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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-0001-007-0390 BR2-303

Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland William P. Eaton (Baltimore, Maryland, politician and commissioner of deeds) N00005646 Categories: People

Baltimore, Maryland, politician and commissioner of deeds. Member of the Senate of the State of Maryland in 1865. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Baltimore in 1865.

Relationships Political: Reverdy Johnson (Baltimore, Maryland, attorney and politician) Legal: Allen E. Forrester (Baltimore, Maryland, clerk, printer, and justice of the peace)

"The Maryland Election," The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Md.), November 8, 1865, p. 1; KYR-0001-007-0371. 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. Allen E. Forrester (Baltimore, Maryland, clerk, printer, and justice of the peace) N00005645 1830? Categories: People

Baltimore, Maryland, clerk, printer, and justice of the peace. Maryland native. Married to Caroline Forrester. Father of Frank Forrester, William Forrester, Birgianna Forrester, and Morris Forrester. Clerk of the Second Branch of the Baltimore City Council in 1856. Member of the American Party. Printer in Baltimore in 1860. Justice of the peace for Baltimore in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 19, p. 50.; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 20, p. 254; "Organization of the City Council," The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Md.), November 20, 1856, p. 1. Maryland P00001160 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Annapolis. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

38.9784, -76.4922 "Annapolis, Maryland," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. James E. DiLisio and James H. Bready, "Maryland," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Maryland-state. Baltimore, Maryland P00003303 Categories: Places

City in Maryland. Located on the Chesapeake Bay.

39.2904, -76.6122 "Baltimore" in Encyclopedia Britannica (https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltimore) (accessed March 30, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, “Baltimore, Maryland," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 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. Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland 1865-03-04 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. 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 Maryland County & City of Baltimore } SS

I Willilam P. Eaton of the city of Baltimore, having been appointed by the Governor of the State of Kentucky, a commissioner in and for said city to take the acknowledgement and proof of the execution of deeds and other instruments of in writing under seal, to be used or recorded in said State of Kentucky, and to administer oaths or affirmations, do solemnly swear that I will well and faithfully execute and perform the duties of such commissioner, under and by virtue of the laws of the said state of Kentucky.

William P. Eaton A commissioner of the state of Kentucky

WILLIAM P. EATON A COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE OF Kentucky BALTIMORE, MD.

State of Maryland City & County of Baltimore } SS

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty five

Allen E. Forrester Justice of the Peace

3.4.1865 A. E. F.

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Maryland Comr Deeds Oath of Wm P. Eaton filed 21st Mch 1865