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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-0001-004-2872 BR17-174

Webster County, Kentucky Webster County, Kentucky 1865-12-29 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Kentucky Webster County Sct Decr 1865 No23

On this 29th day of December 1865 personally appeared before me C W Cook Judge of the Webster County Court Bassel Watson of lawful age and a resident citizen of said County who being by me duely sworn says that on the 13ofth day of August last (The day on which Sam Dial was killed) he was Captain of Company (A) 1st Ky State Forces and that his Company was at that time stationed at Clayville in the County of Webster & State of Ky. That at that time many of the late Rebel soldiers and guerrillas were returning to their homes in Webster & Union Counties and that he acting under the instructions of his superior officers had given orders to all his men to arrest all returned guerrillas & bring them to his Headquarters at Clayville and that E N Jones and Gabriel Nall who belonged to his company were acting

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under his instructions & orders when they went on the said 13th day of August last to arrest the said Sam Dial and he has no doubt that the circumstances attending the killing of said Dial are correctly set forth in the petition herewith sent & which I have examined & signed. He further states that he knows the statements contained in said petition in regard to the character of said Dial are true and that he believes the said Jones & Nall ought to be pardoned

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Subscribed & sworn to before me by Bassel Watson this 29th of Decr 1865 --

C W Cook, P, J, W, C, C