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 November 12, 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-0001-004-0676 BR10-36

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1864-04-26 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": 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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To his Excellency Gov Bramlette

The Undersigned would represent to your Excellency that at the Augt Term 1859 of the Fayette Circuit Court Dudly Kent was fined $250 for Keeping a disorderly house and the undersigned was induced to become his surity on the Replevin bond for the debt -- Kent paid the Costs of the judgment and the part coming to the Attorney for the Com'th and procured from B. Magoffin then Governor of the state a respite of the debt for 12 months which respite is dated on the 26th day of Oct 1859 and is on file in the records of the Court here -- In the year 1859 Kent left the Country & has not been heard of since & is supposed to be dead, Your Petitioner Supposed that the entire debt had been remitted, but the sheriff recently informed him that he had an execution against Petitioner -- for $175 & int --

Your Petitioner is a poor man and it would almost break him up to pay this debt

He agreed to go on his bond, to save him from prison, Kent was a young man who had no fam

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ily -- and who had borne a good reputation until a short time before this indictment

Your Petitioner begs that your Excellency will remit him the amount of the fine --

Lexington Apl 26. '64 W. H. Fox

We solicit the Governor to remit the fine above spoken of --

Davis A Luger

Chas S. Bradley J. H. Harrison DS Chas F Lowry John, H, Werts Thos. P. Nichols Deputy ^Sheriff^ D. BushT D. Ballard N. C. Pruders Augs Clark I. T. Edge H T Duncan Tho Bradley A. D. Carr Geo B Kinkead M C Johnson Jno B Norton

I concur in this petition very Sincerely Leslie Combs