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Petition

Owen Conway to Thomas E. Bramlette

1863-12-14

Document details

Date of Creation: December 14, 1863
Place of Creation: Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky
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: BR9-101 to BR9-102
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-0378
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FTP Identifier: 32203265

Mentioned in this document

People: Blair, Alexander Wallace; Edwards, Benjamin F.; West, Elijah; Munger, Fitch; Piper, James Ray; McMillan, John F.; Campbell, John W.; Clay, John W.; Chevis, John. M.; Conway, Owen; Evans, Robert S.; Bramlette, Thomas Elliott; Dinsmore, William Mathers; Ross, William P.; Spencer, William; Howard, William W.; [Untitled]
Places: Carlisle, Kentucky; Kentucky
Organizations: Nicholas Circuit Court
Dates: 1863-12-14; 1861-09; --03; 1864-01-12

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Owen Conway to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1863-12-14, 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-0001-004-0378 (November 12, 2026).

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Carlisle Kentucky
December 14^th 1863
To his Excelancy
Thos E. Bramlett
Governor of Ky

Your Petitioner Owen Conway would respectfully represent to your Excelency that at the September Term 1861, of the Nicholas Circuit Court, through the influence of some personal enemy, he was Indicted for ~~[...]~~ giving a drink of whiskey to a Slave, and that at the March Term previous he was Indicted for Keeping a tipling house. that he was fined $50. in the one & $60, in the other case, that in each case the Indictments were the work of personal enemies, he would further state that he had the Slave employed when he gave him the whiskey and that the owner of said Slave never complained about it but will join in this Petition to have the fine remitted; and he further states that if he Violated any Law in Keeping a tipling house he was entirely unconscious of it, he would represent to your Excelency that he is a very poor man that he has a large and helpless family, and that if you will remit the foregoing fines you will confer a favor on an humble fellow citizen and save his wife and little ones from distress,

Owen Conway

As the owner of the Slave above refered to I hope your Excelency will remit the fine,

Benj. F. Edwards

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We the undersigned citizens of Nicholas County join in this prayer in requesting your Excelency to remit the foregoing fines, M^r C. is a poor man, and It will be an act of charity to remit them,

A. W. Blair S,r, C
John Clay L s. N C
W. W. Howard Depty Clerk Nicholas Cir. Court
W. P. Ross
[~~Geo [...] Clay~~]
R S Evans Co. atty.
Fitch Munger
Elijah West D J N C C
William Dinsmore
John F McMillan
William Spencer
John. M. Chevis
J. R. Piper

John. W. Campbell

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Nicholas Cir Ct

Remit the fine for giving to slave $50 except fees & costs

Tho E Bramlette

Owen Conway
$50 & $60
Tipling
12^th Jany/ 64