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Petition

Richard Durbin to Thomas E. Bramlette

1863-09-23

Document details

Date of Creation: September 23, 1863
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
Box / Folder: BR8-57 to BR8-58
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-0039
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FTP Identifier: 32202926

Mentioned in this document

People: Lawson, Aaron; Meredith, Bradley; Meredith, Frederick; Vincent, Jack P.; Vincent, James Hayes; Walker James, Jr.; Bacon, Jonathan E.; Sohan, Patrick H.; Durbin, Richard; Brooks, S.; [Zetter], T. R.; Bramlette, Thomas Elliott; Hazelip, William; Conklin, William L.; Jones, William T.
Places: Bee Spring, Kentucky; Edmonson County, Kentucky; Kentucky
Organizations: Edmonson Circuit Court
Dates: 1863-09-23; --09; 1863-10-05

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Richard Durbin to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1863-09-23, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0039 (November 12, 2026).

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Sept 23^d 1863
To his Excellency The Governor of Ky

your petition Richard Durbin states at the September ^term^ Inst of the Edmondson Equity & Criminal Court he was found guily of Selling Spiritious Liquor to a minor He states that a neighbor his sent a boy for a quart of whisky & your petitione sent it to him by said boy, & for that he was fined $50 & costs

your peitioner states he is poor has a large family to support & prays your honors clemency in the remission of said fine & will ever paray

Richard Durbin

The undersigned state that they are neighbors of Richard Durbin & that they believe the statements made by him are true & they Join him in his prayer for the remission of said fine

J E Bacon P J C C C
Jas Walker Jun
J. P. Vincent J P E C

W Haslip
S Brooks
T R Zetter

James Lock
Aron Lawson
P H Sohan P. M
Bradley Meredith
James Vincent

Direct to Bee Spring Ky

I Certify that I am personly aCquainted with those men and now them to be Honerable union men and I Join Mr Durbin in his Prayer for Remission of Sd fine F, Meridith P M

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The undersigned States he was counsel for the petitioner that upon trial of the case it was proven by Wm Jones that his father and a neighbour sent him to the house of the petitioner for a quart of whickey which he got and paid for and took home without drinking any of it to this father,s that he was a miner this is substantially the case Mr Durbin is poor & ill able to pay the fine I hope Executive clemency will be extended he deserves it

W L Conklin

Edmonson

Remit all except costs & fees —

T E Bramlette
Oct 5^h/63
vs
Rich^d Durbin