Lewis Butcher to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-0305

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

BR8-480 to BR8-481

Place of Creation

Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

8 November 1863

Dates Mentioned

1863-11-08

1863-11-16

1863-11-19

Mt Vernon Ky
Nov 8^th 1863
To His Excellency Thos E Bramlette Gov of Ky:

Dear Sir your Petitioner Lewis Butcher would most Respectively State that he was fined $60,⁰⁰ & costs at the last term of the Rockcastle circuit court for retailing spirituous liquors. Your petitioner would state that he had previous to the selling obtained license in partnership with a Mr Watts. to keep tavern and retail liquor = during the time (last fall) the Rebel and union armies passed the road pretty much broke up my tavern stand and destroyed all my stock of liquor except about [ ] gallons, which I hid, and it being dangerous ~~and~~ not safe to have anything on the road I took the liquor about 150 yards to my horse mill on the premises, and being ignorant of the provisions of the law I call upon Esqr. Owens one of our nearest Magistrates and he informed me that he thought I had a right to sell any where on the premises so I retailed what I had hid, at the horse mill, done within the time for which I had procured license, our first grand Jury got an indictment against me for it, I consulted a lawyer found I had violated the law, so I confessed a Judgement for $60⁰⁰ costs. ~~for~~ which I would most Respectfully ask you to omit, as my intentions was not to violate the law of the land, I am very Respectfully

Lewis Butcher

I do hereby certify that Lewis Butcher appeared before me, and made oath
that the facts set forth in the foregoing Petition are true to this best of his Knowledge

Nov 16th 1863

B K Bethurum P J R C

We the undersigned citizens of Rockcas county have been acquainted with M^r Lewis Butcher for a number of years, and know him to be a truthful, law abiding, man, & ~~[...]~~ a good citizens and we would be pleased to see him relieved of the find alluded to in his Petition-

M J. Cook
W. A. Brooks
B K Bethurum
Edwin Shivel
W M Fish Ck of the Rockcastle County Court
Jas L Joplin
Charles A Redd
Daniel. R Sauder
R G Wms P M

Rockcastle Cir Court
vs
Lewis Butcher
$60 —
Remt^d
19^th Nov/63

Refered to Secty of State for reply

Bramlette Gov^r

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