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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-0001-004-3490 BR42-424 to BR42-425

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His excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitionist John.W. Belcher would Respectfully represent to your Exellency that at the last November term of the Wolfe Circuit Court he was fined $21.00 for living in Adultry He admits that ^he^ is Guilty of the offence Charged but would further represent to your Excellency that his wife had Left him and took to herself Another man and was liveing in Perry County Kentucky which during the war of 1861 & 5 was overrun with guerilas and out Laws that he had Brought Suit for a Divorce before he taken the Second wife and the Courts of Said County was Supprest by the out Laws afore mentioned that he would not have committed Said offence if the Laws had been open there fore he asks that So much of said fine as is Going to the Comonwealth be remited that he be for Ever and henceforth released from the Payment of Said fine and will Ever Pray that the Same be Don

John.W. Belcher

We the underSigned citizens of Wolfe County would respectfully represent that John W Belcher your Petitionest is a fit Subject for Executive Clemency and Join in Prare with him and ask that he be forever and henceforth Pardoned and released from the Payment of Said fine and Ever Pray that the Same be Done

names Jno. G. Profitt J. P. W. C. Persons names

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William Stamper Philip Williams John G Spencer Martin andrew Williams Socrates Kincaid W C Miller Edward kincaid G W Spencer David Spencer William Bush Ira. Huff John profett W. M. Shoemaker perrey Lewis James P Legg C W C Samuel A Shepherd D J Shoemaker John C Spencer Lycurgus Kincaid James Spencer Esquire T. D. Treadway Miller Zachariah N Wells Jermiah Spencer James Raboufe James Spencer S S Profitt Andrew J. Spencer Lois Gilly William Mills Zachariah Moore John D Jimeson M. E. Shackelford Thomas Hamilton J C. Shoemaker Jacob Wireman Jeremiah Profitt Col Moore James Spencer Moses Spencer Philip H Shoemaker Willaim M. Profitt

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Wolfe C. C. vs Jo W. Belcher

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Campton Wolfe County Ky

To his Excelency Thomas E Bramblett Governor of Ky

I hope you will remit the fine as set fourth in the enclosed petition and if so I will send you your fee imediatly Send it to the care of William F Hanks Jeffersonville Montgomery County Ky

C. M. Hanks