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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-0001-004-3495 BR42-431

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State and Commonwealth of Kentucky Jefferson County and Circuit Sct.

October Term of the Jefferson Circuit Court in the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight Hundred and Sixty. The jurors of the Grand Jury impannelled and sworn to inquire in and for ^the^ body of the County of Jefferson in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in their oath present that John Breckinridge late of said County laborer on the First day of September in the year eighteen hundred and Sixty in the said County of Jefferson and State of Kentucky with force and arms Feloniously had and kept in his possession certain false and forged counterfeit Bank notes purporting to be payable by the Bank of Ashland a Bank duly incorporated by Law in the United States in the words and figures as follows "To Wit." The Bank of Ashland Kentucky will pay at their office at Shelbyville to Bearer Ten Dollars on demand Ashland Jany 1 1857.

{ E. W. Martin Cashr. Hugh Means Prest.

And are other forged & counterfeit Bank not purposting to be payable by the Bank of Ashland a Bank duly incorporated by Law in the United States in the numbers & Figures as follows

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To Wit" The Bank of Ashland Kentucky will pay at their office at Shelbyville to bearer Ten Dollars on demand Ashland Jany 1. 1857

E. W. Martin Cashr. Hugh Means Presd.

He the said John Breckinridge well knowing the same to be forged and counterfeit with the intent of circulating the same Contray to the form of the Statute in that case made and provided and against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

E. S Craig Atty for Commonwealth 7th Ju Dis.

Witnesses for Commonwealth Wm R. Ray Jo Sweeny Alex Cross Gus Hatzel A Copy Att Wm. H. Slaughter Clk By Robt Murphy D. C

(A) Shelby Circuit Ct. Commonwealth vs } Indictment for Having in possession counterfeit money with intent to circulate the same John Breckinridge

John Breckinridge
A True Bill Thos Quigley Foreman
A Copy Att Wm. H. Slaughter ck By Robt. Murphy
Refused

Fee & H. 75