, accessed March 30, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17720708. 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/. 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). Indianapolis, Indiana P001820 Categories: Places

Capital of Indiana. Seat of Marion County, Indiana. Located at the confluence of the White River and Fall Creek.

39.7684, -86.158 "Indianapolis," in Encyclopaedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indianapolis-Indiana, (accessed April 13, 2018). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Indianapolis, Indiana," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 15, 2021). 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. Allen Circuit Court O00000339 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 4th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Asher W. Graham. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): W. B. Jones. Clerk(s): John E. Moore and Robert F. Pulliam.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306; “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Government of the United States of America O00002945 1776-07-04 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the United States of America. Comprised of the Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, and Executive Branch. Capital at Washington, District of Columbia.

Relationships Military: 68th Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia Economic: Hiram Barney (New York attorney and customs collector) Political: Leonard B. Cox (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Political: William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: George Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer) Political: Hillary G. Jackson (Bullitt County, Kentucky, laborer & private 26th KY Inf USA) Legal: William J. Wadlington (Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer. ) 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: George W. Rasure (Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: Amaziah "Samuel" Rasure (Washington County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Military: David Rasure, Jr. (New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana, resident and soldier.) Political: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Political: Robert Alexander Dowell (Crittenden County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Walter Rutherford (Crittenden County, Kentucky, barkeeper and merchant)

"America's Founding Documents," https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs (accessed on December 1, 2017). Adams Express Company O00014951 1854-07-01 Categories: Organizations

Express company in Boston, Massachusetts, with a branch in Louisville, Kentucky. Operated in 1860. Founder: Alvin Adams. Louisville agent: Samuel A. Jones.

“Our History,” Adams Funds, accessed July 7, 2021, https://www.adamsfunds.com/about/history/. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 291. KYR-0001-017-0130. Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana 1864-02-04 Legal/Financial 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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REQUISITION FOR FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY, The Governor of the State of Kentucky

It appears by the annexed papers, duly authenticated according to the laws of our Stateo, that Thomas Fitzmorris stands charged by Indictment of the Allen Circuit Court with the crime of Grand Larceny and it has been represented to me that he has fled from the justice of this State and has taken refuge in the State of Kentucky

Now Therefore, I O P Morton Governor of the State of Indiana, by virture of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, do, by these presents, demand that the said Thomas Fitzmorris be apprehended and delivered to William T Pratt who is hereby authorized to receive and convey him to the State of Indiana, that he may abide his trial for the crime with which he stands charged "The State will pay no part of the expenses of the execution of this Writ."

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, at the City of Indianapolis this fourth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=four, the forty eighth year of the State, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty eighth

BY THE GOVERNOR, O. P. Morton James S. Athon Secretary of State.

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Requisition Govr of Indiana upon which Warrant issued 8th Feby 1864 sent by Express