Petition

B. Grinsted et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1863-11-25

Date of Creation
November 25, 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
BR8-468
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0295
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32203182

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Dates
1863-08
1863-11-25
1863-12-21
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B. Grinsted et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1863-11-25, 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-0001-004-0295 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency
The Governor of Ky

Your petitioners who are all Loyal citizens of, Kentucky and Warren County would respectfully represent to your Excellency that James Brown of This County was fined the Sum of Seventy five Dollars at the last August term of the Equity and criminal court for warren county for tipling or retailing Spiritous liquors we know Mr Brown is not in the true Sense of the term a tipler of Spirious liquers but was on this ocasion Induced to get a Jug of Whiskey and to carry it to a Sale by Some friends —

We further State Mr Brown to be a civil Steedy and industrious man of Good Morral Character but verry poor and has a wife and Seven children dependant on him for Suport. Therfor we pray your interposition
Novr 25" 1863 —

B,, Grinsted
Leonard Harris
E. Mc Grinsted
Richard,, H,, Caplinger
H Y Gardner
Thomas, S, Elrod
B, C, Grider

H Grider
P W Potter
Ivy Gardner
Wm M Arnold

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Warren Equity & Crim Court

I cannot understand could be assessed The amt does not accord with any law — upon the Subject of tippling. —

T, E. B

vs

This fine according to law should have been $20 — it is in excess all above that sum. Remit all except fees & costs which will reduce the penalty to the legal amount or nearly so.

Tho E Bramlette

James Brown
Tipling $20 —
21st Dec/63