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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-0001-004-2384 BR15-306

Whitley Court House, Whitley County, Kentucky Whitley Court House, Whitley County, Kentucky 1865-09-27 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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I. A. Skeen & Harvy Keer Petitions

To his Excellency -- the Governor of the Comlth of Kentucky -- Your Petitioners Isaac A. Skeen and Harvy Keer (Citizens of Whitley County) States that at the march term of the Whitley Circuit Court 1865 They were tried and fined fifty Dollars ^each^ under a charge of malicious Stabing -- That their Council Drew a petition for them which petition was forwarded to your Excellency -- (but which Seemes to hav have been miss Laid -- ) That Said petition was for the purpose of asking a remitance of Said fines -- That Said petition was assigned by the Judge and Comlths. Atty -- That their Council is absent from the County That the Judge and Comwlths Atty are also at this time absent from this County Consequently we cannot obtain their Signatures to this petition -- That the witnesses on whome they relied and by whome they Could have made out their Justification -- never returned -- back from the Service of the United States. That James Stephens the man who was ^Slightly^ Stabed had Struck your petitioner Skeen with a chair three times and had knocked your petitioner Keer in the fire with a chair before there was any resistance on the part of your petitioners -- That Keer was Struck for trying to get hold of the chair with which Stephens was Strikeing Skeen -- In Justice we ask your -- Excellency if consistent to remit Said fines --

I. A. Skeen Harvy. Keer --

Whitley C H. Ky Sept. 27th 1865

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Whitley.C. H Sept 27th 1865

We the undersigned would respectfully ask Your Excellency to remit the fines against Skeen and Keer -- We think it would be but Justice to them to do So -- if Consistent with -- your pardoning power

Thos owsley Joel Baker P J W C Murphy A L Solomon Cox Wm Bowman W. H. Varney J. T. Keenan James F Sullivan W C Cox D S L, L, Sharp James Adkins L. D. Sutton tinnen Thos C Bur J. H. Wood J, Q, Bartman W W Silas Prewit Lewis Adkins A I Curd M Richardson J. F. Sutton John Tyrel Foley clerk of the Whitley county court Daniel W Carroll Albert. T. Brown M. V. B. Sutton A. R. Barton M. V. Rany Hiram Faulkner John H Burch J J M. B. Ryan Joseph franklin culberth Ham Meadors Frank Rains C. Hann C, W, C, J. L. Cutberth C, S, Jackson McDowell