Robert P. Steenbergen et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Accession Number

KYR-0001-004-1232

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

BR11-393 to BR11-394

Place of Creation

Washington County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

11 October 1864

Dates Mentioned

1864-10-11

1864-10-15

To his Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Washington County Solicit

Robert P Steenbergen being duly sworn deposes and says that there is a judgment against him ^for $45.00^ and also a judgment against Benjamin F. Steenbergen ^for $40.00^ in the Washington Circuit Court on an indictment for selling whiskey to a slave,. that said whiskey was legally and properly sold as said Steenbergen believed, said slave having what purported to be an order from his master but which order the owner of the slave denied giving on the trial that the prosecution was prompted by a bad state of feeling existing in the neighborhood on the part of those who carried on the same which arose from some very angry litigation that had been conducted in the shape of two slander suits & a prosecution for enfanticide &c with said Steenbergens on one side and the persons who conducted said prosecution against them for selling whiskey &c on the other. —

Wherefore he would respectfully ask that said fines be remitted

R P Steenbergen

Sworn to before me by Robert P. Steenbergen on this 11 day of October 1864

John. M^cIntire P. J. W. C. C

The undersigned would respectfully represent to your Excellency that they are acquainted with Robert P Steenbergen the affiant and that they believe him
to be a man of truth and veracity and hereby petition a remittance of said fine

R S Peters —
W, E, Riley
J. P. Barbour
John M^cIntire

Washington Cir Ct
vs
B. F. & R. P. steenbergen
$45 —
$40 —
Remitted
15^th Oct/64

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