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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-0001-004-3389 BR42-259 to BR42-260

Mercer County, Kentucky Mercer County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette, Govenor of Kentucky-

We the undersigned citizens of Mercer County Ky. would respectfully represent that at the November term 1864 for the Mercer Circuit Court Solomon Corn was convicted in a charge of larceny to two years confinement in the State penitentiary- He is a young man and before the charge brought against him on which he was found guilty he had been always regarded by all who know him, neighbors friends and acquaintances, as a young man of unexceptionable and exemplary character- Such was the testimony of the witnesses against him. For months before the trial, and almost ever since his arrest he had been confined in the jail of Franklin county, the Judge having removed the prisoners in the Mercer County Jail to Franklin Co. Jail for safe keeping and he was brought up from Frankfort during the term of the court and immediately placed upon his trial and none except the Commonwealth's witnesses being present. He confessed the crime as his first act being done while drunk and on a Chrismas Spree. He is a weak minded young man and very ignorant. His offence consisted

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in taking some small articles of merchandise from a Store in Mercer Co. Ky. He is very poor and has a family dependent on him for support. We think his a case for executive clemency and respectfully petition the interposition of your Excellency in his behalf.

John G. Kyle John Self Wiliam Vom William. R. Salbee B. N. Brewer James Desher J W Easton David Sanders Charles Bruner William Huffman Sec John A Carter Nathan Lawson Sen William H Dollins Jas Donovan B V Sims John Sallee G. C. W. Bennett John Lea J. D. Alfred Isaiah Gabbert A G Hooper D M Johnson J N Devenport Gorge Woner William Pafman James Raos David Helbard L. G. Hale H. Phillips Huston Divine S D Hale George Duncan William Clark

We the undersigned Jurors who found the aforesaid man Solomon Corn guilty of the charge aforesaid also join the petition for executive clemency.

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S gabbert Richard Board Donovan Ebar Dorne Andrew Dorne John G. Kyle C. L. abern H. G. Franklin William Patterson Z S McBrayer Jno. C Galhart Ben C Allen Peter Horn William Broddey Thos Edwards P J M C C James Goff G. A. Cahill Cornelius Donor William quinn J. B Dunoor John Donovan S V Conary M Derringer Samuel Corn Spencer Booth John Lowery John Bemer J. Donovan Peter Hed John Derringer Gor Lamber John Dillard

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Mercer Cir Ct vs Sol. Corn

Refused