Petition

John D. Taylor et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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
BR10-85 to BR10-86
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0710
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FTP Identifier
32203597

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Dates
1863-10
1864-04-26
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John D. Taylor 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-0001-004-0710 (November 15, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky —

Your Petitioner Milton Taylor a Citizen of Mason County, respectfully states, that at the October Term of the Mason Circuit Court, he was fined the sum of one Hundred and Thirty Five Dollars for permitting a disorderly House to be kept on his Farm near the City of Maysville. The plea of not guilty on his part was not a mere formal one, but was a sincere and honest declaration of want of all knowledge or cognizance by him that any such house was kept on his Farm. The House said to be so used was over a quarter of a mile distant from his residence, and the evidence of the [...]rinter, necessary to his conviction altogether circumstancial. The house was rented to tenants, and the disorder if any, was by those over whom he had no controul whatever — He respectfully prays you to remit the fine, esteeming that its infliction is unjust.

The undersigned Citizens of Mason County concur in the prayer of the above petion —
Jno D Taylor

Thos K Ball
M T Ball
C B Hill Juryman
H Bassett Teller Bank of Kentucky

Thos J. Throop
Henry S Jefferson s. m. c
W W Baldwin

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G Graham
M R Burgess & Son
David M. Runyon

Mason Cir Ct.
vs

Remit except fees & costs
Tho. E Bramlette

Milton Taylor
26th Apl/64
$135 —