Petition

R. T. F. Abbett et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Gallatin 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
BR12-424 to BR12-425
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1570
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32204457

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Dates
1865-03
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Citation

R. T. F. Abbett et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 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-0001-004-1570 (November 15, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thos E Bramlette
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Walter Brown Jr says that at the March term of Gallatin Circuit Court 1865 the Grand Jury of said County returned into court three (3) Several Indictments against him for unlawfully Gaming on the premises of Wm Landram and in the Court House on two (2) occasions your Petioner says it is true that he played for a small sum on the premises of Landram and did play twice in the court House in like manner with some Young Officers (while Soldiers were Stationed there) for a small Sum of Money now your petitioner says he is but a Boy of 18 years of age and has no Seperate Estate and is illy able to fee Lawyers to defend him and he lives in hopes his father will not find it out and as he is unable to pay the fulll fines and costs now he prays your Excellency to pardon and remit the same said indictments being numbered from one to the three and he will be ever grateful and thankful to toyour Excellency for Sheilding him from one Mr Scott who is theperhaps the Keenest Scouter of misdemeanors in the state and who appears

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to take delight in Prosecuting such cases

Respectfully your Obedient
and Humble Servt

Gallatin Cir Ct
vs
Walter Brown Jr

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We the subscribers heartily Join in the prayer of the Petiioner and respectfully request that his fines be remitted and pardoned in advance as it can do no good and probably much harm to fine so young an Individual and one of Respectable Parents

Names
R, T, F, Abbett
R. R. Russell
James, S,, McHatton
S,, J,, Goins
H. J. Abbett Jr.
J. M.. Vanier,
J W Roberts
J, Critt, Furnish
L Graves
Jno. D. Pulliam
J J Brown
Mount. Marsh
E. C. Peak
J. Tom Ritchey D S G C
Philip Edmonds D S C
E. Samuel
James Furnish
William Bales

Names
John. V. Linzy
W. M. Simpson

J J Landram. He Says he will not do so any more —

John T Robinson Jr,
H. Baldwin
Aaron Gregg
Samuel. W. Spencer
P. H. White
V. W. Keene
Jacob carnes
W H. Landram
W, S, Allen
W. H. Keene