Petition

William T. Samuels, Samuel Haycraft, and James Stuart to Thomas E. Bramlette

1863-12

Date of Creation
December 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
BR9-97 to BR9-98
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0376
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32203263
People
Stuart, James
Chapeze, John
Hardin, Martin
Haycraft, Samuel
Hicks, Stephen
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
Samuels, William T.
Places
Hardin County, Kentucky
Stephensburg, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Hardin Circuit Court
Dates
1863-06
1863-12
1864-01-12
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Citation

William T. Samuels, Samuel Haycraft, and James Stuart to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1863-12, 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-0001-004-0376 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency the Governor of the State of Kentucky.

The undersigned Would ask your interposition in favor of Stephen Hicks who was fined at the DecemberJune Term 1863 of Hardin Circuit Court. said Hicks was fined Sixty Dollars for keeping a tipling House. The facts are these. Martin Hardin had a license to keep a Tavern at Stephensburg & let his Bar to Hicks & Hicks sold liquors therein & for this was fined. for Keeping Tipling House. Hicks sold in good faith & We would ask your excellency to remit said fine.
Dec 1863

Wm T. Samuels. Trustee Jury Fund Hardin Co.

Saml Haycraft clk
James Stuart Judge

Hicks sold the whiskey in a house belonging to Hardin but not connected by walls & was innocently involved

The Shrff. M. Hardin has paid me Eighteen Dollars, being that portion of the fine that was due me —

Jno. Chapeze Comlth's atty.

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Hardin Cir Ct
vs
Stephen Hicks
Petition
$60
Tipling

Remit except fees & costs

T, E, Bramlette

12th Jany/64
$60.

Hand to Auditor