To his excellency Thomas E. Bramlett Gov. of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Your petitioner William Patrick respectfully shoeth unto your excellency that he is a married man living in perfect confidence with his wife. But unfortunately he got intoxicated on Christmust day 1864 and left Williamsburg in that condition in company with One [...] who persuaded your petitioner to accompany him by a house where one ^Anne Sheally^ Aney ^Sheally^ Childers and [...] lived at the time above spoken of Petitioner and [...] were perfectly friendly but since that [...] became unfriendly with your petitioner went before the grand jury of Whitley county and procured an indictment against your petitioner and the said Ann Childers ^Sheally^ who is a single woman for adultery.

Your petitioner states that for the sake of his domestick happiness ^& that of his wife particularly^ he does not wish this matter to be publickly investigated at Williamsburg and he hopes that his wife may never hear of it and if she should that he had been discharged he therefore in the most fearfully tender and delicate into considerations of the premises prays your excellency to grant a pardon to him & the said Ann Childers from the penalty of said offence accept the cost which in his case he will pay to the officers of the court and he will forever feel grateful and [...][...][...] so not in bad company in the future

William Patrick petitioner

Whitley Cir Ct
vs
W^m Patrick

Refused
65