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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0113 MG3-485 to MG3-486

Newark, Essex County, New Jersey James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) N00001223 1831-01-02 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, post office clerk, and state official. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas L. Tate and Nancy Taylor Tate. Married to Lucy J. Hawkins Tate in Woodford County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1856. Father of Howard S. Tate and Edmonia Tate. Clerk of the U.S. Post Office in Frankfort, Franklin County, in 1848. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Assistant secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1854 to 1855 and from 1859 to 1863. Owned two enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Assistant clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1865 to 1867.

Relationships Political: Benjamin F. Graves (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, judge, and politician.) Political: John Cawein (Louisville restaurant owner and merchant) Political: Thomas Sullivan (Louisville, Jefferson Co) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: George W. Thompson (Parke County, Indiana, merchant, attorney, deed commissioner, and court clerk) Political: William Alexander (Brandenburg, Meade Co. lawyer) Political: James F. Overton (Meade Co. Ky miller) Political: Enos Keith (Meade Co, Ky) Political: Alexander Bell Patrick (Breathitt Co & Cir Ct Clerk, private CSA) Political: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Economic: Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) Political: Theodore Dehon Rand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soldier and attorney) Political: Oscar J. Somes (McCracken County, Kentucky, bank teller and capt 3rd Ky Inf (C.S.A)) Political: Josiah Stoddard Byers (McCracken County, Kentucky, bookstore clerk, midshipman, captain 3rd Ky Inf CSA) Political: Commercial Bank of Kentucky Political: Executive Department, Kentucky (U.S.A.) Political: Thomas Dugan (Portsmouth, Ohio, banker and commissioner of deeds) Political: Charles James Brenham (San Francisco, California, notary public and commissioner of deeds) Political: Theodore M. Morgan (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, businessman and commissioner, captain 98th NY Inf USA) Political: State Department of Kentucky Political: Joseph Tucker (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, resident) Political: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Political: Office of the Secretary of State of Kentucky Political: John G. Douglass (Cincinnati, Ohio, attorney and commissioner of deeds) Legal: John Marshall Harlan (Kentucky atty general, colonel 10th Ky Inf (USA), and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 22B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 259. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 491B. James C. Klotter, "Tate, James W." in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 867-68. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994058, Woodford County Marriages. James F. Bond (Essex County, New Jersey, real estate agent and Ky Commissioner of Deeds) N00014410 1809? 1882? Categories: People

Essex County, New Jersey, real estate agent and commissioner. New Jersey native. Married to Caroline C. Smith Bond in Essex County, New Jersey, on February 19, 1834. Father of Henrietta Bond, Mary E. Bond, and John B. Bond. New Jersey state assemblyman from Essex County from 1859 to 1860. Real estate agent in Essex County in 1860. Employed Mary Tighe as a servant in Essex County in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for Kentucky in Essex County in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Supreme Court of New Jersey Legal: Daniel Haines (Sussex County, New Jersey, Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Governor) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Essex County, Newark Ward 5, p. 433B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, New Jersey, Essex County, Newark Ward 5, p. 669. "Monmouth Democrat 1860-01-12," Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/497422868 (accessed May 7, 2021). "Monmouth Inquirer 1859-11-19," Newspapers.com, https://www.newspapers.com/image/376023051 (accessed May 7, 2021). New Jersey Marriages, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey, Essex County Marriages, Film # 001301980, p. 244. New Jersey, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1739-1991, Applications for probate of wills, vol. 2-3, 1881-1886, Essex County Surrogate Court, p. 257. KYR-0001-031-0016. Newark, New Jersey P00014407 Categories: Places

City in Essex County, New Jersey.

40.7357, -74.1724 "Newark, New Jersey," from Encyclopedia Britannica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Newark-New-Jersey (accessed May 7, 2021). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Newark, New Jersey," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on May 7, 2021). New Jersey P00002517 Categories: Places

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

40.2171, -74.7429 John McLaughlin, Peter O. Wacker, and James Kerney, "New Jersey," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-Jersey. "Trenton, New Jersey," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Newark, Essex County, New Jersey 1861-03-15 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Newark N J. March 15/61 Jas W. Tate Esq. Asst Secy. of State

Yours came duly to hand, Please accept my thanks for the Kind note informing me that my commission had Expired, Enclosed please find Five Dollars. the State tax as required by your laws --

If satisfactory please forward the commission at your earliest convenience.

And oblige Yours truly

James F. Bond

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Comr of Deeds Jas. F. Bond Newark Com IssdMar 19. 1861