Petition

G. T. Wood et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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
BR8-427 to BR8-428
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0269
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FTP Identifier
32203156

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Dates
1861-04
1863-11-10
1863-11-16
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Citation

G. T. Wood et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 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-0001-004-0269 (November 15, 2026).

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To the Governor of the State of Kentucky your petitioners would represent that at the April Term 1861 of the Hart Equity & Criminal Court Richard Murray was fined in the sum of $100. together with costs &c upon a charge for carrying concealed deadly Weapons. Now your petitioners would further represent that said Richard Murray is a poor young man ^of family^ and is wholly unable to pay said fine. Who and that they believe his case is one in which the power your excellency has of remitting fines may be properly exercised he is unable to labor by reason of having accidently shot himself.

G. T. Wood

R S Thomas
Walker Shipp
J R Leslie
John. L Robertson
W. W. Cates
J,, R,, Newton
J. L. Tharp
G B Tharp
John S Thornberry
J. M. C. Road
John Shipp
Saml, Hodges
J. Chase
Stokeley Smith
Jeremiah Larkin
Jesse C Durham
J. A. Waldeck
J. T. Bumgardner

H W Shuffett
Jno. Dongen
Jas H. Camston
W B. Brown
A. V. Enlow
Alx McHatten
H Legette
J. B Chapline
Wm Gardner
B. L. Kerr
Wm Knight Sr
M B Carcher
T A Smith
W R Wheat

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Munfordville Ky 10th Nov. 1863

Dr Sir- Please to present this petition to the Govr & try and get him to remit the fine. It is utterly impossible for Dick Murray to pay the fine- he is very poor with a family. and he is now a cripple and will be for life he accidentally shot himself a few days since

Yrs &c
Jno Donan

Jas A Dawson

send remission to me if you get it as the Sheriff wants it as soon as it comes

Hart Equity & Criminal Ct
vs
Richard Murray
To } Pet

Remit except fees & costs

Thos E Bramlette

Deadly Weapons
$100 —
16th Nov/63

I could get any number of names to the petition but you can explain to the Gov that the petitioners — live in Hammonsville the village where Dick lives. & by citizens here he had a fight with John Thornsberry about which he was fined for having a pistol — The Gov can see that John Thornsberry has signed the petition — in War times like these I think every man ought to be allowed to wear weapons in fact I believe the law is repealed

Donan