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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Gov of Kentucky

Whereas at the present term of the Owen Circuit Court John J Auth was fined Three Hundred and fifty dollars for an alledged misdemeaner charged to have been committed on one Jeptha Estes in the Spring of 1864 while the late war was still going on

now we would respectfully represent the circumstances of the case to be about these and John L. Wilhoite who had been a Soldier in the Union Army in the Company of Capt Thos Ward in Col Jacobs, Regiment and that sd Wilhoite came a long and still represented himself to be a soldier and in the service and representing also that he had seventy soldiers under his command ^men at hand^ and that he had orders to arrest sd Estes and for the purpose of doing so forced a number of citizens to assist him in ^making^ this arrest and among the number was your petitioners we would further represent that there was no arrest made no person hurt no property injured whatever sd Wilhoite had always been the name of being a good soldier and ^was^ Orderly sergeant of his company, we would further represent that your petitioner is a very poor man has a large ^family^ numbering a wife and nine children who are entirely dependant on him for a support now therefore