Petition

Dellingham Mize to Thomas E. Bramlette

1863-11-02

Date of Creation
November 2, 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
BR8-382
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0245
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32203132

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1861
1863-11-02
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Dellingham Mize to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1863-11-02, 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-0001-004-0245 (November 13, 2026).

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{Revenue Stamp}W. M.
2 Nov. 1863

To Hon Thomas E. Bramlet
Govener of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Your Petitioner Dilingham Myze represents to you excellency that at the [...] term of the Allen Equity & Criminal Court, 1861, there was a Judgement rendered agst him in favor of the Commonwealth of Ky. for the sum of Twenty five Dollars ^& costs of Prosecution^ on a charge of a Breach of the peace He represents that one J. M. Sudusan & Bennett Canwell got into a difficulty and your Petitioner was trying to get them parted & to settle it when one Solemen Calahan made an attack upon him He states that the difficulty was forced upon him as he would not had any difficulty. He states that he is a very poor man with considerable family and can hardly live thru hard time. He has a widowed mother who is dependent upon him to a great extent for a support He had two younger Brothers both of which left his mother & joined the 9th Ky Reg Vol. under Col Grider. one of which has since been killed. He asks humbly that your excellency remit that portion of the fine going to the Comth as it is of consideration to him & for which he will ever pray &c

Dellingham ^his X mark^ Mize

Sworn to and subscribed before me by Dillingham Mize, this 2nd day of November 1863.

William Mansfield Judge of the Allen County Court.

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Dillingham Myze
Petition to Governor