Legal/Financial

G. N. Wood, Affidavit

1864-06-27

Date of Creation
June 27, 1864
Place of Creation
Madison County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
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
BR10-460 to BR10-461
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0949
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FTP Identifier
32203836

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1864-06-27
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1864-06-27
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G. N. Wood, Affidavit, 1864-06-27, 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-0001-004-0949 (November 14, 2026).

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Madison Circuit Court
Comth
agst } Indict Tippling House
G. N. Wood

The affiant Wood states that at the March Term of the Madison Circuit Court for 1862. The Grand Jury for said County found a true bill against him for Keeping a Tippling House

That said case was postponed from time to time till the March Term of said Court 1864 at which court a Judgment was rendered against him by default for $60 & costs

He states that the reason he was not in attendance at the court aforesaid he was confined to his bed by sickness and that he was wholly unable to attend. He says he is not guilty as charged in the indictment and that upon a trial the Commonwealth would have utterly failed to make out a case against him

He states that he did not violate the law and that it is hard he should be fined on account of his physical disability to appear and make his just defense

In addition to this affidavit he will obtain the statements of his attending physician and his neighbors for the truth of the above statements

He states that he is in bad health and that he is a very poor man with three motherless children to

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maintain

G N Wood

Sworn to before me by G N Wood this 27th June 1864

att J M Shackelford C M C C

To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky We the undersigned would Join with the petitioner Wood for the reasons stated in his foregoing affidavit to in asking your executive clemency in in the premises and ask you to remit said fine

J M Shackelford
R. H. Johnson
R.. G.. Burton
James H. Embry
C J Walker
C F Burnam
J.. W. Caperton
Willard Davis
G E Billingsley
N. Jones
C C Ball
Joseph Jones

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I was the attending physician of the affidavitant of Wood and state that he was sick and confined to his room at the March Term of the Madison Cirucit Court 1864 and that he was wholly unable to attend as said term of the Court.

Jake White Jr M. D

Sworn to before me a J P of Madison County by Dr Jake White Jr June 27, 1864,

Daniel Tuder J. P.
By Geo E Simmons

We the undersigned neighbors of the said G. N. Wood state that he was sick and confined to his room and was unable to attend the Madison Circuit Court at its March Term 1864

Q U Samuel
Andrew. J. Munday
William Haden
Jas. Y. Peyton
A Hicks
Wm Dozier

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Madison Cir Ct
vs
G. N. Wood
Tipling
Remit
$60
12th July/64