Micajh Wilson to Thomas E. Bramlette
- Place of Creation
- Marion 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
- BR42-368 to BR42-369
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-3454
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- FTP Identifier
- 32206216
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Citation
Micajh Wilson 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-0001-004-3454 (November 15, 2026).
To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette
Govnor of Kentucky:
The undersigned, your petitioner, would respectfully state, that he is a resident of Marion County Ky. and is the father of Coleman Wilson who stands indicted in the Marion Circuit Court of two offences, viz: At the [...] take and carry away one horse least of the value of one hundred Dollars the property of J. C. Raney against the peace and dignity of the Commonwlth of Ky. & further accuse him of feloniously receiving stolen property on the
Your petition would respectfully represent that he firmly believes that his
over
son Coleman Wilson is not guilty of Either of the crimes charged upon him & That Robt Land was tried under the first indictment, at which trial the jury failed to agree, and for which alleged crime your Excellency pardoned the said Land. He would further state that his son had attended court for the purpose of standing his trial under each of these Indictments, until he compelled his son to leave the country in order to save the life of his son and the property of the petitioner which he verily believed to be in danger from an organization known as "Judge Lynch," That his son consented to leave only at the urgent solicitations of the petitioner and his wife, & that your petitioner verily believes that his son's life would be in danger were he to retrun to Marion County for the purpose of attending his trial now Wherefore your petitioner respectfully prays Executive Clemency in behalf of his son in the two indictments mentioned.
Micajh Wilson
The undersigned citizens of Marion County join in the petition above in asking Executive Clemency in behalf of Micaah Wilson whom was
known to be [...] reliable and credible.
W. L. Kink
J. C. Hasewell
J. R. Thomas
R. Prewitt
T. J. Prewitt
B A [...]
John H. Tucker
Marion
Wilson
Rejected