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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0269 R3-398 to R3-399

Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky Augusta, Bracken County, Kentucky 1863-03-25 Correspondence English 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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Augusta Ky March 25th 1863 Hon Jas. W. Tate Dear Sir

I write by the same mail which conveys this a letter, one to Gov. Robinson in reference to a fine imposed upon a gentleman by the name of John Elliott of Bracken County -- He was fined for giving a negro man a "horn" of Whiskey at an oyster supper given by his (the negro,s) young master & others, and in the presence of his young master --

The fine was for procured

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by an enemy of Elliott,s & not by the owner of the slave --

Mr Elliott is a Hotel Keeper & a clever gentleman, & I think with others that the fine should be remitted under the peculiar circumstances -- Upon such an occasion as that, in the presence of the negro,s Master, who one would dream of being made responsible for giving him a dram under the circumstances,

Please call the Governors ear attention to this matter at your his earliest leisure

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& if remitted enclose the evidence to me --

Sincerely your friend Thornton F. Marshall