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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-0001-004-0479 BR9-259 to BR9-260

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To the Hon Thos E Bramlette Govrnor of the State of Kentucky;

Your petitioner the undersigned would respectfully represent that she was indicted tried, and convicted at the present Term of the Jefferson Circuit Court: for aiding two slaves to Escape and to attempt to make their Escape from their owners.

Your Petitioner states that the indictments which is exhibited herewith, did ^not^ inform her as to what Aid or assistance she gave to the negroes; and she says the proof did not show that she had given any aid or assistance whatever:

She states that she was born married and raised, on white river in the state of Indiana. where her family now lives, that her husband having been broken in fortune and then dying left her homeless and friendles and in poverty She came to the City of Louisville in search of Employment: and she found it in the house of one Mrs Park an old lady living on Magazine Street in the City of Lousiville: She did the most servile duties in the house of Mrs Lydia Parks for some months: when finally having saved some little money she prepared to go home to her sister in Indiana: She told Mrs Parks that she was going: and was prepared to go in an omnibus: When Mrs Parks told her to wait

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until the day after and She would send her Over with two ladies who were going over in a hack: She waited and the hackman came: and two persons dressed as women with vails over their faces came out of Mrs Parks house, and got into the hack taking the back seat in the hack. Your Petitioner then got into the hack taking the front seat: the hack was driven down on to the ferry Boat; where the two women were discovered to be negroes and afterwards turned out to be slaves: your Petitioner was arrested then and placed in Jail where she has been ever since, until conviction: she says she is guiltless of any knowledge that the persons were negroes or slaves who were in the Hack: or that she was in any way connected, with the matter except that she was in a public hack, being conveyed therein over to the Jeffersonville Ferry landing to take the cars: for Indianapolis:

Mattie ^her X mark^ Johnson

We the undersigned join in the above petition Geo. W. Johnston E J, Craig J M Vaughan Wm. Main Wm H. Watts D McPherson.

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K. P. Thixton B F Moore J B Gregory A W R Harris Oliver Lucas Henry Wolford Wm McCarrell John. G. Baxter T C Pomeroy

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Jefferson Cir Ct vs Mattie Johnson

Issue Pardon Tho E Bramlette

Oct term 1863 sentenced 3 years Penitentiary 27th Jany 1864