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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-0001-004-0145 BR8-228 to BR8-229

Bedford, Trimble County, Kentucky Thomas McIntosh (Trimble County Farmer) N00001510 1793? 1873-12-21 Categories: People

Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Jane Wilson McIntosh in Oldham County, Kentucky, on January 19, 1837. Father of Edward McIntosh and Nancy McIntosh. Farmer in Trimble County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Trimble Circuit Court Legal: James M. Roberts (Trimble County, Kentucky)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, p. 214. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trimble County Marriages, Film #000482442, p. 390-91. Find A Grave, "Thomas McIntosh (1793-December 21, 1873)," Memorial #68203421, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68203421 (accessed August 2, 2018). George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) N00002278 1827-11-17 1898-01-01 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of Edward C. Drane and Judith Dupuy Drane. Married to Mary Shipman Drane in 1861. Father of Paul S. Drane. Graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1849. Partner with William S. Pryor in the law firm Pryor & Drane in Henry County in 1849. Resident of Henry County in 1850. Attorney in Henry County in 1860. Circuit judge of the Eighth Kentucky Judicial District from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Economic: Henry Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Inspector General of Kentucky Military: A. B. Vallandingham (Authorized to raise companies of Kentucky State Guard in Louisville, Kentucky in 1864) Social: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: [Unknown] McDermot (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Mother of Patrick McDermot.) Political: Patrick McDermot (Arrested for the attempted murder of Patrick Ford in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1861.) Social: [Unknown] McDermot (Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident. Mother of Patrick McDermot.) Legal: John Anderson (Charged with grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court.) Legal: William Johnson (Convicted of grand larceny in Franklin Circuit Court in 1863.) Legal: Albert Bridgeford (Frankfort, Kentucky, laborer and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: Gallatin Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, District 1, p. 395B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 247. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 148B. 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), 301-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. 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. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Henry County, KY, August, 1863, p. 221. "Judge Drane Dead," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 2, 1898, p. 5. "Henry County law and government," Henry County Local (New Castle, KY), December 9, 1998, p. 6. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 30-1. John L. Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney.) N00002277 1829-04-07 1903-12-01 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, Commonwealth's attorney. Ohio native. Married to Theresa Frank Scott in Mason County, Kentucky, on September 3, 1857. Married to Sallie F. Chiles Scott in Mason County on November 30, 1859. Father of Nettie Scott. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Attorney in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860. Partner with James Simpson in Simpson & Scott law firm in Frankfort in 1861. Commonwealth's attorney for the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1868.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Carroll Circuit Court Legal: Nathan H. Jeffers (Grant County, Kentucky, circuit court clerk) Legal: Charles O'Hara (blacksmith, Grant County) Legal: Heman D. Stratton (school teacher, Grant County) Legal: William Tucker (Grant County resident) Legal: G. Washington Osborn (Grant County resident) Legal: Robert F. Coleman (Burlington, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: John Sanders (Posey, Indiana, farmer) Legal: Boone County Court Legal: Boone Circuit Court Legal: William "Stukey" Ransdall (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Edward Hayden (Henry County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Henry Circuit Court Legal: Jesse Redman (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: John W. Brookover (Huntington, Brown County, Ohio, farmer and soldier.) Legal: John W. Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Legal: John C. L. Neal (Owen County, Kentucky, carpenter) Legal: Grant Circuit Court Social: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Social: Winthrop Hartly Hopson (Fayette County, Kentucky, minister. ) Social: [Unknown] Frazier (Mentioned as a judge in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1862.) Social: Emery Whitaker (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: John Calvin Mason (Bath County, Kentucky, attorney, congressman, and soldier.) Social: Robert Milligan (Mercer County, Kentucky, professor and university president. President of Kentucky University) Social: Alvin Duvall (Scott County, Kentucky, court of appeals judge) Social: W. T. Moore (Franklin County, Kentucky, minister.) Social: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Kauffman Kramer (Jefferson County, Kentucky, peddler) Political: Willard Preble Hall (Seventeenth Governor of the State of Missouri, attorney, soldier, and politician.) Legal: George Canning Drane (Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit judge) Familial: Nettie Scott (Frankfort, Kentucky, resident.) Legal: David G. Venable (Frankfort, Kentucky, student and soldier) Legal: Robert Alexander Burke (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, murder suspect, and fugitive from justice.) Legal: William Sams (Carroll County, Kentucky, sawmill operator, barkeeper, and agent of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.) Political: Oliver P. Morton (Fourteenth governor of Indiana, attorney, judge, and politician.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 363. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 154A. 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, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. 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. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1867), 324. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts for the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1868, Legislative Document Series, No. 2 (Frankfort, KY: S. I. M. Major, Public Printer, 1869), 23. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994048, Mason County Marriages. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281844. "John L. Scott," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), November 13, 1860, p. 2. "New Law Firm at Frankfort--Simpson & Scott," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), January 8, 1861, p. 3. "Touching Bereavement," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), December 8, 1866, p. 3. "Attorney John L. Scott Dead," The Morning Herald (Lexington, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 4. "Deaths: John L. Scott," Daily Public Ledger (Maysville, KY), December 3, 1903, p. 1. L. F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky (Frankfort, KY: Roberts Printing Co., 1912), 149. "Col John Lafayette Scott (1829-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial 15017815, accessed September 5, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15017815. Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep) N00000227 1826-04-08 Categories: People

Oldham County, Kentucky, teacher, attorney, and politician. Jefferson County, Kentucky, native. Attended St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Kentucky, from 1845 to 1848. Teacher in Oldham County from 1848 to 1850. Read law with George Armstrong in Oldham County. Attorney in LaGrange, Kentucky, in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1857 to 1859. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1859 to 1863. Attorney in Oldham County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Oldham County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Oldham County from 1863 to 1865. Owned the Jefferson and Hardin Coal and Rock Oil Company in partnership with John Roberts, James S. Pirtle, William T. Applegate, John L. Hem, Charles G. Wintersmith, S. B. Thomas, Charlton D. Shean in 1865.

