Robert P. Steenbergen et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-10-11
- Date of Creation
- October 11, 1864
- Place of Creation
- Washington 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
- BR11-393 to BR11-394
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1232
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204119
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Citation
Robert P. Steenbergen et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-10-11, 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-0001-004-1232 (November 15, 2026).
To his Excellency the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Washington County Solicit
Robert P Steenbergen being duly sworn deposes and says that there is a judgment against him ^for $45.00^ and also a judgment against Benjamin F. Steenbergen ^for $40.00^ in the Washington Circuit Court on an indictment for selling whiskey to a slave,. that said whiskey was legally and properly sold as said Steenbergen believed, said slave having what purported to be an order from his master but which order the owner of the slave denied giving on the trial that the prosecution was prompted by a bad state of feeling existing in the neighborhood on the part of those who carried on the same which arose from some very angry litigation that had been conducted in the shape of two slander suits & a prosecution for enfanticide &c with said Steenbergens on one side and the persons who conducted said prosecution against them for selling whiskey &c on the other. —
Wherefore he would respectfully ask that said fines be remitted
R P Steenbergen
Sworn to before me by Robert P. Steenbergen on this
John. McIntire P. J. W. C. C
The undersigned would respectfully represent to your Excellency that they are acquainted with Robert P Steenbergen the affiant and that they believe him
to be a man of truth and veracity and hereby petition a remittance of said fine
R S Peters —
W, E, Riley
J. P. Barbour
John McIntire
Washington Cir Ct
vs
B. F. & R. P. steenbergen
$45 —
$40 —
Remitted