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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-0001-004-1496 BR12-320 to BR12-321

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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Esq

Govr of Kentucky. The undersigned your petitioner would respectfully represent that he is a citizen of Magoffin, and has ever so been, that he is a poor man, with a considerable family upon his hands to support. That in the summer of 1862 he was unfortunately caught in bad company and was more unfortunately forced into a riot, of a very frivolous nature no one being hurt, in the affair He was afterwards arrested under a warrant for committing a breach of the peace, and under said warrant was tried and found guilty and fined $9.50 in the Court of John Patrick Esq Justice of the peace of Magoffin County,

Your petitioner states that at the same time, and feelings growing out of the before named riot he was arrested (through malignity,) for the offense of Adultery and fined $20. in the said court of John Patrick Esq Justice of the peace for Magoffin County. Wherefore he prays that your Excellency will remit the above fines and relieve a poor Sickly man of such an unjust burden -- as the payment of the above fines which he is unable to pay without depriving an innocent female, his wife and Several small children, of the real necessaries of life your petitioner promises to avoid such bad company as above spoken of and in the future to be in such a condition as not to be able under the necessity of asking for Executive Clemency.

Your Servant Mason Gullett

We the undersigned Citizens of Magoffin county and acquaintances of Mason Gaullitt

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Join in the foregoing petition with Mr Gullett and ask for the remission of the above fines as asked by him Feby 20th 1865.

W Coffee clk G W Baker B. F Howard Samuel Hale John Patrick J P m c J E Cooper Co Atty James M Hale Lewis Howard J P m c Wiley Patrick Wiley Adams Lewis W. Gullett Preston H. May Fieldom Adams Ezkiel Gullett Jr. John. D. Bayes Edward Evins Ezkiel Gullett Sr. H J. Roberson John J Rice J P Gullet J J Brown E C McGuire A. B. Rodwine Philip Gose S. W. Mcguire Georg Helton Steven Jones C. C. Gose A Broheim Co Ale Thomas gullet B. B. Adams William Croft Joseph Gardner W E Easterling Joshuay Baye Km Fetterling Charles Minn Thomas Purkins Caleb May Peter Amyx 3000 acres on lean for Wlm Gross

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Justice Peace Magoffin Co vs

Mason Gulletts Petition

$9.50, & $20. Remitted 30th May 1865

D. D. Secklett Salyersville Ky.