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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-0001-004-3432 BR42-322 to BR42-325

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To His Excellency Tho. E. Bramlett Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioners would most respectfuly represent unto your Excellency that at the September Term 1860 of the McLean Circuit Court Stephen Duval was convicted of the Murder of George Johnson a free man of color and sentenced to be hung, but upon satisfactory representations being made to Governor Magoffin his punishment was Commuted to Confinement in the State Penitentiary for life and he has been in Confinement in the Penitentiary since November 1860 Your Petitioners are informed that since his Confinement he has principally been employed in working in hemp & from that is some other cause his health has become very bad & if he is confined longer in the prison he can not live long and believing that he has already suffered sufficiently for his Offence they would most respectfully & humbly Petition your Excellency for his release. They would remark that his mother is a poor widow and an honest Clever woman She hs furnished two sons to the Federal army one of whom has already given his life to his Country and the other is yet a soldier in the 11th Ky and she has but one small boy left to assist her

Joseph Ricketts Charles Eaves John Napinger Jesse Peavler M. V. Miller Samuel E. Smith E T Moore J. E. Mulligan

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Jesse N Reno Clk Cr Court J R Duporster J. R. Armstrong T. J. Jones clk Co ct. J L Williams J W Mosely Peter Sand Sr G B Eachs P. M. F D Hancock W F Finch Richd G Gayner Newton.S. Roark P. S. Attkinson R. S. Rodkins Geo F Crittenden Amous Jenkings W H Yost W J W McDonald John Jarvis John Vincent Green J. Morris Beverly H Coleman William M Jarvis Jas. E. Coleman James Trygart D. g. Gish Daniel Averhuls J. A. Campbell Wily Jarvis W W Hancock Elijah Stiles M. C. Hay A. B. DeWitt W. A. Keith W G Sharber R. F. Bass Nathan Myer. S M Adkins W. S. Hay D A Martin S Russell L R Reno Plesant Goble R P Jenkins E. W. Martin L.. S.. Stokes H. F. Monroe E. S. Bradley John A. John B. Walker Peter Rothrock D H Myers James Wallace Lewis Eads L. Maufay T. E. Mann W H Melyken Thos. H. Akers John Yeargin L. N. Akers W. D. Lindsey E Dukes G R Hancock B J Shaver P J M C C

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J C Sannfort A Malin H H Johnston M. W. Martin S E King J G Weir J W Hancock Jos Cobb John McIntire C Rice W W Martin C. P. Clemmons David Usry S. D. Chatham Tommas Corrington T B Pittman A. J. Harris Charles Watkins Edward Ramsey W. H. Roark John Rothrock H G Bidwell Thos. T. Walton Lafayette Bidwell F Toll A J David John Clark J S Young Joshua Wakeling Benjamin Drake J. W. wheeldon D Scott John Whitehouse B Y Davis Jos Gish J L Naffsonger John W. Mclevain Eli E. K. Finch J H Nelson D. T. Crumbacker T A Pittman John W Gambling M D G W Williamson Charles Morgan Thomas Bruce J F Jones J W Taylor Chas Morehead Henry Stobaugh C W Rothrock John W. Sudderth A. Miller Simon Miller Benjamin Johnson B. H. Morehead John W. Hollowell John J. Humphrey R. D. Rothrock Thomas R. Ferguson C H Sapper A G Fergson E M Blacklock John B Hughes

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B. C. Bennett Will. T. King Timothy Humphry Jas. T. Morehead J. W. Humphrey T G Clark James Henry James T Morehead Wm Terfune B. S. Hewlett John T. masely G. K. Nall John Wm Turner Wilson C Turner Greenvill P Turner Willis Carhan Oscar Howard B. J. Morehead James Durham C. L. McCowen Lewis McCann Robt Glenn J L McCown J. B. Brown R. Smith John Davis Jabez Durham George. G. Purdy William Artt Samuel Wm Young S. H Curd E O Vandenzen John Duvall W T Wiggins Andrew Glenn Sen. W. H. Walker John Kittinger N Howard Eli Johnson Chas J Taylor William Finch Wm R. Fuller Co F 35 Ky John E Wilkins J R Eads Alex Bruce Benjamin Scott A.. J. Kimbley J. L. Daniel Isaac Miller John Brown Jesse Straud J T Brown J B Scott J Wilkins J H Martin B G Harmon W J Brown S N Bell A. B. Glenn Elias. Kincheloe G W York Samuel Lochry S D Fentress Alex Clark J M Tickinor R Sullivan

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James Stuart Circuit Judge John M Henry Azra Dyer W. Anthony J. B. Hendricks R. W. Allen R C Grumely Z. Stringer W. W. McEuen Peyton Hancock Sanders Eaves Esrom Hendricks Alfred Garst Samuel Coffman Wm H Overstreets Jas Ellis D D Erwin Josiah Settly John Coffman W C Mosley L. B Dillard Robert Decker Jonah Brown George W Tickenor V Vertrees D. T. Steel S M Arnold D McWhitmer J P. Ellison Jacob Whitner W. N. Gibbs C f J. M. Page J. B. Notsinger J Pryer J Arnold A. J. Garst Isaac Rust William more Wm G. Nofsinger J D Dossett John M Eads John Bruce George Wifett Marcus L. Board J. T. Crandell W.. H. Crandell J J West S. N. Patterson John Plain Benj. Coffman F M Blane Elisha vall M B Gross F. C. Granger Beneft J. S. Hill H. G Coleman Elijah Rickey John Danner Orris Hickerson D A Whitmer J W Morehead

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E F Smith Wm S. Nicholls John A. Kirtley James Stobaugh. John Stobaugh W. P gregory John W. Henderson John Wright

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Jonathan Kittinger Jno. T. Her Andrew G Glenn B C Warden W. H. Smith B. D. Ham Jack Garst James W York John F Welehouse J J Rall henry J lewis Penrod Jones M L Ward T. F. Balls Thomas Baxter Martin Rice Presley Smith David Rhoads Harrison Dennis E.. E.. Howerton T R Rowe A.. Jones F. P. M. Sharp J. S. Gatton P. Falkerson J. S. Vaught P. R Yont P F Garrett S. W. Danks H. C. Dillman Lewis Griffith T. E. Fulkerson A W Davis &gt;James McConnell E W Davis B D Jones E R Heck L. R. Slaton E A McLean M C J. Grigory J. L. Taylor Jno. Rutherford C. C. Craig H. T. Ambrose P. Briscoe J. C. Landes Jacob Gish William Wright Jesse Forehand Turner Wakeland Robert Clark J F Davis F. R. Robertson James R. T. Gregory J L Vintan Isaac Yosett Wm B. Wickliffe John J C F Moore D H Whitehouse