Correspondence

A. S. Thomson to Thomas E. Bramlette

1864-12-19

Date of Creation
December 19, 1864
Place of Creation
Paris, Bourbon 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
BR12-120
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1366
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32204253
People
Thomson, Addison S.
Tate, Columbus
Brent, John Chambers
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
Harnard, [unknown]
Places
Paris, Kentucky
Organizations
Bourbon Circuit Court
Dates
1864-12-19
1864-12-12
1861
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Citation

A. S. Thomson to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-12-19, 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-0001-004-1366 (November 12, 2026).

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Paris Ky Decr 19th 1864
Govr Tho E. Bramlet

Dr Sir I have a favour for a Friend to to ask of you on the 12th of this Month I sent by the bearer Dr Harnard a petition to you signed by a no of persons asking the releas of a Fine in the Circuit Court against one Columbus Tate he was on a bond for the forthcoming of Negro at the Court in 1861 when court was in cession Mr Tate brought the Negro in and gave him up to the Sheriff in open Court when the cas was Continued Mr Tate had gone home in Good Faith and the Sheriff let the Negro as he stated in the petion as Sheriff Dr Haranard had is Pocket robed which contained the petition as he will state to you If you can not releas Mr Tate of the fine [...]he do only ask the fine and not the Fees if not the release he wants a Respite to give him Tim to have the petien signed as the Sheriff is preping him he is a Stead industrious Man and has a large Family and is hard to Live but honest

Your Friend & voter
A. S. Thomson

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To His Excelency Gov Bramlette

The writer of the within is the sheriff elect of this county & is reliable

Jno C. Brent