Petition

Francis E. Skidmore to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-01-23

Date of Creation
January 23, 1865
Place of Creation
Bedford, 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
BR12-225 to BR12-226
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1428
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FTP Identifier
32204315

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Dates
1865-01-23
1863-10
1865-02-21
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Francis E. Skidmore 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-0001-004-1428 (November 14, 2026).

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Bedford Trimble Co
Kentucky Jany 23-1865,
To His Excellency Thos E, Bramlett Governor of Kentuck

your Petitioner would respectfully represent that he was fined in three sCases at the October term of the circuit court for Trimble County 1863, fifty Dollars each for Selling liquor to Minors, your Excellency Saw proper in great clemency to respite Said fines twelve Months from that time,

He now humbly asks your Excellency in consequence of his not being aware that he was doing wrong thinking the said Minors were of proper age, and further being a poor man, with a family to support and having had to feed a great many Soldiers & their Horses without any Compensation prays your Excellency to remit Said fine & in duty bound will ever pray &C &C

Francis E. Skidmore

We the undersigned petitioners citizens of Trimble county would respectfully represent that the above

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petitions Statements are true and Join him in his prayre &C &C

Silas Gatewood
William Drake
J, B, Mount
James Stanley
Wm O Stanly
J H McCarty
J. Y. Newkirk
Levi M Perkinson
L, G, Peck
W. P. Maddox
A. J. Harmon
A. J. Wright
Jas. B. Cook
John, W, Stewart
R T Hall
R. Bell
J. P. Strother
E M Garriott

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Trimble Cir Ct
vs
F. E. Skidmore
3 judgts
$50. each

Remit

21st Feby/65
Sent for fee