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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-0001-004-3158 BR41-196 to BR41-197

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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentuck

Your petitioners would Respectfully represent to Your Excellency that Elijah Jett a very worthy citizen of the county of Bracken and Commonwealth of Kentucky together with William H. Reynolds, Nicholas D. King & Patrick Crawford & Noah Johnson who has heretofore Petitioned your Excellency were Indicted at the August Term 1865 of the Circuit Court for the County & State aforesaid for a riot committed as charged on Saturday preceeding the August Election 1865: Your petitioners state that they were many of them present at the time Said Riot was charged to have been committed and that the parties accused committed no such act; neither injured the person or property of any citizen in the county, the Excitement not just on the verge of the Election, and all was Excitement in this country at the time and all that took place at the time was in hand & Exciting conversations growing out of the Political Excitement in the county at that time. Your petitioners believe that Your petitioners case presents strong consideration for your interposition in his behalf

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and that in view of all the circumstances connected with this whole affair we would Earnestly appeal in your Excellency to remit the fine of $100 assessed against your petitioner. Elijah Jett at the February Term 1866 of the Bracken Circuit Court as far as you have the power we Earnestly believe that the Ends of Justice requires and demands it Said Jett is a very poor Man and was a Soldier in the United States Service for years and is a peacable and quiet citizen all of which is humbly submitted in your Excelleny for In behalf of said Elijah Jett

Names J B Wallingford Jno R Adams Nimrod Routh Mason Washburn William Garrard A Andrew F W. E. Gillaspie ex capt Thos. Taylor A. T. Wallingford W. W. Kennon D W Ogdon C. C. Kennon Jesse Hampton Henry Ogdon Names E. G. McCarty Jr A P Brown L N Johnson P J Brown M J Balinger Elihu Galloway Wm H. Galloway W B McCarty A W McCarty G F Johnson Jos M. King James Brown S E Marshall John W Brown

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Geo. W. Green J P Moor Bela Ogdon Jos Duncan Johnathanas Brown Chas Brown John Mc Clanahan John Moury B F Baley J W Tailor H H Washburn Squire Washburn E. Jett Jno H. Jenkins Elijah Jenkins Jesse P Howard James I Ellis Whiley Peter Workman John W Woods George Rogers James H Jenkins Lewis H Denman Simon Rice Ex Capt Ca A 40 Ky t B Figgen Noah Johnson Jasper Johnson C H McCarty J. Wm Brown Jesse B Brown Abner Haley Richard Bell Henry W Brown John B Wooford A Brown William Brown James Rice Squire Mann John S Reed H Mann James M Read J. W. Blades H. C. Weaver D. C. B. Ct Ct P. N. Weaver R. J. Hughey G. P. Freer P. M

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Elijah Jett Petition