Petition

W. H. Watson to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Blandville, Ballard 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
BR14-245 to BR14-246
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2058
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32204943

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Dates
1865-07
1865-06
1865-07
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Citation

W. H. Watson 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-0001-004-2058 (November 15, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thomas E. Bramlett governor of Kentucky Your Petitioner W. H. Watson will Respectfully Represent that on the day of July 1865 a warrant was issued by [C. F. Cate] Presiding Judge of the Ballard County Court, against the Petitioner for Keeping a tipling house in the Town of Blandville from the [...] of June 1865 to the [...] day of July 1865 and that upon the trial of the cause it was assumed that your Petitioner had Sold ardent Spirits by the drink three times within the Period charged in the warrant Whereupon your Petitioner was fined Sixty Dollars & costs of suit Now your Petitioner will Say that he Does not intend to violate the Law and fully believed he had Licens to Keep a coffee house according to Law, He having gone into copartnership with a man by the name of Bryant, a few days before in the coffee house [bus], and believing they Procurred the Licens jointly, your Petitioner bought and Briants inst. in the house and Sold ardent spirits at Least three times, when, he found that no licens had been granted to him as a copartner of Briant but that your Petitioners name alone was subject to the Bond as soon as you Petitioner found this fact at once closed his house & Procuring a Proper Licens, Now in consideration of the of the premises

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your Petitioner will Respectfully ask your Excellency to; remit the fine imposed Promising in the future to obey all the Laws of the Commonwealth, as he has ever done Except in the above instance, and he believs your Executive Clemency will not be misplaced Respectfully

W. H. Watson

We the undersigned citizens of Blandville and Ballard County concur in the Statement in the above Petition & Join [...] ^Wm Watson^ in his Pray, to be Released from the fine imposed for Keeping a Tipling House

R. J. Ligon
J, R, Yarbrough
James L. [Hinds]
W. C. Pain
G W Taylor
W. Garnett
W. W. Pucket
S L Powell
T P Linthicum
H C Roberts
Smith Garrett
John. Woolfollk.
J B Hill
A J. Davis
J, A, Carpender
H. Unsell

D,, L. Troutman
William Davis
P. H. Tiraal
J Hamiliton
D, A, Hamilton
C S. Cobbs
H. G. Black
A Bodkin
J. L. Smedley
James Avinesbourg
P,, H. Bondurant
H. P. Hutton
R T Crouch
A. Hall
W, A, Jett
J. M. Blankes
W L. Watson
D Mosby

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C, C, Terrell
W. S. Smith
G W Utterback
G T Armestr^ong^
J B Gentry
G M Hawk
J H Crice
Fred Crice
W. B. Middleton
R Broms
S. H. Wilson
E White
G W Sulivan
William P Stovall
G. A. Reeves
Richard George
W H George
R, H. Simpkins
W. C. Reily
Thomas Vallendingham
J. S. Cleaves
A W Shelly
G, F, Nichols
G M Sulivan
J. M. Carneal
J. H. Eddy
H H Samuels
T. C. Ray
G A Flood
Eli Evans
J. J. Mesham

H. L. Brown
L. Tally
M. T. Tally
E H Mariel
J. H. M. Billington
Richard A middleton
W. J. Odoniley
J S Haule
H H McChristian
Josiah Smallman
Daniel Unsel
P. T. Russell
Wm Russell
W. M. Olive
D. M. Coil
M. T. Shellon
W. J. Emler
Joseph Evans
J. H. Crouch
G J Briant
H Srifinal
R N Purdy
L Vaughn
C Elliott
Paul W Terrell
J C Sulivan
John Rutter
H C Samuels
Richard Mercer
George, W, Stoval

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F, J, Coffee
E Uncell
P C Puckett
F. W. Puckett
T [Richards]
John G. Eliston
T, J, George
E F Watson
W. W. Mosby
J. W. Lynn
Thos. H. [...]
Wm Thomas
L. C. Calhoon
J. N. Vaughn
A, J, Persell
A J Warden
S E Underwood
James McCaully
W N Morgan
Asa Richardson
J. W. Hutchon
G A Boston
S. W. Owens
A. T. Edgin
H L Brown
P, M, Hotterman
Wm M Martin
W L Watson
P A Jones
Lieut H Holley
E T Hamilton

W. M. Anderson
W. P. Knox
G W Stearsman
W F Stearsman
C, [...]
W. H. Jones
Wm Hughs
C A Bingham
D J Watson
W S Watson
Aron Mcdanil
Wm Hall
F. Tharp
W. J. Apperson
F Stone
Alan Heders
M A Tharp
W S Jentry
Frelin Tharp
J. T. Davis
J P Pallock
Daniel Childress
T N Rolett
John W. Massee
J. N Cain
J T Johnson