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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0024 BR8-36 to BR8-36A

Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. Nancy Allen (Louisville FWC) N00004815 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, resident. Married. Free woman of color in Louisville in 1863.

Relationships Social: Samuel Ayers Atchison, Jr. (Louisville, KY, attorney/Democrat (JR).) Social: Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Wesley Flood (Louisville farmer) Social: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) Social: Edwin S. Craig (Louisville, KY, Commonwealth’s attorney 7th district & attorney) Social: C. K. Fairfax (Louisville & Richmond attorney) Legal: George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge)

KYR-0001-004-0024. Samuel Ayers Atchison, Jr. (Louisville, KY, attorney/Democrat (JR).) N00001123 1833? 1880? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Spoke in support of the Democratic Party in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1859. Attorney in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Political: Louisville, Kentucky Social: George W. Hull (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and notary) Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 155. The Daily Courier (Louisville , KY), March 02, 1857, p. 1. "Democratic Meeting at Osborn's Grocery," The Daily Courier (Louisville , KY), March 31, 1859, p. 1. Find A Grave, "Samuel Ayers Atchison Jr. (1840-1880)," Memorial #100673466, accessed December 2, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100673466. John H. Talbott (Notary in Jefferson County) N002009 1816? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, hotel owner and notary. Kentucky native. Married Ann Rice Johnson Talbott. Father of James F Talbott, Arabella Talbott, Mary L. Talbott, William F. Talbott, Ann R. Talbott, and John H. Talbott. Nelson County, Kentucky, resident in 1850. Proprietor of the Commercial Hotel in Louisville in 1860. Notary Public for Jefferson County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, Nelson. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 23. Kentucky, County Marriages, 1783-1965, Ancestry, Nelson County, 1838. C. K. Fairfax (Louisville & Richmond attorney) N00002923 1838? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Jefferson County, Kentucky, native. Son of John S. Fairfax and Ann Fairfax. Attorney in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, District 1, p. 214A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, Richmond, p. 12. Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) N00004817 1825? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Robert A. Gailbreath and Mary "Polly" Gailbreath. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1862. Notary public in Louisville in 1862.

Relationships Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 202A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 242. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 260B. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bullitt County Marriages, Film 000482690, p. 23. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862. "Jefferson County Court," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 4 March 1862, p. 3. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner's Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, (Louisville, KY: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency), 95. Henry C. Russell (Louisville, Kentucky, deputy marshal for Louisville east district) N002033 1813? 1889 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, deputy marshal. Kentucky native. Married to Harriet Pilcher Russell in Oldham County, Kentucky, on September 21, 1833. Father of Catherine "Kate" Russell, Eliza Russell, Telitha Augustus Russell Smith, Mary C. Russell Buchanan, Corrilla Russell, Columbus Russell, Lucretia Russell Johnson, Alice Russell, and Fanny Russell. Innkeeper in Oldham County, in 1850. Employed Rich C. Calloway in Oldham County in 1850. Deputy city marshal in Louisville in 1860. Deputy marshal for the east district of the Louisville City Court in Louisville in 1861.

Relationships Social: John Hopkins Harney (Lou. Democrat publisher) Social: Joshua Fry Bullitt (Louisville. Ct. of Appeals Judge) Social: Charles Freedley (Louisville) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, Division 1, p. 147B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 264. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 494A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482444, p. 167. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819620, p. 253. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 007723044, p. 51. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 25969. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner, (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 324. “Society,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 24, 1889, p. 6. KYR-0001-004-0134. Wesley Flood (Louisville farmer) N00004816 1807? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Farmer in Louisville in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 247. Edwin S. Craig (Louisville, KY, Commonwealth’s attorney 7th district & attorney) N00000948 1821-08-23 1882-05-25 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Married to Eliza P. Mason Craig in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on December 10, 1857. Father of Mason Craig. Judge of the Louisville City Court in Louisville in 1850. Commonwealth’s attorney for the 7th Judicial District until 1861. Practiced law in the firm of Craig & Elliott in partnership with Robert J. Elliott in Louisville in 1861.

