William H. Roberts to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-01-08
- Date of Creation
- January 8, 1864
- 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
- BR9-140
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-0406
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32203293
Citation
William H. Roberts to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-01-08, 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-0001-004-0406 (November 12, 2026).
To his Excellency Thos E Bramlette Governor of Ky
The undersigned would Respectfully Represent to your honor that he was attached as a witness for the Green circuit court and when court came on he was sick and unable to attend court and was informed by the party who had him summoned he could do without him as he had a witness who [...] the same fact sometime afterwards ^he had^ a notice was served on him that issued from said court in consequence ^of his^ My nonattendance I went to see Greensburg and employed W B Allen Esqr ^to attend^ to it he wrote an answer for Me and promised to notify Me if there was anything More necessary I heard nothing from it untill and execution was issued for $100 placed in the hands of John W Barrett Deputy sherriff for Barren county The undersigned has been advised that it is a case that Requires Executive interference The facts as I have stated them will be sustained in part ^by^ some affedavits that will accompany this petition if you think this petition Reasonable and proper your petitioner hopes that you will Remit a portion of it or the whole of it if you have the power for which he will ever pray &c
William H. Roberts