Petition

C. B. Faris et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Laurel 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
BR41-302 to BR41-303
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3127
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32205948

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Dates
1863-08
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Citation

C. B. Faris 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-0001-004-3127 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency Tomas E. Bramlette
Governer of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizens of Laurel County Ky Petition to your Excelency to parden William J Carer who was tried at the Laurel Curcet Court & convicted August 1863 for the crime of horse stealing his turn of conviction is Four years he was convicted when but a boy and we believe was pursuaded in to it by A man that was exspecting to get the benifeit of the horse his Father was Dead being Just raist by it his Mother he had not a good chance of nowing what was rite & A being shaler witted was easy pursuaded in to things not rite the way he acted with the horse shod plain that he Did not no what he was Doing Rode the horse in the Day time in the same Neightborhood that he was taken he stops at severl houses & told that it was not his horse that he was taking him to annother man all this was Don unbenoence to his Mother & when she herd of it she shed tears over it being poor she need his assistance altho him being afflicted he is not abel to Do mutch altho he is not abel to Don mutch he is all her chance for her assistance & under these surcamstance we Pray your Excelency to Parden him

we the undersined believe these statementes to be true

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Assined

C B Faris
John E. Johnson
W. S. Doak
William N. Steel
Ths. J. Canifax P J G C
W. L. Brown
G. W. Miller
John Pitman clk
W A Miller Dep clk
John T Vaughn
Levi H Vaughn
R D Johnson

I William B Johnson being the man that William Jefferson Carrier Stole the Horse from and the one that prosecuted him and had him sent to the State prison for said charge I am now ^willing^ that he be released hoping he will live honest and do better in the future

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Laurel Cir Ct
vs
Wm J. Carnes

Refused