Willis D. Lee to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-01-23
- Date of Creation
- January 23, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Mason 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
- BR12-221 to BR12-222
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1426
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204313
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Citation
Willis D. Lee to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-01-23, 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-0001-004-1426 (November 12, 2026).
To the Hon Thomas E Bramlette Governor of Kentucky
The petition of Willis D Lee who states that he is a hotel keeper and a resident of Dover Mason County Ky — his age is 77 years and for 28 years of his life last past he has kept a public hotel in the state of Kentucky, and during all that time he has never intentionally violated the law, and has always to the best of his knowledge been particular in his observance of all that the law required of him in keeping a public house, and retailing spirituous liquors — At the last
At the time said offense was alledged against him he was regularly licensed to retail spiritous liquors and many young men did buy liquor at his bar, but in every instance in which he sold to them, their appearance indicated that they were men of matureage and he at the time beleved they were, and he has in no instance sold liquor to minors knowingly unless by the consent of their parents or gaurdians
If he committed any offense against the law he did so ignorantly, and the therefore thinks that the fine inflicted by the court against him is a hardship, that the Governor ought to relieve him from and he therefore most respectfully asks that said fine be remitted
Willis D, Lee
State of Kentucky Mason County
Sworn to and subscribed by Willis D Lee before me a justice of the peace
for Mason County this
Tho A Curran J P M C
To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky
The undersigned citizens of Dover Mason County Ky and vicinity respectfully join with the above named Willis D Lee in his petition to your Excellency to have the fine remitted which was imposed upon him by the Mason Circuit Court at its
Tho A Curran
J, C, Mitchell
Wm Jennings
P S Anderson
Chas J Fox
Saml Vears
Jas. W Masterson
P N Jennings
John F Tabb
F W Loving
James Drake
A. F, Dobyns
H Van Buskirk
L C Anderson
Wm C Rice
B. H Moore
C S Blades
Tho A Reesse [Sr]
Ethan A Anderson
Geo W. Creighbaum
G H Hanna
D Tabb
C Hiles
Alex. A. Gibbens
H. G. May
John T Mackey
Simeon. W. Osborne.
{Revenue Stamp}W D L
Mason Cir Ct
vs
W. D. Lee
W D Lee
$50
Remit