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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-007-0065 BR1-452 to BR1-453

Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1863-11-16 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "5": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "5": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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 Pennsylvania County of Allegheny City of Pittsburgh } Sct.

I, Benjamin F. Blood residing in Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, appointed by the Governor of the State of Kentucky, a Commissioner of Deeds for the said State of Kentucky, to take depositions, acknowledgment of deeds &c. to be used or recorded in the said State of Kentucky, do solemnly swear that I will well and truly Execute and perform all the duties of such commissioner, under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kentucky.,

Benjamin F., Blood

Taken and subscribed this 16th day of November A. D. 1863. before me

A S Nicholson Alderman; and Ex. Officio a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Allegheny

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ALLEGHENY COUNTY, State of Pennsylvania. } SS.

0H E 11 Nov 1863

I, HENRY EATON, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify that A S. Nicholson Esquire, before whom the foregoing afft was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time, and now is, an alderman in and for the City of Pittsburgh and EX-OFFICIO an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take acknowldgements, administer oaths, &c.; to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Pittsburgh, in the said county, this 16th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America the eighty-Eight

Henry Eaton Prothonotary. JONSTONS PRINT

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An impression of my official seal as commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky Nov, 16,, 1863

Benj. F. Blood

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An impression of my Official Seal as Commissions of Deeds for the State of Kentucky Nov. 16, 1863 Benj. F. Blood

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Pennsylvania Oath B. F. Blood Comr of Deeds