Petition

John D. Wakes and S. W. Burton et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-05-02

Date of Creation
May 2, 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
BR10-372
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0893
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Dates
1863-11
1864-05-02
1864-06-23
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John D. Wakes and S. W. Burton et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-05-02, 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-0001-004-0893 (November 14, 2026).

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We the undersigned petitioners would respectfully represent to hisyour excellency Governor Bramlette, that at the Novr Term 1863 of the Owen Circuit Court a verdict was rendered against them for the sum of twenty dollars each and twenty seven dollars & 45 cents costs — that they are young men, and imprudently engaged in a game at cards, that they were not in the habit of gaming are poor men, one of them us having a family to support, and the other very low and feble, with ill health — We ask his excellency to remit that part of the fine to which the Commonwealth is entitled —

John A. Wakes & S W Burton

We the neighbors of the above petitioners would represent that the above statements we believe to be true, that the young men are quiet & worthy young men & the case once in which executive clemency could be

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very properly used — we unite with the petitioners and ask that the fine be remitted as in duty bound we ever pray &c —

May 2nd 1864 —
P. H. Smith
G. R. Lee
Ben F. Sidebottom
W H Sandford Clk of Owen Circuit Court
John A Moore D. C. of Owen County
George L. Ford
Chas W McFarland
Granvil L Liewis
Thomas S Yorkes
O,, Hughes
G. W. White
Jas S. Branham
A. Price
E. White
John Bartlett
Samuel Rogers
J. W. Ireland
S. H. Wilson
Solamon Wainscott
H B Glays

Owen Cir Ct
vs
John A Wakes
&
H. Burton
$20 — each

Remit except fees & costs
Tho E Bramlette
23rd June/64