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Petition

Mary Gill to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-10-19

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Date of Creation: October 19, 1865
Place of Creation: Taylor County, Kentucky
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: BR16-139 to BR16-140
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-2588
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FTP Identifier: 32205472

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Dates: 1865-03; 1865-10-19; 1865-10-19; 1865-03; 1865-11-02

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Mary Gill to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-10-19, 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-0001-004-2588 (November 15, 2026).

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State of Kentucky Taylor County
To His Excellency
Gov Bramlette

Your Petitioner Mary Gill states that she is a poor widow woman with four children living with her & dependant upon her for a support, that her only son grown & on whom she relied for a support, by Judgent of Taylor Circuit at its March Term 1865 was sent to the state Prison or Penitenchry for three years. That he was sent to Frankfort at once & is now serving his time,

Your Petitioner beleves in her very hart that he is innocent of the Crime of Burglary for which he is convicted, she prays your honor to Pardon & release her said son from the said Judgement & Imprisonment, and for which she will every pray &c

Mary Gill

Subsribed & sworn to before me by Mary Gill on this 19^th day of October 1865 J. R. Robinson J. P. T. C.

We the Jury who tried the case of James L. Gill above named now believe he deserves Executive clemency, & pray the Governor to Pardon & release James L. Gill from the Penitenchry

attest
J. R. Robinson
{Revenue Stamp}JR
Oct 19,
1865

Washington ^his X mark^ Roots
J M Yates
J N Marstis

S. S. Aspen
G. H. Dearen
John A. Russell
Jas. W. Caldwell
R H Spurling

[Page 2] We the citizens of Taylor County join Mary Gill in her Prayr for the Pardon & release of her Son James C Gill from the Penetenchry

J. B. M^cWhorter S. T. C
Jo^s H Chandler
W^m ,E, Parrott
J. N. Turner
P. L. Netherland
G W Redmon
Tho^s R Wright clk Cir Court
A. F. Gowdy
J. R. Robinson

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Taylor Cir Ct
vs
Jas L Gill
Mch term/65
3 years
Pardoned 2^d Nov /65