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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-0001-004-1261 BR11-443 to BR11-444

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October 19th 1864

The undersigned a citizen of Green Township Hamilton County Ohio" being called on by Mrs Eliza Benson of Said Township for a letter of recomendation of caractor of her Son William Benson, who is now confined in the Frankford Penetensary Ky" for a crime Said to be committed in Louisvill in 1863 having been a resident and a citizen of Green Township for the last fifty Eight, which enables me to be personally acquainted with mostley all its citizens and espeasley with the Said William Benson' and his Parents his Father lived for upwards of fourty years my close neighbour, and when he died in 1851 he was an acting Justice of the peace and esteemed by all his neighbours as an upright Man he left at his decease his widow Eliza Benson and Six Small children with little means for there Support William Benson being the oldest child I have known him intimately from his childhood up to manhood" and I take pleasure in Saying that I never Knew from Personal Knowledg or from hearsay any thing alledged agains his General caractor untill his arrest at Louisvile K.y.

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and if Guilty, I am Satisfied from knowing his former caractor that he must of been under the influance of Strong drink, or the influance of Vettern in crime to perpretuat the deed that he is convicted of" his Mother being poor not having any means except that Supplied by her children,, relies entirely upon friends and the Clemency of the Governor for his pardon

E. W. Carson Justice of the peace for the last 9 years

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The Respectability of his Parents and his former Good caractor I hope will have a bearing in the Young Mans favour

E. W. Carson