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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-0001-004-0042 BR8-63 to BR8-64

Ghent, Carroll County, Kentucky Ghent, Carroll County, Kentucky 1863-09-07 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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 Thos E Bramlett Govenor of the State of Kentucky

We your petitioners citizens of Carroll County beg leave to represent to your Excellency that at the late August term of the carroll circuit court our neighbor G W Birkshire was fined by the Honorable Judge Drainane the Sum of fifty dollars on an Indictment for Shooting with a pistol at G S Blessing We would further State that Said Birkshire is a man of but little means and cannot without great inconveniance pay said fine and further that the Shooting was done while in a state of great excitement and that at the time the said Blessing gave the lie direct to Birkshire in regard to his statement that he was robed a few nights before by a company of Southern soldiers who entered his house and robed him of 250 dollars

Said Blessing was not hit or wounded by the Shooting but the Judge could not comply with the law without inflicting the above fine of fifty dollars

We your petitioners in view of the whole premises believe this to be a propper case for the exercise of Executive Clemency and respectfully ask your Excellency to remit the fine or somuch thereoff as you may deem propper

Ghent Carroll County Ky Sept 7th 1863

Saml Howard Lewis. S. Owen D. G. Owen W McClure N, D, Blythe. P. M. Ghent Ky. L. C. Gex John. H. Ellis Thomas Hopkins Berryman Ellis Joseph Brooks James Han L Bailey Marshall . G. Wm Swango Michal Maroney

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H C Howard C, C, C C L Keene Wm Howard John Bailey Peter Wycoff H J Wing Jos, F, Blythe 32d Reg K, V, I Virgil, S, Bledsoe James R Cockrell Henry M Griffith

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Carroll Cir Ct

Remit except fees & costs

Tho E Bramlette Govr vs G. W. Birkshire Shooting $50 16th Nov/63