Petition

John W. Belcher to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Wolfe 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
BR42-424 to BR42-425
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3490
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206242

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Dates
--11
1861
1865
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Citation

John W. Belcher 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-0001-004-3490 (November 15, 2026).

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His excellency Thomas E. Bramlette
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitionist John.W. Belcher would Respectfully represent to your Exellency that at the last November term of the Wolfe Circuit Court he was fined $21.00 for living in Adultry He admits that ^he^ is Guilty of the offence Charged but would further represent to your Excellency that his wife had Left him and took to herself Another man and was liveing in Perry County Kentucky which during the war of 1861 & 5 was overrun with guerilas and out Laws that he had Brought Suit for a Divorce before he taken the Second wife and the Courts of Said County was Supprest by the out Laws afore mentioned that he would not have committed Said offence if the Laws had been open there fore he asks that So much of said fine as is Going to the Comonwealth be remited that he be for Ever and henceforth released from the Payment of Said fine and will Ever Pray that the Same be Don

John.W. Belcher

We the underSigned citizens of Wolfe County would respectfully represent that John W Belcher your Petitionest is a fit Subject for Executive Clemency and Join in Prare with him and ask that he be forever and henceforth Pardoned and released from the Payment of Said fine and Ever Pray that the Same be Done

names
Jno. G. Profitt J. P. W. C.

Persons names

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William Stamper
Philip Williams
John G Spencer
Martin [...]
andrew Williams
Socrates Kincaid
W C Miller
Edward kincaid
G W Spencer
David Spencer
William Bush
Ira. Huff
John profett
W. M. Shoemaker
perrey Lewis
James P Legg C W C
Samuel A Shepherd
D J Shoemaker
John C Spencer
Lycurgus Kincaid
James Spencer Esquire
T. D. Treadway
[...] Miller
Zachariah N Wells
Jermiah Spencer
James Raboufe
James Spencer
S S Profitt
Andrew J. Spencer
Lois Gilly

William Mills
Zachariah Moore
John D Jimeson
M. E. Shackelford
Thomas Hamilton
J C. Shoemaker
Jacob Wireman
Jeremiah Profitt
Col Moore
James Spencer
Moses Spencer
Philip H Shoemaker
Willaim M. Profitt

[Page 3]

Wolfe C. C.
vs
Jo W. Belcher

[Page 4]

Campton Wolfe County Ky

To his Excelency Thomas E Bramblett
Governor of Ky

I hope you will remit the fine as set fourth in the enclosed petition and if so I will send you your fee imediatly Send it to the care of William F Hanks Jeffersonville Montgomery County Ky

C. M. Hanks