Michael Brannon to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-08-07
- Date of Creation
- August 7, 1865
- Place of Creation
- Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- 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
- BR14-389 to BR14-390
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-2159
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32205043
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Citation
Michael Brannon to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-08-07, 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-0001-004-2159 (December 11, 2025).
To His Excellency Hon Tho E Bramlette Gov of Kentucky
The undersigned Michael Brannon states that at the last July term of the Bourbon Circuit Court he was fined $50 upon an indictment for assault and carrying concealed weapons. He states that the assault was made in an unfortunate moment of intoxication which he deeply regrets and will edeavor to avoid the repetition of any thing of the sort in the future. He is a very poor man and unable to pay the fine. He pledges himself to deport himself as a quiet orderly citizen as he has always heretofore ^done^ with the single exception above referred to and prays that the fine may be remitted
Michael ^his X mark^ Brannon
The undersigned are aquainted with the petitioner Michael Brannon and from our Knowlege of his general good conduct cheerfully concur in the petition for the remission of the fine against him
J A Prall
A, S, Thomson
Allen Bashford
R J. Brown
Tho P. Smith
Wm M. Samuel
Paris Ky
W J Samuels Esq
Dear friend
I send Enclosed a petition which I would to obliged to you to present I send also the asst sectys fee
Yours truly
H Prall
Bourbon Cir Ct
vs
H. Brannon
$50.
Assault &c
remitted