Correspondence

Laban T. Moore to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-11-10

Date of Creation
November 10, 1864
Place of Creation
Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
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
BR12-91 to BR12-92
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1342
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32204229
People
Endicott, Gabriel
Todd, Harry Innes, Sr.
Moore, Laban Thomas
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
Places
Catlettsburg, Kentucky
Lawrence County, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Kentucky State Penitentiary
Dates
1864-11-10
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Citation

Laban T. Moore to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-11-10, 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-0001-004-1342 (November 12, 2026).

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Cattlettsburg Ky
Nov 10th 1864
Thomas E Bramlett Esqr
Govener of Kentucky
Dear Sir

You will please pardon me for again invoking your clemency in behalf of another one of our fellow citizens but the frequent importunity of some of the most respectable citizens of Lawrence county and my own sense of justice impells me to ask in ernest expression the pardon of Gabriel Endicott who is now a prisoner in the Penitentiary of this State upon — sentence of Man Slaughter — the petition which will accompany this letter is signed by the very best citizens of the county in which Endicott was

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convicted, and by some who wer most ernest in his prosecution I myself was employed to prosecute him, His good conduct since he has been in the penitentiary has elicited the favourable consideration of the Keeper our [...]Common friend Harry Todd and I am sure no one will be more gratified at his pardon than he, Trusting you may find it consistent with your sense of duty to pardon Endicott

I am as ever your friend
and obt servt
Laban T Moore