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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-0001-017-0285 MG4-220

Sacramento, Sacramento County, California William Garrison English (Sacramento County, California, broker and commissioner of deeds) N00014773 1819 1878-08-16 Categories: People

Sacramento County, California, broker and commissioner of deeds. New York native. Married to Elizabeth C. English. Father of L. G. English. Broker in Sacramento County in 1860. Employed Ah Tom as a servant in Sacramento County in 1860. Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky in Sacramento County in 1861.

Relationships Legal: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, California, Sacramento County, Sacramento, Ward 4, p. 608. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, California, Sacramento County, Sacramento, Ward 4, p. 291B-292A. "Death of English," The Bee (Sacramento, CA), August 17, 1878, p. 5. "William Garrison English (1818-1878)," Find A Grave, Memorial 105714424, accessed June 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105714424. KYR-0001-017-0114 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. Sacramento, California P00014772 Categories: Places

Capital of California. Seat of Sacramento County, California. Located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River.

38.5816, -121.4944 "History," City of Sacramento, http://www.cityofsacramento.org/fire/about/history (accessed June 15, 2021). USGS: Earth Explorer_, "Sacramento, California," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on June 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). 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). Sacramento, Sacramento County, California 1862-01-01 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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Sacramento Jan 1' 1862, Dear Sir

Yr favor of 28' Nov rec'd, and in reply would state that I fwd oath of office, and fee for new Commission on receipt of same, and now hand your new oath of office with impression of seal & should not find that the charge of new Commission has been rec'd at your office I will again remit as I did before in 10¢ U.S. postage Stamps providing I cannot obtain a U.S. Treasury note for that amt which are very scarce in this distant land.

Very Respcy yr obt svt

Wm G. English

Hon Jas W. Tate asst Secy of State Frankft

WILLIAM G ENGLISH COMMISSIONER FOR "Kentucky" SACRAMENTO CA.