Relationships Social: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Social: James Crockett Sayers (Kenton County, Kentucky, laborer, farmer, politician, QM & 1st lieut 32nd KY Inf USA) Social: Thomas Turner (Montgomery Co., KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Thomas W. Owings (Meade co state rep) Social: Richard Aylett Buckner, Jr. (Lexington, KY atty, judge & speaker of State House) Social: Bryan Rust Young (Bardstown state rep) Social: John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator) Social: John A. Prall (Bourbon Co State Senator) Social: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Social: Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney, editor and secretary of state) Social: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Social: Thomas A. Duke (Paducah State Senator & Physician) Social: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper) Social: Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep) Social: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Henry Davis McHenry (Ohio Co., KY, state rep & senator) Social: Martin Pickett Marshall (Mason Co. State Senator) Social: Curtis Field Burnam (Madison County. KY, attorney & State Rep) Social: Willis W. Gardner (Union co. State Sen.) Social: Joshua Barnes (Bath Co., KY, State Rep. & doctor) Social: James Calvert (Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician) Social: Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney) Social: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Social: William T. Samuels (Hardin Co, KY, clerk, commissioner, KY State Auditor, state rep, clerk of KY Hse of Rep) Social: Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA) Social: John L. Irvan (Calloway Co. state rep) Social: John R. Thomas (Marion Co., Ky, State rep & attorney) Social: Zebulon Ward (Woodford co State Rep & former penitentiary lessee) Social: John S. Van Winkle (Wayne Co state rep) Social: Elijah Gabbert (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and KY state rep) Social: Jonas Martin (Livingston and Lyon County, Kentucky, farmer and politician.) Social: William S. Rankin (Grant County, KY, State Rep) Social: Joshua Fry Bell (Boyle Co., KY, attorney & politician) Social: Isaac Price Miller (Jefferson co. farmer & politician) Social: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Social: John B. Bruner (Breckinridge Co., KY, atty & state senator)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 842. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 166A. Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Adjourned Session (January, 1865) (Frankfort: George. D. Prentice, 1865), 143. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 668. Oldham County Historical Society, Oldham County, Kentucky, History & Families: The First Century, 1824-1924 (Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing Company, 1996), 272. Harvey M. Buckley (Henry County, KY, attorney and Col. 5th & 54th KY Inf USA) N00003013 1824? 1898-03-16 Categories: People

Henry County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Nicholasville, Kentucky, native. Attorney in Henry County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from October 5, 1861, to January 26, 1863. Served in the 54th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 30, 1864, to September 1, 1865.

Relationships Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 245. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue -- Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 149. William Francis Peak (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer and clerk) N00003345 1829-12-01 1911-01-29 Categories: People

Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer and clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret A. Peak. Father of George Peak, Charlotte Peak, Robert F. Peak, Hallie Peak, and Lizzie S. Peak. Farmer in Trimble County, Kentucky in 1863. Clerk of the Trimble Circuit Court from 1863 to 1866. Clerk of the Trimble County Court from 1864 to 1866.

Relationships Social: William P. Adcock (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

Find A Grave, "William Francis Peak (1829-1911)," Memorial #22471041, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22471041 (accessed March 31, 2017). "Veteran Banker William F Peak is Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 30, 1911, p. 5. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, Bedford, p. 5. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Trimble County, KY, June/July 1863, p. 190, (Accessed via ancestry.com). “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Silas Gatewood (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer) N00000998 1809? 1880 Categories: People

Trimble County, Kentucky, school teacher and county clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Frances A. Bell Gatewood in Trimble County on July 19, 1835. Father of Martha B. Gatewood. Mary E. Gatewood, Pulaski B. Gatewood, Silas Gatewood, Jr., and Fanny Omega Gatewood. Appointed Postmaster in Bedford, Trimble County, Kentucky in 1834. School teacher in Trimble County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Trimble County in 1860. Clerk of the Trimble County Court in Trimble County in 1862.

Relationships Social: William P. Adcock (Trimble County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, Bedford, p. 257. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, p. 396B. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, (accessed via Ancestry.com). Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Trimble County Marriages, Film #000482445, p. 226. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Federal Mortality Census Schedules, 1850-1880, and Related Indexes, 1850-1880, Collection T655, Archive Roll Number 20, 1880, Milton, Trimble, Kentucky. 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. Bedford, Kentucky P00001508 Categories: Places

Seat of Trimble County, Kentucky.

38.5926, -85.3177 “Bedford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 7, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 17. Trimble County, Kentucky P00001509 Categories: Places

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

38.5926, -85.3177 “Bedford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 7, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 298. Bedford, Trimble County, Kentucky 1863-10-19 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Bedford Trimble co Ky Oct 19th 1863 -- Dear Sir

I take the liberty to enclose to you for my friends two Petitions, The one of Thos McIntosh is for an old man 70 years of age do pardon him!!!

The other is a poor young man as represented,

I was one of your supporters throughout the election, have stood up to the Union, in Rebellious Trimble and never have nor never will swerve from that good cause, I beg leave to refer you to judge Drane J. L. Scott prosecuting attorney and Saml E. De haven representative from Oldham, & Col Buckley,

The fine in both cases are small, and the bearer Mr W. F. Peek is well acquainted with them and is or will be our clerk any representations he makes I will vouch for

You Very Respectfully S. Gatewood

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Trimble County

Respite each case 6 months

Tho E Bramlette

His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette Govenor of Ky

P M W F Peak

Petitions for Remissions see Scott atty for Comlth