Elijah Gabhart and James Taylor, Affidavit
- Place of Creation
- Mercer 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
- BR12-109 to BR12-110
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1356
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204243
- Places
- Mercer County, Kentucky
Citation
Elijah Gabhart and James Taylor, Affidavit, 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-0001-004-1356 (November 12, 2026).
Mercer circuit Court
Commonwealth of Ky
against
John Patterson
The undersigned citizens of Mercer County state that they were present at the time of the shooting alledged in the Indictment against said John Patterson, for charging him with shooting A. G. Kyle, and we saw the shooting and State that said Patterson did not shoot said Kyle —