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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-0001-004-1909 BR14-33

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To his Excellency the Govenor of Kentucky Sir.

We the undersigned would most earnestly beg your Excellency's to pardon Mrs Lucinda Bennett. now confined in the Penetentiary, under a sentence, for the crime of advising negroes to escape from their owners.

Her conduct during her imprisonment, has been so good. that the Officers of the Prison. most cheerfully unite with us. in praying, that your Excellency may extend pardon, towards one, (& that one, a woman) who having once done wrong to the laws of the Land. but now humbly sues for pardon.

Signed. T. W. Hammond. Senator. Joshua F Bell F. L. Cleveland R H Field

Lucinda Bennett has been a well behaved woman Since she has been in Prison

H I Todd

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Jefferson Cir Ct vs Lucinda Bennett

Pardoned 31st May 1865