Thomas O'Brien et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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KYR-0001-004-2691

Document Genre

Petition

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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

BR16-327 to BR16-328

Place of Creation

Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

22 November 1865

Dates Mentioned

1865-11-22

1865-07-27

1865-12-02

Thomas O'Brien et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 22 November 1865, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, BR16-327 to BR16-328, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-2691, (accessed May 3, 2024).

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Catlettsburg Ky
Nov 22^d 1865
To His Excellency
Tho^s E,, Bramlett
Governer of Ky

Your Petitioner Thomas OBrien would Respetfully Represent that he had been Quarter Master Sergent in the first Ky light Artilery and was mustered out of said service at Louisville Ky on the 27th July 1865 and from Louisvile visited Ashland Boyd County to see his sister Ann Roberts, that before he left Louisville he was presented with a pistol and carried the same with him to Ashland Boyd county Ky inside of the corporate limits of said Town and was Arrested for Carrying concealed deadly weapons: that in surrendering the Pistol to the Marshall of said Town and his accompanying Guard he was charged with a commission of a breech of the public peace and was tried both for Carrying concealed deadly weapons and a breech of the public peace, And for the latter was fined $30,,00 and sentenced to 15 days imprisionment in the county Jail and for the former was fined $50,,00 your petitioner beleives that both of these fines was wrongful and therefore asks your Excellency to
Remit said fines and pardon him of the sentence of imprisonment he says he has been is now and expects to be an obedient man to the laws of his country he asks your Executive interposition and as in duty will every pray &c

Thomas O'Brien

Thomas Obrien says the statements in the foregoing Petition are true

Thomas O'Brien

Sworn to before me by Thomas O"Brien this 22^d Nov 1865.

John M. Burns Notary Public Boyd County

We the undersigned Citizens of Ashland and Catlettsburg Boyd County Ky beleive the statements sworn to by the above petitioner are true and unite with him in the prayer of the foregoing petition and hope your honer will remit his fines and punishment

W. M Conly
R. R. Harris
John [...]
John B. Connelly
E Hughes

M, Williams
John M Burns
William Kunstman
W^m. Shoomaker
James eaton
J. A. Klaiber
James R. McBrayar
H. M. Childs
Randolph Botts
D Shine

Police Judge Ashland
vs
Thos O Brien
one $50.
3 $30. & 15 days
imprisonment
Remitted 2^d Dec /65

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