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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-0001-004-3329 BR42-167

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To his Excellency Thos E Bramlett

Your Petitioner being desirous of returning to my mother I have called upon her and my friends to intercede for me with you I acknowledge that I did a Great wrong in leaving her but it was not possible for me to see then what I now see nor was I capable of resisting the force that was then brought against me for my destruction but I now see and feel and I am constrained and now call upon you to pardon me and I will promise you a better account for the future of my life

Humbly yours John Kitchen

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Pardon offence & return the $2.-