Petition

D. D. Husbands 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
BR10-217 and BR10-217A
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0788
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Dates
1864-04-26
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D. D. Husbands 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-0001-004-0788 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlett
Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioners citizens of McCracken County Respectfully represent to your Excellency — that one Freeling now in state penetentiary was sent there from McCracken County upon charges of making an assault upon a woman with intent to committ a rape. We do not believe he had any such intention — she was seen to kiss him before the offence complained of. We think his a hard case — he has served some three or four years already — and we believe he is a proper subject for the exercise of Executive Clemency — which we respectfully ask on his behalf and as matter of justice to one whom we believe was improperly convicted.

Respectfully
D. D. Husbands

H. M. Redd
R. T. Boon
E R Bradshaw
G, F, Kelly
C Barkman
J H [Gandrum]
B. H. Milliken
Wm W. Herndon
John P Hart

Gov Bramlette — I defended Mr Freeling on the above charge and I candidly beleive he was convicted mor through excitement, than from evidence, and I wou[ld b]e gratified to have him pardoned.

T J Birchett
W. H. Thompson
J. A. N. Hobbs
J K [...]
W L Sullivan
J. J. McIntosh
W, J, Agnew
J. W. Ogilvie
G W Ratcliffe
J. W. Cole
L S Garrett
G. Y. Barnes
William. C. Start

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Josiah Harris Jr
W A Peters
G. W. Thompson
B H Shanklin
A Loveless
Dee Hankshoe
T J Atkins
A A Jones
Wm Sockwood
Albert H Noble
L Schnoeder
Sam Williamson
James D. Moss
N D C Johnson
Sargeant Moss
Francis M Skaggs
Wm Williams
W M Saillors
Benet [Wilkamp]
M Edw Wharton
M. M Pierce
J B Walker
G. W. Kirke
John Merideth
James Venner
W. T. Phillips
Wm Merit
T. W. Clark
James Clark
D. M. Clark
F. G. Gilbert

L. S Ellithorp
U F Ellithorp
T. J. Mchall
Daniel Marshall
J W Allen
B W Petty
W E Anvis
J O Mortimer
Cap. A [Martin]
John. A, Miller
W. V. Hicks
J C Miller
J. G. Fisher
S Leonard
J. S. Smedly
E. M. Birchett
J. W. Cooksey
L. Wray
M. Ochschlager
W. W. Straud
J. W. Harrison
Wilson Thompson
W. L. H. Ross

I Sertify to what J Q A King has said as I was presant at the cort that he was tried in
T. J. Birchett R. P.
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McCracken Cir Ct
vs
W. Freeling

Issue Pardon
Tho E. Bramlette

26th Apl/64