James H. Trimble, Affidavit
1865-03-06
- Date of Creation
- March 6, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Montgomery 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
- BR13-1
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1572
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204459
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- Dates
- 1865-03-06
Citation
James H. Trimble, Affidavit, 1865-03-06, 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-0001-004-1572 (November 12, 2026).
Montgomery County
State of Kentucky, Sct.
James H. Trimble being sworn says he is Deputy Sheriff for the County above named. That he has known Wm S. Wills for twenty odd years. That he is a very clever man &. citizen, and that it would be a hard case were he compelled to pay the $500, on the Bond of Geo. Hedger. That he is a poor man. That Robt Hedger is insolvent. That said Wills lived in the upper part of this County: but was robbed by the Guerillas, and by fear was compelled to leave the Co. and move to Bath. That this affiant is informed that said wills has been robbed some two or three times since his removal to said County of Bath & State of Kentucky
That it is certainly a case calling for Executive clemency.
James H. Trimble
Sworn to before me by J H Trimble this
J. M. Crawford
C. M. C. C.
Mount
Commth of Ky.
vs } Afft
Wm S Wills &
Robt Hedger
Holt