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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-0001-017-0291 MG4-227 to MG4-228

Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island 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. Henry Martin (Providence County, Rhode Island, justice of the peace, notary public, and commissioner of deeds) N00018726 1792-06-11 1879-03-05 Categories: People

Providence County, Rhode Island, conveyancer, justice of the peace, notary public, and commissioner of deeds. Rhode Island native. Married to Marcy Sheldon Martin in Providence County, Rhode Island, on October 6, 1811. Father of Julia H. Martin and Sarah S. Martin Fogg. Conveyancer in Providence County, Rhode Island, in 1850. Notary public in Providence County in 1853. Justice of the peace in in Providence County in 1853. Commissioner of deeds in Providence County in 1853. Notary public in Providence County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Providence County in 1860. Commissioner of deeds in Providence County in 1860. Notary public in Providence County in 1861. Commissioner of deeds for Kentucky in Rhode Island in 1862. Notary public in Providence County in 1863. Justice of the peace in Providence County in 1863. Notary public in Providence County in 1865. Justice of the peace in Providence County in 1865.

Relationships 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, Kentucky, Providence County, Providence, Ward 4, p. 227B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Providence County, Providence, District 2, p. 5. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Providence County, Providence, District 2, p. 238B-239A. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636-1850 Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, vol. 17, p. 469. The Providence Directory Containing Names of the Inhabitants, Their Occupations, Places of Business and of Residence, (Providence: H.H. Brown, 1853), 207. The Providence Directory, Containing a General Directory of the Citizens, Business Directory and City Record and a Variety of Useful Information, (Providence: Adams, Sampson & Co., 1860), 97. The Providence Directory, Containing a General Directory of the Citizens, Business Directory and City Record and a Variety of Useful Information, (Providence: Adams, Sampson & Co., 1861), 184. The Providence Directory, Containing a General Directory of the Citizens, Business Directory and City Record of the City Government, (Providence: Adams, Sampson & Co., 1863), 95. The Providence Directory, Containing a General Directory of the Citizens, Business Directory and City Record of the City Government, (Providence: Adams, Sampson & Co., 1865), 104. "Henry Martin (1792-1879)," Find A Grave, Memorial 33496753, accessed October 3, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33496753. KYR-0001-017-0291 Providence, Rhode Island P00018725 Categories: Places

Capital of Rhode Island. Seat of Providence County, Rhode Island. Located on Narragansett Bay and the Providence River.

41.8329, -71.4376 "Providence, Rhode Island," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed October 3, 2022, https://www.britannica.com/place/providence-rhode-island. "Providence, Rhode Island," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 3, 2022, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Rhode Island P00002519 Categories: Places

State in the northeastern United States. Capital at Providence. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

41.824, -71.4128 Bradford Fuller Swan, Marion I. Wright, and J. Stanley Lemons, "Rhode Island," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Rhode-Island-state. "Providence, Rhode Island," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island 1862-01-09 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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Providence Rhode Island January 9' A.D. 1862. James W Tate Esq

Dr Sir. Herewith please find enclosed $5 -- being the amount required to be paid for a Commission

Very respectfully Henry Martin