Urban Kennedy, Affidavit
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- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
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Urban Kennedy, 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-0001-004-2533 (November 14, 2026).
Urban Kennedy states that David Chestnut joind rebel army & committed depredations upon property of citzens of Ky, on his return took oath amnesty is behaving very well in mean time he was indicted and his father Saml Chestnut became the youngs bail & sponser for judt of 200 the young man confessing & his father repleved, The old man is a good man an excellent citzen member society; his condition is rather reduced and he has suffered much distress of mind, in fact he is an object of sympathy,
This judt was rendered at the
He states that in his judt it is a case deserving executive clemency as to both, in as much as the young man is conducting himself in a worthy manner.
Urban Kennedy
Todd Cir Ct
vs
David Chestnut
$200 —
Trespass
Remitted
His Excly
Gov Bramlette
Remit for Trespass to property.