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Petition

William Knostman et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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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: BR9-125 to BR9-126
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-004-0396
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FTP Identifier: 32203283

Mentioned in this document

People: Borders, Allen P.; Scott, Andrew; Bellow, Asa; McConnell, Charles Lewis; Childs, H. M.; Preston, Hiram; Poage, Hugh A.; Jones, James D.; Kincaid, James D.; Faulconer, James; Ford, James R.; Riely, James W.; Bowling, Jasper; Wellman, Jeremiah; Eastham, John H.; Harris, Kelsey N.; Ewing, L. J.; Bramlette, Thomas Elliott; Foster, William A.; Campbell, William; Knostman, William; Pugh, William
Places: Boyd County, Kentucky
Organizations: Boyd Circuit Court; Commonwealth of Kentucky
Dates: 1863-11; 1864-01-30

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William Knostman 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-0001-004-0396 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thomas, E, Bramlette Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky We the undersigned petitioners & Citizens of Boyd County Respectly Salicit The Remmitences of the fines agst Doctor Wm Pugh who was fined at the last November term of the Boyd Circuit Court sixty dollars for keeping a tippling House Doctor W^m Pugh is a Drugess in our town, and being under the impression as the Keeper of a Drug Store he ^had^ the law full right to sell whisky when most parties repersented it was for a medical purpose and he did not violate the law willfuly but only through ingnarance He being an Englishman and not understanding the law^s of our state Doctor Pugh is a good Citizen and useful man in our Community and ^we^ pray and ask ^you^ to Release him of the fine aforesaid

William Knostman

Names

W, A, Foster
H M Childs
over

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H A Poage
C L, M,,Connell
Jas R Ford
Asa Bellow
J. D. Kincaid
L J Ewing
J. Wellman
H: Preston
A P Borders
Wm Campbell
J H Eastham s. b. c

James Faulconer
K. N. Harris

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Boyd Cir Ct
vs
D^r W^m Pugh
$60—
Tipling

Remit except fees & costs

Tho E Bramlette

230^th Jany/64