Nancy Allen et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-0024

Document Genre

Petition

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867

Item Location

BR8-36 to BR8-36A

Date of Creation

15 September 1863

Dates Mentioned

---08

1863-09-15

1863-09-21

To his Excellency Thomas.E Bramlet
Govnor of Kentucky —

Your Petitioner Nancy Allen~~you~~ would respectfully state, that she was indicted for Keeping a disorderly House in the city of Louisville, and upon her trial ^in the city court of Louisville^ she was find ^on Tuesday the 8^th Inst^ Forty Dollars, She states that upon the trial She could not procure her witness and the trial was had and concluded She being unable to get her witness before the court, She states that if She could have gotten her witness to the court She could have establised the fact that She was a Quiet good neighbor that she always attended to own business and that her House was always Quiet and orderly. She further states that She is poor and unable to pay the fine without great distress to herself and family-. She states that She is ^a^ free woman of colour having ^a^ Husband endeavoring to make an honest living by work. She therefore respectfully asks of your Excellency to remit the fine imposed upon her by the said Court, and She will ever pray. Septr 15^th 1863

The undersigned respectively join in the above petition.

Nancy Allen
S. A. Atchison
Jno, H. Talbott
C K Fairfax
J P Gailbreath
H. C. Russell, D. M.

I as agent collected the rent of the House Nancy Allen lived in & never Saw nor heard of any Disorderly conduct about the house.

WesleyFlood

I most respectfully join in the above prayer of this coloured woman, being familiar with the facts I do not believe that the persecution was urged for the public-good, but merely to gratify private feeling

~~H C Russell Dm~~E. S. Craig

Much personal ill feeling certainly Existed against the petitioner Nancy Allan which was clearly manifested by the witesses for the Comlth, Judging from facts. which have been made Known to me since the trial, are upon which I can rely:- I respectfully, suggest that Executive clemency will have been, justly bestowed if the fine ~~were~~ be remitted

W. G Reasor
City atto

From the facts stated above by Mr Reasor from his personal Knowledge I think the Executive clemency would be properly [...] bestowed by remitting the fine

Geo. W. Johnston

Jefferson County
Remission Refused
21^st Sept/63
Tho E Bramlette
Ans^d21^st Sept/63

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