<title type="main">Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Benjamin Howser, James Taylor, William Harrison, Jr., Tarry Brown, William Clark, Lycurgus Hudson, and Jesse Hill, Indictment Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 3 edits between June 21, 2025 and June 21, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

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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-0001-004-2759 BR17-3 to BR17-4

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The Commonwealth of Kentucky against } Anderson County Benjamin, Howser, James Taylor Wm Harrison Jr, Tarry Brown, William Clark, Lycurgus BrownHudson, & Jesse Hill

The Grand Jury of Anderson County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse Benjamin Houser, James Taylor, Wm Harrison Jr. Tarry Brown, William Clark, Lycurgus, Hudson, & Jesse Hill, of the crime of Murder.

Committed as follows -- The said Benjamin, Houser, James Taylor, Wm Harrison Jr, Terry Brown, William Clark, Lycurgus, Hudson, & Jessee Hill on the 5th day of July 1864. in the County aforesaid did feloniously and of His malice aforethought kill and murder John Ash by shooting Him with a gun or pistol against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

L. H. Noble Atty for comlth

witnesses before the Jury James Green Benj Ash Mary E. Spoonamore,

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A true bill R H Crossfield Foreman of Grand Jury

Filed in Court and entered of record the 10th day of Novr. 1865

C H Fenwick Clk,

As clerk of the Anderson Circuit Court, I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Indictment &c found in theSaid ACourt at its November Term 1865

C H Fenwick, c, a, c, c

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Anderson Ct. Ct. Commlth of Ky Agst } Indict Benj. Houser &c copy --