Petition

R. H. Campbell 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
BR10-380
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0898
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FTP Identifier
32203785

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Dates
1863-04
1864-05-11
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Citation

R. H. Campbell 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-0001-004-0898 (November 14, 2026).

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To his excellency Thos E Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky,

Your petitioners would respectfully recommend to your clemency Moses Weaver a Free man of Color who was indicted by a Grand jury of Woodford County for selling whiskey to slaves, and at the April Term 1863 of the Woodford Circuit Court fined in the sum of $12000 which sum they respectfully ask your honor to remit, or so much thereof as you can, within your Executive powers, though the act was proven against him by a slave we have every reason to believe the slave testified falsely and that Moses is innocent of the charge alledged and proven against him;

R. H. Campbell
D D Carpenter
Wm M. Morris
Daniel Boone
F A Davis
Thos C. Campbell
W. W. Furr
W,, T, Furr

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Woodford Cir Ct
vs
Moses Weaver
$120 —

Remit except fees & costs
Tho E Bramlette

Tipling
11th May/64