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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-0001-004-0823 BR10-270 to BR10-271

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To His Excellency Thos. E. Bramlette Govenor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner John Fahay would respectfully state that he was convicted at the May term 1864 of the Jefferson Circuit Court for oneyear upon a charge of stealing 4 1/2 lbs of Tea.

Your petitioner has a wife & three children who would be entirely helpless in the event of the sentence beeing enforced. Your Excellency is respectfully refered to the signers of this petition.

Your petitioner prays your Excellency to Grant him a pardon

John ^his X mark^ Fahay

Gov Bramlett

In the absence of J. R. Dupuy, the Commonwealth's Atty, I prosecuted in the above case. Fahy was guilty. It is, I think, his first offence. The property

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was restored the day it was taken.

The man has a large family, much needing his daily labor for a support. His wife is almost heart-broken. It is a case for Executive clemency

I am very truly Yr Friend

J. G. Wilson

I know very little of the case the wife of the dft seems to have three children & I am told is a good woman & has no reliance for a support for her family except upon the labor of her husband

J R Dupuy

Under all the circumstances I am induced to ask the petitioner's pardon. It may not be a case for Executive clemency, but it is a much better case than that of Brockman or Brown.

Resptly &c P. B. Muir

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Jefferson Cir Ct vs John Fahay

Pardon granted Tho E Bramlette Govr of Ky

Grand Larceny one year 18th May/64