Petition

E. Baker et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Caldwell 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
BR42-234 to BR42-235
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3372
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FTP Identifier
32206139

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Dates
1865-11
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Citation

E. Baker 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-0001-004-3372 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlett
Govenor."

Your petitioners would respectfully state to you, that on or about the [...] day of November 1865, one N B Ford was indicted by the grand jury of Caldwell County Kentucky, for shooting a negro man by the name of George Taylor, with intent to kill, the facts are believed to be this." That the said N B Ford caught the said negro with a hog of his." and asked the negro what he was going to do with his pig." and the negro said that it was his. I told him it was not his, but that it was Ford's hog. then the negro said it was ^Mr^ Chambers hog, and that Mr Chambers had told him it was his to catch it & carry it home, Ford then went to Chambers & asked him if he told the negro to catch the pig & Chambers ^said^ no he did not." & Ford went to correct the negro & the negro said a few cross words & broke to run, then it was Ford shot him." said negro has got entirely well and if ensist ^the^ negro has a bad character as a grand rascal &c

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and if consistent with your views & opinions would request you to release him said Ford of the Indictment &c."

E Baker
Asst Ass Int. Rev

A. G. Ratliff
S. T. Mitchesson
B. T. Gray
J. W. Withers
H E Mitchesson
P H Darby
R. L. Wilson
Jesse Cooksey
J W Hayden D C

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Caldwell Cir Ct
vs
N B Ford
Indicted for
Shooting with
intent to kill