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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-0001-004-3127 BR41-302 to BR41-303

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To his Excellency Tomas E. Bramlette Governer of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizens of Laurel County Ky Petition to your Excelency to parden William J Carer who was tried at the Laurel Curcet Court & convicted August 1863 for the crime of horse stealing his turn of conviction is Four years he was convicted when but a boy and we believe was pursuaded in to it by A man that was exspecting to get the benifeit of the horse his Father was Dead being Just raist by it his Mother he had not a good chance of nowing what was rite & A being shaler witted was easy pursuaded in to things not rite the way he acted with the horse shod plain that he Did not no what he was Doing Rode the horse in the Day time in the same Neightborhood that he was taken he stops at severl houses & told that it was not his horse that he was taking him to annother man all this was Don unbenoence to his Mother & when she herd of it she shed tears over it being poor she need his assistance altho him being afflicted he is not abel to Do mutch altho he is not abel to Don mutch he is all her chance for her assistance & under these surcamstance we Pray your Excelency to Parden him

we the undersined believe these statementes to be true

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Assined C B Faris John E. Johnson W. S. Doak William N. Steel Ths. J. Canifax P J G C W. L. Brown G. W. Miller John Pitman clk W A Miller Dep clk John T Vaughn Levi H Vaughn R D Johnson I William B Johnson being the man that William Jefferson Carrier Stole the Horse from and the one that prosecuted him and had him sent to the State prison for said charge I am now ^willing^ that he be released hoping he will live honest and do better in the future

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Laurel Cir Ct vs Wm J. Carnes

Refused