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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-0001-007-0319 BR2-212

San Francisco, San Francisco County, California N. Proctor Smith (San Francisco, California, mariner, broker, conveyaneer, and commissioner of deeds) N00001139 1799? 1880-02-15 Categories: People

San Francisco, California, mariner, broker, conveyancer, and commissioner of deeds. South Danvers, Massachusetts, native. Master mariner in San Francisco in 1861. Real estate broker in San Francisco in 1862. Commissioner of deeds and conveyancer for Kentucky in San Francisco in 1863 and 1865.

Relationships Legal: Ebenezer Davis Sawyer (San Francisco, California, attorney and judge)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, California, San Francisco, Ward 8, p. 93; "Deaths," Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Calif.), February 16, 1880, p. 3; San Francisco Directory, For the Year Commencing September, 1861, Henry G. Langley, comp. (San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: valentine & Co., 1861), p. 312 (accessed via Ancestry.com); San Francisco Directory, For the Year Commencing September, 1862, Henry G. Langley, comp. (San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: Valentine & Co., 1862), p. 359 (accessed via Ancestry.com); San Francisco Directory, For the Year Commencing September, 1863, Henry G. Langley, comp. (San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: Valentine & Co., 1863), p. 333 (accessed via Ancestry.com); San Francisco Directory, For the Year Commencing September, 1864, Henry G. Langley, comp. (San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: Valentine & Co., 1864), p. 367 (accessed via Ancestry.com); San Francisco Directory, For the Year Commencing September, 1865, Henry G. Langley, comp. (San Francisco: Commercial Steam Presses: Valentine & Co., 1865), p. 407 (accessed via Ancestry.com); KYR-0001-007-0319. 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. Ebenezer Davis Sawyer (San Francisco, California, attorney and judge) N00001138 1825? 1902-06-20 Categories: People

San Francisco, California, attorney and judge. New York native. Married Lavinia T. Sawyer. Father of Anna L. Sawyer, William T. Sawyer, Carrie M. Sawyer, and Edely E. Sawyer. Moved to California in 1851. Attorney in San Francisco from 1852 to 1902. District judge for the 4th Judicial District of California in 1863 and 1864.

Relationships Political: 4th District Court of California Legal: 4th District Court of California

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, California, San Francisco, District 8, p. 21; "Judge E.D. Sawyer Dead," The San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, Calif.), June 21, 1902, p. 8; "The Templar Guard," Santa Cruz Weekly Sentinel (Santa Cruz, Calif.), July 02, 1864, p. 2; Find A Grave, "Ebenezer Davis Sawyer (1825-1902)," Memorial #XXXXXXXX, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=SAW&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=6&GScntry=4&GSsr=561&GRid=14026028& (accessed March 29, 2017). San Francisco, California P00006526 Categories: Places

City and county of San Francisco, California. The city and county were coexistent in 1856. Located on the Pacific Ocean.

37.775, -122.4194 Gladys Cox Hansen, Kenneth Lamott, and Barnaby Conrad, "San Francisco," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 23, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Francisco-California. "San Francisco, California," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. California P00002428 Categories: Places

State in the far western United States. Capital at Sacramento. Located on the Pacific Ocean.

38.5816, -121.4944 Gregory Lewis McNamee and Neil Morgan, "California" in Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/California-state (accessed on May 25, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Sacramento, California," 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. 4th District Court of California O00001137 Categories: Organizations

Contains San Francisco County, California in 1864.

KYR-0001-007-0319 San Francisco, San Francisco County, California 1864-11-09 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Nov 9/64 E D S 29

City and County of San Francisco

State of California } S S.

I, N. Proctor Smith, duly appointed by the Governor of the State of Kentucky, a Commissioner for the State of Kentucky, resident at the City and County of San Francisco, in the State of California. do Solemnly Swear, that I will well and faithfully execute and perform all the duties of Such Commissioner under and by virtue of the laws of Said State of Kentucky,

N. Proctor Smith

Sworn and Subscribed before me this the Ninth day of November A. D. 1864

E. D. Sawyer District Judge Fourth Judicial District

N. PROCTOR SMITH, COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE OF KENTUCKY STATE OF CALIFORNIA.

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Comr of Deeds Oath of N Proctor Smith California filed 6th Dec/64