Petition

T. M. McCarty et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR8-383 to BR8-384
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0246
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FTP Identifier
32203133

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Dates
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1863-11-16
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T. M. McCarty et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0246 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thos E Bramlett
Governor of the state of Kentucky your petioners would respectfully represent that William L Johnson was at the October term of the Trimble Circuit Court fined Seventy Five dollars for stabing James. Bell, on the premises of your petioner, William L. Johnson an act which he was provoked to do, by threatening language which his victim used toward him, and further he would represent that he is poor and unable to pay the find, and has a family of a wife an Two children, And William L. Johnson, prays you that he is a law abiding man has never solicited any difficulty with no person, and that he sacrificed his former home, and moved Ten miles of from his persecutors to avoid further difficulty, and he would pray you to remit his find or as much of it as your Excellency may judge propper

T M McCarty
Geo Mullikin
Jas. B. Cook
George Wright
B G. Wright
T, E, Skidmore
R H [King]
D S Lane
E Ray
L. [Aikens]
W P Maddox
F A Adams

J. Y. Newkirk
John, J, Morgan
John W. Stewart
Jos. F. Pittman
T. B gatewood
A. J Wright
W. J. Wright
J T Ladd Md
Greenup W. Cholson
C. Ulley
Wm. Herrel
J H Lane

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Wm J Parker
J B Pierce
Thomas Jones
David gilham
P. R. Smith,
A Burnett
J Lingate
J G C Carraco
C B berry
J. F. Young
H. W Gaar
Jesse J Jones
William Robbins
Silas Gatewood
G R Larue
Thos [Olinard]
Henry Larue sr
J M Staples
James Staples
Henesey T Canada
W, Strattone P. M.

Trimble Cir Ct
vs
Wm L. Johnson
$75—
Stabbing
Respited 12 Mos
16th Nov 1863