Correspondence

W. E. Reese and John Hutchcraft to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-05-30

Date of Creation
May 30, 1864
Place of Creation
Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
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
BR10-311
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0852
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32203739

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Dates
1864-05-30
1864-05
1864-07-12
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W. E. Reese and John Hutchcraft to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-05-30, 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-0001-004-0852 (November 14, 2026).

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Winchester Ky May 30th 1864
Governor Bramlette
Dear Sir

At the last Term, May 1864, of the Clark Circuit Court the undersigned were fined $40- each for retailing spirituous liquors without license. The undersigned keep a large grocery in Winchester & have license to sell liquor as a Grocer or merchant. By neglect their license expired & in the meantime before it was renewed they sold to two persons & were presented & of course fined They renewed their license. They state it as entirely true that they do not keep a drinking house. They keep liquors on hand & good at that, which they sell by the quantity & occassionaly by the quart under their license. They appeal to all who know them for the character of their

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House & their personal character They feel that they have not violated any law in its spirit

W. E. Reese
Jn Hutchraft

I know Hutchraft & Reese well. They are first rate,highgentlemen & [pruss] an extensive grocery establishment in Winchester & do not keep a house to sell liquor by the small The statements of their petition I believe to be true. There is an [emensural] desire that they be released from the fine. It is, I, know a case of merit.

Jn. B. Huston

I know Hutchraft & Rees well. They are gentlemen of fine character, and the business of their house is [correctly] stated by Genl Huston. Mr Rees is the active partner, Hutchcraft being an invalid. Rees is remarkable for his good deportment & I feel sure that his failure to renew his license was solely the result of oversight & to time.

A. H. Buckner

Clark Cir Ct
vs
Hutchcraft &
W E Reese
Tipling
$40. each
Remit
12th July/64