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Baltimore, Maryland Jabez D. Pratt (Baltimore County, Maryland, attorney. ) N00017805 1819-12-11 1865-03-03 Categories: People

Baltimore County, Maryland, agent and commissioner of deeds. Suffolk County, Massachusetts, native. Married to Mary C. Kowse in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, on March 7, 1840. Father of Joseph Pratt and Charles Pratt. Married to Lucy S. Buck Pratt in New Haven County, Connecticut, on September 30, 1848. Father of Albert Pratt, Frank Pratt, Baron Pratt, and Louis. Agent in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1850. Agent in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1860. Employed Ann Somers, Bridget Somers, Kate Katcher, and Nathan Loney as servants in Baltimore County in 1860.

Relationships Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 14, p. 429B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 20, p. 208. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Ward 12, p. 286A. Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Boston, Marriages, 1800-1849, Vol. 2, pp. 209-210. "Marriages," The Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), October 12, 1848. "Jabez D. Pratt (1819-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial #35496322, accessed June 24, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35496322/jabez-d-pratt. 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. 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). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. 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). Baltimore, Maryland 1861-10-29 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Balto Oct 29/61 Dear Sir,

Enclosed please find oath of office as a Commr of Ky to be filed in the proper department

Very Resply J. D. Pratt

Jas W. Tate Esq Frankfort Ky