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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-0001-004-2469 BR15-433

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To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlett Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky --

Your Petitioner Benjamine Underwood States that he was indicted in the Jessamine Circuit Court in two cases the one for Keeping a tipling house and in the other for retailing Spritous liquors, and at the March Term of said Court 1865. Judgment was rendered against him in each case by default, in the one case for Sixty Dollars and costs in the other for Twenty Dollars and costs --

Your Petitioner States that he is a very poor man with a wife & several Small children entirely dependant upon the labor of your petitioner for a support, that his health has been such as to disqualify him from performing labor for several years except to a very limited extent and if he is compelled to pay said fines that it will leave him and family destitute, He further states that it is his determinationneveragainto be guiltyofsaidoffenses

He therefore prays your excellency to remit said fines &c

B ^his X mark^ Underwood

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The undersigned citizens of Jessamine County (who are acquainted with the Petitioner Benjamine Underwood) in consideration of the pressing necesaties of the Petitioner and his family at the time said offenses were committed, his feeble health, poverty and reformed habits, most earnestly unite with him in his petition to your excellency to remit said fines and recommend him to Executive clemency --

John A Willis William Watts J. S, Brouaugh Saml. R. Welch Thos & Wilmore L T. Hemphill Jones Beudine John H Dawes Isaac Bourn J W. Wilmore Tom R Letcher Geo Brown Phil Karrick J L Mcafee

Jessamine Cir Ct vs Benj Underwood $60, Tipling $20, Retailing Remitted 24 Oct /65