To his Excellency Thos.E. Bramlette, Gov of Kentucky:

Your Petitioners Joseph Owens and William Perdue state that Nancy Ann Denney killed one Martin Kennedy and was arrested and tried before a court of Enquiry; sent to farther trial and admitted to bail in the sum of One thousand Dollars. Said Nancy Denney failed to appear, and the bond was forfeited and judgment rendered in the Wayne Circuit Court for One thousand Dollars and costs. The said Nancy was perfectly justifiable in law and right for said homicide. The killing was in self defence as was abundantly shown by the evidence before the Court of Enquiry -and the Justices of the Peace, contrary to their judgment of right and law sent said Nancy to further trial not because of her guilt but to save her from being mobbed and killed by certain reckless and dissolute men who were at that time returned or discharged soldiers and claimed to be friends of the deceased, and who publicly declared and threatened upon the day of the Examining trial, and afterwards that they would take her life if she was turned loose, and they were prepared to put their threats into execution, the country at that time being in such a condition that the civil law or authorities were entirely inadequate to restrain them. In consequence of these facts, the said Nancy was advised by good, prudent, and law abiding citizens to leave the country to avoid a mob which she did for that purpose, and in pursuance of that advice and not to avoid a trial because her case was and is notoriously justifiable, for the whole