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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-0001-004-3167 BR41-207 to BR41-208

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To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Governor of the State of Kentucky

Your Petitioners the undersigned citizens of Breckinridge County, would respectfully represent to Your Excellency that on the 20th day of October 1863, one William Gross was committed to the Jail of said county at Hardinsburg on a charge of larceny, and that his bail was fixed by the examining court at $200.

Your petitioners would further state that on the 31st day of October 1863, Edward Pate, Ezekiel Fisher, R. L Newsom, Thomas N. Warfield, Barnet Lillard, Edwin Hambleton, Marion Hambleton, M. N. Dent & C. T. Rhodes, executed to the Commonwealth of Kentucky a bail-bond in the sum of $200, conditioned for the appearance of the said William Gross in the Breckinridge Circuit Court on the first day of the next April term 1864, whereupon the said Williams Gross was discharged form prison.

Your petitioner would further state that the said William Gross soon after his release enlisted in the military

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service of the United States, and continued in said service until long after the said April term 1864, of said Breckinridge Circuit Court, thus rendering it impossible for the sureties above-named, to bring him before the said Court at its said April term 1864, They would also state that at the Oct term 1865, of the Breckinridge Circuit Court a Judgment was rendered against said sureties on said bail bond, and an execution issued theron.

Your Petitioners, therefore, believing that it would be a great hardship on the sureties aforesaid to be compelled to pay the forfeiture of said bail-bond, do most earnestly desire and beseech Your Excellency, to remit so much thereof as Your Excellency is by law empowered to remit

James S. Hapnell I was at the time Dept Provo Marshall of the county, as well as U.S. Commissioner, and believe these facts ^statements^ to be true John W Pruitt J. S. Wilkerson W. G. Scott Jno C. Babbage F Walter Wm Vest A. C. Shacklett A L. Simons Hiram Pullan John D. Babbages J B. Simons A. B. Skillman John McGavock

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J.T. Miller F. Worlery Peter Schmick Laf. LaHeist Wm H Webb John Gregory D C Garraway John D. Gregory N. Mc C. Mercer J. C. Mercer J. K. Mercer S T Haynes John Vest E W Deal Wm Ahl J T Neaton John Walker B. Fisher R. H. Bouncer Robert Newton Caleb Hawkins John A Gregory Wm S. Branham Ed R Cowder T Sawyer J. E. Kirth J. A. Murray A. K. Fisher Eli H. Deane R. S. Skillman T. C. Dowell Wm J. Robertson J W Holmes William Kingsbury William Hensey James Mattingly G. W. Carrvile W H Beamer Chas Deane Saml Harrods Thos Holmes Nathan Raitt C E Haynes Saml Carson W Witt Geo. A. sites R Board Jas T. Gaff David R. Murray Jr N. L. Hensley J R Dehaven Wm P Chapin Owen Pruitt A Wilkerson J. C. Heist

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Breckinridge Cir Ct vs Suereties of Wm Gross $200. Forfeiture