T. W. Hammond 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
- BR14-33
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1909
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204796
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- Dates
- 1865-05-31
Citation
T. W. Hammond 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-0001-004-1909 (November 14, 2026).
To his Excellency the
Govenor of Kentucky
Sir.
We the undersigned would most earnestly beg your Excellency's to pardon Mrs Lucinda Bennett. now confined in the Penetentiary, under a sentence, for the crime of advising negroes to escape from their owners.
Her conduct during her imprisonment, has been so good. that the Officers of the Prison. most cheerfully unite with us. in praying, that your Excellency may extend pardon, towards one, (& that one, a woman) who having once done wrong to the laws of the Land. but now humbly sues for pardon.
Signed.
T. W. Hammond. Senator.
Joshua F Bell
F. L. Cleveland
R H Field
Lucinda Bennett has been a well behaved woman Since she has been in Prison
H I Todd
Jefferson Cir Ct
vs
Lucinda Bennett
Pardoned