<title type="main">John W. Marques to Thomas E. Bramlette

To His Excellency Thos. E Bramlett Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The undersigned your petitioner John W. Marques of Grant County most respectfully states and represents that he became the bail of one John Neal upon his recognizance to answer to a charge of Felony in the Grant Circuit Court -- that soon after your petitioner became the bail of the said John Neal as aforesaid the said John Neal was notified and required by a large ^number of^ determined and dangerous men to leave and forever abandon Grant County and not return to it under the penalty of death. That had the said Neal remained in or returned to Grant County to answer to said charge it would have been at the peril of his life as almost the entire community in which he lived embracing portions of the Counties of Grat, Harrison. Scott & Owen were greatly enraged and inflamed at and openly threatened his life upon his failing to leave or his return to Grant County. Neal abandoned the County, has never returned, did not appear

to answer said charge and at the October Term 1862 of the Grant Circuit Court an order was made on motion of the Commonwealths attorney forfeiting said recognizance and at the May Term 1863, Judgment rendered thereon against your petitioner and said John Neal for Eight Hundred Dollars the amount of said bail bond and Execution is now in the hands of the Sheriff of Grant for collection returnable on the Fourth Monday of December next. Neal is worthless and has abandoned the state but would return but for the threats aforesaid. Your petitioner further states that although the judgment recites that a summons had been served upon the "Defendants" that it was not served upon Neal but was returned by the sheriff of Grant not served as to Neal he files as part hereof copies of said order of forefeiture. Judgment. summons and return, Your petitioner is a poor man of Sixty Seven years of age whose estate consists of a poor hill farm in Grant County of Two Hundred acres, To compell him to pay said

Judgment would break him up and leave him in poverty to support himself and a large family of daug children and grand children one of them deaf and dumb and including thewife^& seven children^ of a son and seven children who is a soldier in the Federal service in the Eighteenth Kentucky Regiment, Wherefore he most respectfully requests your Excelency to remit so much of the Judgment as is in ^within^ your constitutional power to do.

Grant County Nov 25"1863 John ^his X mark^ W Marques attest W S Rankin

The undersigned citizens and acquaintances of the above petitioner John W. Marques fully corroborate the statements set forth in this petition from their own personal knowledge and the most reliable information. and most respectfully and earnestly ask for him the relief sought

John. Metcalfe J Q Gouge W. Geo. Linn H H Tully W. G. Frank J. W. Collins Floyd. Wilson M Burnett M P Savage

W H Hume J W Jones William Smith W. T. Simmons A Kendall B, Stewart James, Lemmon Willis Marksberry Sr Thos A Franklin D. L. Cunningham Jas W, Hutchinson Frank Hodge R, A, Collins F Burch John Rains W, T, Tully John Little David Bays Wm S. Annis T. S. Porter B. N. Carter. Saml. Marksbury

Grant Cir Ct vs

Remit except fees & costs as to Marques

Tho E Bramlette

J. W. Marques.

Bail Bond $800 -- 12th Jany/64