Petition

Henry Kearns to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-03-09

Date of Creation
March 9, 1865
Place of Creation
Lexington, Fayette 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
BR12-411 and BR12-411A
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1561
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FTP Identifier
32204448

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Dates
1865-03-09
1863-06-25
1865-03-15
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Henry Kearns to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-03-09, 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-0001-004-1561 (November 14, 2026).

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Lexington March 9th 1865
To His excellency
Gov Thos. E Bramlette

Your Petitioner Henry Kearns desires to present to your excellency that on the 25th of June 1863 he was electionerring for for Thos E Bramlette & while so engaged was caled a damned abolitionest & a damned liar by a man named Jas Shannon, said Shannon said he could & would whip your petitioner, whereupon your petitioner struck him & gave him a good thrashing, for which I was fined by Judge Goodloe of the city court of Lexington $60 & cost, your petioner petitioner states that he has paid the cost but feels unable to pay the fine & asks that your excellency remit the said fine, for the reason that your petitioner feels that in doing as he did, he only did what any other citizen would have done under similar circumstances, that is being insulted on acct of his Political Preferences, & for your excellency & as in duty bound your petitioner will ever pray

Henry Kearns

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public in & for the county of Fayette state of Ky, Henry Kernes & after being duly sworn states that the facts set forth in this Petition to His excellency Gov Bramlete are true in all respts

J K Edwards
Notary Public Fayette co

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[Lexington] City Ct
vs
[Henry] Kearns
$60.
Remitted
15th Mch/65