John W. Marques to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-11-25
- Date of Creation
- November 25, 1863
- Place of Creation
- Grant County, Kentucky
- 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
- BR9-8 to BR9-9
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-0316
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32203203
- People
- Kendall, Alfred
- Stewart, B.
- Carter, Burl N.
- Cunningham, Daniel L.
- Boys, David
- Burch, F.
- Wilson, Floyd
- Hodge, Frank
- Tully, Henry H.
- Jones, J. W.
- Lemmon, James
- Collins, James W.
- Hutchinson, James W.
- Neal, John C. L.
- Little, John
- Marksberry, John
- Marcus, John Mason
- Metcalfe, John
- Gouge, John Quincy
- Rains, John
- Marcus, John W.
- Savage, M. P.
- Marcus, Mary Ann
- Burnett, Mathew
- Owsley, Michael Henry
- Collins, Richard A.
- Marksbury, Samuel
- Franklin, Thomas A.
- Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
- Porter, Thomas S.
- Tully, William F.
- Frank, William G.
- Linn, William George
- Hume, William H.
- Annis, William S.
- Rankin, William S.
- Smith, William
- Marksberry Willis H., Sr.
- Simmons, Winston T.
Citation
John W. Marques to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1863-11-25, 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-0001-004-0316 (November 12, 2026).
To His Excellency Thos. E Bramlett Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The undersigned your petitioner John W. Marques of Grant County most respectfully states and represents that he became the bail of one John Neal upon his recognizance to answer to a charge of Felony in the Grant Circuit Court — that soon after your petitioner became the bail of the said John Neal as aforesaid the said John Neal was notified and required by a large ^number of^ determined and dangerous men to leave and forever abandon Grant County and not return to it under the penalty of death. That had the said Neal remained in or returned to Grant County to answer to said charge it would have been at the peril of his life as almost the entire community in which he lived embracing portions of the Counties of Grat, Harrison. Scott & Owen were greatly enraged and inflamed at and openly threatened his life upon his failing to leave or his return to Grant County. Neal abandoned the County, has never returned, did not appear
to answer said charge and at the
Judgment would break him up and leave him in poverty to support himself and a large family of daug children and grand children one of them deaf and dumb and including thewife^& seven children^ of a son and seven children who is a soldier in the Federal service in the Eighteenth Kentucky Regiment, Wherefore he most respectfully requests your Excelency to remit so much of the Judgment as is in ^within^ your constitutional power to do.
Grant County
John ^his X mark^ W Marques
attest
W S Rankin
The undersigned citizens and acquaintances of the above petitioner John W. Marques fully corroborate the statements set forth in this petition from their own personal knowledge and the most reliable information. and most respectfully and earnestly ask for him the relief sought
Grant Cir Ct
vs
Remit except fees & costs as to Marques
Tho E Bramlette
J. W. Marques.
Bail Bond
$800 —