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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-0001-004-3281 BR42-93 to BR42-94

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To his Excellency Govenor Bramlett of Kentucky

Your petitioner Samuel Miles will Respectfully state to your Excellency, That in September last that his son William ^Miles^ was arrested on a charge of Robery, and was by the Examing court bound over to further trial in a bond of Three thousand dollars, your petitioner being the father of the said William Miles as aforesaid_ and not believing the charge to be true, knowing that your petitioner had raised his son, up to Industrious and honest habits Went upon the aforesaid bond of Three thousand dollars for the said William Miles appearance at the last September Term of the Ballard Circuit Court, but the said William Miles being young and inexperienced and it being the first time he ever was brought into court charged with crime became from some cause not Known to your petitioner become frightened and intimidated and left the country before the court to which he was bound to appear came on - and is gone to parts unknown to your petitioner, Your petitioners further states that he is now nearly sixty years of age and has a large and helpless family, to support, and that he has is a little farm consisting of one Hundred and thirty acres

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of Land, Which would not pay the bond if sold, and if sold to pay said bond would leave your petitioner and family in a helpless conditiion. In consideration of the foregoing statements your petitioners humbly prays your Excellency to remit so much of said bond Which has been taken for forfeited as ^is^ in your power to remit, and he will ever pray, &c

Samuel Miles

The undersigned citizens of Ballard and McCracken counties, Respectfully state that the petitioner is an old citizen of McCracken County Ky, and has always and is as yet regarded as an honest Industrious old Man, & concur fully in the statements made in his petition We therefore Respectfully pray your Excellency to Interpose in behalf of the old Gentleman

Thos. H. Corbett B. F. Billington Richard Midleton S. Tally W T Tally M D Smith Sr T. W. Taylor N M. Shoode Wm White W. S. Watson J. H. Stovall David Miller George Gord G B Stranghn D B Frass R J Crouch J T Wyatt C C Ternell W H Duncan G Blance G T Johnson S S Lee J T odonlay S C Hook J A Carpenter N H Jackson Carrel Armstrong T. F Harvey Rufus MC witt

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G A Flood Jacob Hamilton F N Neal W. L. Stahl S S Stall S. L Powell A. F. Howle H G Black M M Hall W. D. Dean W. L. Skinner J. T Taylor William Kidd J. H Crouch R E Gholson Wm H McGee W A Howell D. B. S. P. Robertson B F Hawirth E R Hall A T Adams G. H. Ashbrook A. Austin H Ryan W N Puckett G B Stigall John. A. Ashley Jaret. M. Ashley B. Willingham W. H. Dillion J. A. Masheu A Mathews J.. B.. Ross W. H. Parkam J. C. Minor J. C. Womble J. V Powell James Scott B.. F.. Coglier J. A. Brackin William Crabtree W D Page Benjamin Kimmel J. B. Cross Charles Roark Jno E Jett Wm R Rudolph F M Harris Wm A. Jett E. P. Overstreet B. Fauntleroy T.. S.. Steger D R Wilson Henry Unsell P M Unsell P. M. Scott A.. J.. Trice A T Colwell H H Sternes J. D. White Z. W. Bugg Paul ,W, Turrell

Ballard County Refused

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C. L. Gate P J B C C & by me the cause was tried as an Examing court W M Ransom. Joseph Terril Lafayett Rich David Hogan Samuel Caruthers