Relationships Legal: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Social: Joseph Bryson Kinkead (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and US Navy midshipman) Social: Richard Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, cook/criminal) Social: Jane Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, seamstress) Legal: Seventh Judicial District of Kentucky Legal: Robert Ellis (Louisville, Kentucky, steward) Legal: Charles Newell Warren (Jefferson County, Kentucky, civil engineer and banker) Legal: William Shriver (Jefferson County, Kentucky, student, laborer, corporal, quartermaster sergeant, adjutant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant (U.S.A.)) Legal: Hamden Zane (Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Isaac D. Stone (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney.) Political: Oscar F. Sturman (Jefferson County, Kentucky, lawyer.) Political: Martin Witmer Barr (Jefferson County, Kentucky, telegraph operator and newspaper editor) Political: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Political: Junius Lynch Clemmons (Jefferson County, Kentucky, lawyer. ) Legal: William K. Thomas (Jefferson County, Kentucky, jailer) Legal: Casper August Kromer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident, tavern owner, and Freemason) Legal: George Ridgeway (Jefferson County, Kentucky, soldier and petty criminal.) Legal: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Legal: Jefferson Rogers (Alleged murderer and criminal in Jefferson County, Kentucky) Political: John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 3, p. 282B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 596A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Film #994040, Jefferson County Marriages. “Death of Judge E.S. Craig,” Courier-Journal, (Louisville, Ky.), May 27, 1882, p. 4. _Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 64. "Edwin S. Craig (1821-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial 198259257, accessed June 22, 2020, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/198259257. William Gatton Reasor (Louisville, KY, attorney, city council, and notary public) N002029 1830? 1870-10-26 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Matilda Goss Reasor in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Father of William T. Reasor and Catharine L. Reasor. Member of the City Council of Louisville from the 2nd Ward in 1859. Attorney in Louisville from 1860 to 1861. Notary public in Jefferson County in 1861. City attorney of Louisville from 1861 to 1866.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 579. Annual Communication of the Mayor, and Reports of Departments, of the City of Louisville, (Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, 1867), p. 1. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 291. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819615. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 308. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 307. KYR-0001-017-0062. George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY, attorney, politician, and judge) N00001155 1807? 1877? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and judge. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lucy A. Guy Johnston in Shelby County, Kentucky, on November 28, 1828. Father of George G. Johnston. Married to Rosa A. Johnston. Father of John C. Johnston, Louisa Johnston, Eliza Johnston, Henry S. Johnston, Florence Johnston, George W. Johnston and Rosey Johnston. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1829 and 1832. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1838 to 1842. Delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Shelby County. Attorney in Shelby County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County in 1850. Judge of the Louisville City Court from 1854 to 1865. Elected circuit judge of the 7th Judicial District of Kentucky in Jefferson County in August 1865.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Seventh Judicial District of Kentucky Political: James C. Gill (stub, Louisville) Legal: Frederick Wobbe (Louisville Deputy County Clerk) Legal: William L. Gray, Jr (Louisville) Legal: Horatio Fleming Simrall (Jefferson County, KY, attorney and law professor, offered VP of prov govt) Legal: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Legal: John Joyce (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and prov govt rep) Legal: James G. Gorsuch (Jefferson County, Kentucky, printer and soldier) Legal: Louis B. Bates (Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: Abraham P. Gorsuch (Jefferson County, Kentucky, steamboat engineer and printer) Legal: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Legal: John McClure () Legal: William Banks (Louisville, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Squire Caple (Jefferson County, Kentucky, cooper and soldier.) Legal: Joseph F. Woods (Jefferson County, Kentucky. Kentucky native.) Legal: Benjamin Woods (Jefferson County, Kentucky.) Political: John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken & Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate)) Political: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Political: Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician & surgeon, Prov govt ) Political: Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY & Confederate)) Political: Provisional Council Social: George Wolf (Louisville, Kentucky, jeweler) Social: Carter Woodford Tiller (Louisville, Kentucky, policeman and deputy city marshal) Social: W. Heffernan (Unknown (Jefferson County)) Social: J. A. Thomas (Louisville petition signer for Bridget Kearney) Social: Joseph C. Ellis (Louisville, Jefferson County, clerk) Social: Eugene Dougherty (Louisville, Jefferson County, shoemaker ) Social: James Treasy (Louisville, Kentucky, saddler) Social: John Koch (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: A. Loeser (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky. ) Social: George Johnson (Unknown (Jefferson County, composite bio)) Social: James O'Neal (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: John J. McDevitt (Louisville, Jefferson County, minister) Social: James McDermott (Louisville, Kentucky, grocer) Social: James Ryder (Signed a petition on behalf of Bridget Kearney in Louisville, Kentucky.) Social: James C. Gill (Jefferson County, Kentucky, coroner) Social: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Social: Michael Dawson (Jefferson County, tavern keeper) Social: George A. Blenner (Louisville, Jefferson County, resident) Social: Augustus G. Schmidt (Louisville, Kentucky, druggist) Social: Samuel Birch (Louisville, Jefferson Co., provision dealer) Political: Hervey Seaton (Louisville, Jefferson County, day policeman - 6th Ward) Political: Martin Corcoran (Louisville, Jefferson County, tinner) Political: Thomas Slevin (Louisville, Kentucky, dry goods merchant. ) Political: William R. Hydes (Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and city marshal) Political: William McGuire (Louisville, Kentucky, police officer) Political: Thomas P. Cain (Louisville, Jefferson County, dry goods merchant) Social: Richard Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, cook/criminal) Social: Jane Cunningham (Jefferson County, KY, seamstress) Social: Conrad Shroeder (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Political: Louisville Police Court Social: Clarinda Tackett Rasure (Julia Dean) (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, sex worker and madam.) Social: Sally White (Jefferson County, Kentucky, washer woman.) Social: William E. Curry (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, policeman.) Social: Jesse Franklin Hammon (Jefferson County, Kentucky, ship carpenter and policeman) Social: Hezekiah Alexander Jr. (Meade County, Kentucky, resident. ) Political: James H. Montgomery (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, tailor. )

