Petition

Isham T. Ladd to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-09-16

Date of Creation
September 16, 1864
Place of Creation
Trimble County, Kentucky
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
BR11-352
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1205
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FTP Identifier
32204092

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Dates
1864-05
1864-09-16
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Isham T. Ladd to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-09-16, 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-0001-004-1205 (November 14, 2026).

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To the Honorable Thos E. Bramlette
Governor of, the commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner Isham T. Ladd of Trimble county Ky would respectfully represent that at the May term of the Trimble Circuit court he was fined the sum of Twenty Dollars for betting on a game of pitching Dollars in the commons of Bedford,

He says he was not aware that it would amount to a fine to bet on the result of such a game, and further the amount bet was a small sum, and that publickly made He says he is not in the habit of betting, and prays your honor to remit Said fine, if consistent with your clemency & will ever pray &c &c

Isham T. Ladd

Sept 16. 1864,

We the undersigned citizens & neighbors of the above petition join him in his prayer &c, &c

W. Stratton
Jacob Downs
J. B. Pierce
T.B. gatewood

S. Gatewood
S. W. Burnett
[J R hunt]
T. B. Hunt

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F A Adams
L, G Peek
Whitfield Singer
J. W. Stewart
Stephen S Yeager
G. W. Arington
T M McCarty
R C Yeager
Fleming Yeager
A J Bartlett
Geo W Perkinson
Joseph Straton
James Cimlen
John G [Chalfort]
J. T. Shepherd
B M Hunter