Petition

P. P. Ballard et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-03-21

Date of Creation
March 21, 1865
Place of Creation
Richmond, Madison 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
BR13-61 to BR13-62
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1613
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32204500

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Dates
1865-03-21
1863-09
1865-03
1865-04-06
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P. P. Ballard et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-03-21, 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-0001-004-1613 (November 14, 2026).

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Richmond Ky
March 21st 1865
To His Excellency
Governor Bramlette

Your Petitioners would respectfully represent, that Mrs. Judy. Webster. at the September term of the Madison Circuit Court. 1863. was indicted for selling liquor to Minors, and Judgment for Fifty Dollars obtained at the March term of said Court 1865 The selling was done under the following circumstances. The regular bar keeper was absent temporarily & his place supplied by some one ignorant of the law. who gave the liquor to a minor. It also happened during a dance or ball at the "Webster House" Mrs Webster is a Lady of estimable character & moreover knows how to keep a "Hotel" Inasmuch as Mrs. Webster keeps an orderly and well regulated Hotel & the selling was done without her knowledge & permission & by the person who sold in entire ignorance of the law & consequently without any disposition to violate or evade the same Your petitioners would respectfully but urgently request that your Excellency remit so much of the fine as is within your power.

P P Ballard Dept Pro Mar
8th Dis Ky.

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Willard Davis
Comr. Int. Rev. 5 Dist Ky
R H Johnson U S Assr.
R. Herndon.
James H. Embry
E J Broaddus

J M Shackelford Clker
Madison Circuit Court
G S Roberts
C C Ball
J. W. Caperton
S Parrish Sheriff Madison Co

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Madison Cir Ct
vs
Mrs M Webster
$50 —

Remitted
6th Apl 1865