Petition

R. S. Boyd et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-03-04

Date of Creation
March 4, 1865
Place of Creation
Livingston 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
BR12-399
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1551
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FTP Identifier
32204438

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Dates
1865-02
1865-03-04
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R. S. Boyd et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-03-04, 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-0001-004-1551 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thos E Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky

Sir the undersigned petitioners would respectfully represent to your excellency that at the February Term of the Livingston circuit court there was a Judgement against One John S Myrick for sixty dollars & costs for keeping a tipling house in said county now sir and we are informed that said Judgement was erroneaus from the fact that the name of John S Myrick was substituted for John W Myrick and farther at the time said house was kept the said John S Myrick was not even a citizen of the county the error consists in not having the proper person before the court the said John S Myrick being very ill at the time of said court was unable to defend now in view of the premises we ask your excellency to remit the fine the said Myricck is poor man and as such deserves to be aided this March 4th 1865

R S Boyd
J E Severn (assistant assessor) (Internal revenue
William, H, Adcock
Uriah Trimble
Alexander Stanford
Cass Stanford
Dr Thomas Linley
J P Stone
S., Skelton
J. L. Fleming
C Haynes

Joseph Newman
P, W, Crawford
Haydon Nelson
M T Dunn
J Q Alsobrook
Stephen [Kindall]
W M Gray
J. W. Cade
W Beverly
A Joiner

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Livingston Cir Ct
vs
John S. Myrick
$60
Keeping Tipling
House

Rejected