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 369B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p 221. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 11, pp. 495B-96A. History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties, vol. 1 (Cleveland: L. A. Williams & Co., 1882), 511-12. John M. Palmer, Personal Reflections of John M. Palmer: The Story of an Earnest Life (Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1901), 243. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Shelby County Marriages, Film 000259285. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 709. "George W Johnston (unknown-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 150314903, accessed March 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150314903. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Louisville City Court O001838 1850 Categories: Organizations

Police court with jurisdiction in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Judge(s): George W. Johnston. City Attorney(s): William G. Reasor, Robert J. Elliott. Clerk(s): Oliver H. Strattan (1861), J. Phillip Tomppert, Jr.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Edwards’ Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6, ed. Edwards, Greenough, & Deved (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 155. J. D. Campbell’s Louisville Business Directory for 1864, ed. J. D. Campbell (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Publisher, Bookseller, Printer and Bookbinder, 1864), 70. Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 323-24. 1863-09-15 Petition English Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency Thomas.E Bramlet Govnor of Kentucky--

Your Petitioner Nancy Allen you would respectfully state, that she was indicted for Keeping a disorderly House in the city of Louisville, and upon her trial ^in the city court of Louisville^ she was find ^on Tuesday the 8th Inst^ Forty Dollars, She states that upon the trial She could not procure her witness and the trial was had and concluded She being unable to get her witness before the court, She states that if She could have gotten her witness to the court She could have establised the fact that She was a Quiet good neighbor that she always attended to own business and that her House was always Quiet and orderly. She further states that She is poor and unable to pay the fine without great distress to herself and family-. She states that She is ^a^ free woman of colour having ^a^ Husband endeavoring to make an honest living by work. She therefore respectfully asks of your Excellency to remit the fine imposed upon her by the said Court, and She will ever pray. Septr 15th 1863

The undersigned respectively join in the above petition.

Nancy Allen S. A. Atchison Jno, H. Talbott C K Fairfax J P Gailbreath

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H. C. Russell, D. M.

I as agent collected the rent of the House Nancy Allen lived in & never Saw nor heard of any Disorderly conduct about the house.

Wesley Flood

I most respectfully join in the above prayer of this coloured woman, being familiar with the facts I do not believe that the persecution was urged for the public-good, but merely to gratify private feeling

H C Russell Dm E. S. Craig

Much personal ill feeling certainly Existed against the petitioner Nancy Allan which was clearly manifested by the witesses for the Comlth, Judging from facts. which have been made Known to me since the trial, are upon which I can rely:- I respectfully, suggest that Executive clemency will have been, justly bestowed if the fine were be remitted

W. G Reasor City atto

From the facts stated above by Mr Reasor from his personal Knowledge I think the Executive clemency would be properly bestowed by remitting the fine

Geo. W. Johnston

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Jefferson County Remission Refused 21st Sept/63 Tho E Bramlette Ansd21st Sept/63