To His Honor, Thos E. Bramlett
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioners, the undersigned, citizens of the County of Johnson and State of Kentucky Respectfully pray.

That Your Honor will pardon our follow citizen JohnCastle of the accused offence of Grand Larceny of which he stands charged in our county since our June term 1865,

We respectfully desire to give some of the reasons why we believe Executive clemency should be extended to him

1^st That he is not naturally endowed with an intelect of medium development

2d. That he is a peacable, harmless, industrous quiet citizen,

3d, That he has a wife and two small children dependent upon his labor for support, he being a poor man,

4^th That the offence is charged to have been committed during the late war when civil law was not being enforced and of no effect in the country,

5^th That ill feelings have for

some time existed between the accusers and the family and some of the connections of the accused

6^th That we do not believe the accused ever carried a way the Blacksmiths vice or is guilty

Wherefore we pray that he be pardoned of the accusation and so we will ever pray

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