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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-0001-004-2773 BR17-34 to BR17-35

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To his excellency Thos E Bramlet Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your petitioner James Estep was fined at the present December Term (1865) for one act of retailing Liquor $20 -- he says it was an inditement long before the War and he says that he was fined for the same offense ^before^ -- he says he is poor -- been was a soldier in the Federal service for near three and Honorable discharge -- He asks pardon or remission for the same

James ^his X mark^ Estep

atest G N Brown

we unite in the prayer of Jas Estep above we think it is right we Know he was a soldier as stated & a poor man

Joseph Boyar George N Brown Ambrose Morris

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A, E, Adams Jas M Sowards Hutcherson Justice Wm Justice Freman Williams Jake Rice W W Buckley W C W Sowards. Jno Harkins Jno Lee Hatcher W M Scott Wm Sword H. C. Sowards Thomas J Sowards William Vaughn John Scott James Honaker O, C, Bowles Lewis Sowards W, O, B, Ratliff Hilliard Wilams, clerk of Pik county ct Clinton V Buskirk Mitchel, Clay R. T. Burns J. E. Ratliff Arch Huffman S N Vaughan Robert Ford William Wedington J R Mann T J Owens Dpty James Damron

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James Estep Petitnr

Resides Piketon Pike Co Ky
Send to G N Brown

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Pike Cir Ct vs Jas Estep $20 Tipling Remitted 23d Dec/65