Petition

John Custar to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-07-21

Date of Creation
July 21, 1865
Place of Creation
Pulaski 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
BR14-310
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2102
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32204987

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Dates
1865-07-21
1865-07
1865-09-04
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John Custar to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-07-21, 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-0001-004-2102 (November 15, 2026).

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Somerset Kentucky
July 21st 1865
To his Excelency
Thomas E. Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner would respectfully represent to your Exilency That judgment was Confessed by him ^John Custar^ at the July Term 1865 of the Pulaski Circuit Court for $100,. for Keeping a Tipling House Your petitioner States that he ^said John Custar^ was an authorized army Sutler at Point Burnside and paid regular Army License The business was Carried in exclusive by within the limits of the Camp And your petitioner paid the regular taxes as sutler, and supposed that he was doing nothing but what was right and proper.

Under the Circumstances he prays you Exelency to remit the fine.

Resptly John Custar

We Concur in the Statements and prayer of the foregoing petition.

Jno. S. VanWinkle
W McKee Fox
W. B. Moore
H. H. Pettus
W. D. Carpenter.
(over)

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J. B. Love
G, W, Richardson
D. F. Bush

Pulaski Cir Ct
vs
John Custar $100.
Watson Ballew $100
Tipling
Temple Haynes & David L Clark $100,
Breach Peace
Remitted
4 Sept/65