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Office Clerk Kenton Ct, Ct,
Covington Ky
To
His Excellency The Governor of Kentucky
Dear Sir, Some days since a petition was forwarded to you requesting the remission of a fine imposed by this court agst Joseph Blackwell for $200 10 for selling Liquor (or keeping a Tipling House) and The Defendant in default of payment was committed to the Jail for one hundred days, His wife has just called on me & says nothing has been heard from the petition, & that She is about despatching a messenger to see about it, I signed the petition asking your Excellency to remit the fine, and desire now ^only^ to say in addition to what is in the pet. That I do not believe Blackwell guilty of the offence & that the witness upon whose testimony he was convicted could not have been as well known to the Jury as to most persons in this community, otherwise they would not have credited his testimony as they appear to have done by their verdict. I hope your Excellency
will interpose & relieve him,
verry truly yours
N, B, Stephens