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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-0001-004-3009 BR43-112

Magoffin County, Kentucky Magoffin County, Kentucky Petition 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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To his Excellency Tho E. Bramlette Gov. of Kentucky

Your humble petitioner Ephram Hamon respectifully informs your honor that at the November Term of the Magoffin Circuit Court 1865 there was a fine assessed agt your -- petitioner for the sum of Twenty dollars for selling one pint of Whiskey this petitioner further states that he has no recollection of Selling spirits in less quantites than a quart and it never was his practice so to do,,

he further states that he is a poor man encumbered with a large family and has made some spirtis during the late Rebellion and has a heavy tax to pay on the same,, and that he will have to make some sacrifize of his property,, to pay the above named fine, unless restrained by your honor

Wherefore this petitioner asks your to remit said fine,, for the reasons above given Ephram Hamon

We the undersigned Citizens of Magoffin County Join in the prayer with the above named petitioner for the remission of the above named fine on account of his poor condition and large family

A P Cooper J Price Moses Adams W W Harris J L Rowland

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W J Coffee Sheriff B. F. Howard D. M. Atkinson B F Howard William Patrick D D Sublett

Ephraim Hamon petitioner Magoffin Cir. Ct vs } Pet Ephraim Harmon