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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-0001-004-0828 BR10-277 to BR10-278

1864 Petition English 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 Governor Bramlette

Your petitioner John Schroeder respectfully states that he is only 15 years and two months old. He states that he was found guilty on the 14th instant in the Jefferson Circuit Court of the charge of maliciously stabbing Andrew Doran on the 3rd Sept last. He was indicted tried and found guilty with his father David Schroeder. He states that he was present and witnessed the difficulty that took place at the time, between Doran and his father but that he your petitioner took no part in the difficulty. The jury found his father guilty and said that he should be confined in the penetentiary for two years and your petitioner one, but the ^Jury^ recommended your petitioner to the clemency of your Excellency. He makes an attested copy of the verdict part hereof. He prays your Excellency to pardon him and he will ever pray &c.

John ^his x mark^ Schroeder

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 17th 1864 by John Schroeder.

John N. Mattingly Notary Public Jeff Co Ky

To the Governor

We the undersigned pray your Excellency to grant the foregoing petition

John N. Mattingly M A Walker Philip Fiskey

I respectfully unite with the Jury in recommending the boy John Shroeder to Executive clemency

P. B. Muir

I have known the petitioner John Schroeder for four years last past. His father is my near neighbor. John is a peaceable good natured boy and I believe him a good & honest.

Isaac R Greene