Petition

John Pitman to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-03-25

Date of Creation
March 25, 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
BR9-483 to BR9-484
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0620
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FTP Identifier
32203507

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Dates
1864-03
1864-03-25
1864-04-21
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John Pitman to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-03-25, 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-0001-004-0620 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky The undersigned Petitioner respectfully represents that at the March Term of the Laurel Circuit Court 1864 The Grand Jury for said County returned an Indictment against him for failing to keep up Tavern within his tavern house, being advised that such failure was a violation of law he at once entered his appearance and plead guilty to the charge and the law & facts being submitted to the Court, Judgment was rendered against him for the sum of seventy five dollars. He states that by such failure he had no intention whatever of violating or evading the laws of the county, in fact he did not know that such failure was a violation of law.

Wherefore he prays Your Excellency to remit said Judgment

John Pitman

Sworn to before me by John Pitman 25th March 1864

C B Davis Clk

We the undersigned citizens of Laurel County are well acquainted with John Pitman who is a law abdiding good citizen and one of those men who never intentionally evades or violates the Laws, we have every reason to believe his statements above are true and pray your excellency to remit said Judgment

C B Davis
Wm T. Moren
R. Boyd
Granville Pearl
Mark Hardin
R Baird
James Jackson
W P Evans
A, B. King

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Laurel Cir Ct
vs

Remit except fees & costs
Tho E Bramlette

John Pitman
$75 —
21st Apl/64