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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-0001-017-0243 MG4-169

New York, New York County, New York 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. Joseph Benjamin Nones (New York County, New York, lawyer, commissioner of deeds, and notary) N00015115 1797? 1887? Categories: People

New York City, New York, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and notary public. Pennsylvania native. Son of Benjamin Nones and Miriam Marks Nones. Married to Eveline Leon Nones in New York City, New York, on July 24, 1823. Father of Serena Nones, Leonara Nones, Alexander H. Nones, and Emily D. Nones. Attorney in New York City in 1857. Attorney in New York City in 1861. Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky in New York City in 1861. Attorney in New York City in 1862. Notary in New York City in 1863. Attorney in New York County in 1865.

Relationships Political: State of New York Political: William Ponsonby Furniss (New York County, New York, merchant, lawyer, notary public, and commissioner of deeds) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Sylvester Lay (New York City, New York, attorney and government official) Political: Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, New York County, New York City, p. 373A. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, New York, Ny, Nones, National #52292, State 5348. United States, Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast (1704-1930), New York, New York Evening Post, Marriage, 1822-1825, p. 37. Trow’s New York City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1857 ed. H. Wilson (New York: John F. Trow, 1857), 621. Trow’s New York City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1861 ed. H. Wilson (New York: John F. Trow, 1861), 644. Trow’s New York City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1862 ed. H. Wilson (New York: John F. Trow, 1862), 640. Trow’s New York City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1863 ed. H. Wilson (New York: John F. Trow, 1863), 653. Trow’s New York City Directory for the Year Ending May 1, 1865 ed. H. Wilson (New York: John F. Trow, 1865), 661. KYR-0001-017-0165. New York City, New York P00002569 Categories: Places

City in New York County, New York. Located at the confluence of the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean.

40.7128, -74.0059 George Lankevich, "New York City" in Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-City. “New York, New York," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed April 15, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). New York, New York County, New York 1861-11-04 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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New York Novr 4. 1861 James W. Tate Esqr Sir.

I herewith enclose my oath of office -- will you have the kindnenss to advise me of its reception -- so that I may Know all is right.

Yours respectfully

J. B. Nones

James W. Tate Esqr Assistant Secty of State Frankfort Kty