Petition

Charles Whaley et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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
BR15-121
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2265
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FTP Identifier
32205149

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Dates
1864
1865-08-15
--07-28
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Citation

Charles Whaley 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-0001-004-2265 (November 13, 2026).

[Page 1]

To His Excellency
Gov. Thos E Bramlette
Governor

The undersigned would respectfully represent, that R W Sharp of Bath County, kept a grocery in the town of Bethel in said County, and that he had no license to retail spirituous liquors, but that some Federal Soldiers came to his grocery in the year 1864 & demanded whisky. He told them he could not sell by the drink, and they, by threats of violence, forced him to sell in that way. And that an enemy of his presented him to the Grand jury of the County, which indicted him and the Court fined him Seventyfive dollars. Mr Sharp is a poor man & now labors on a farm to support his little family. Therefore your petitioners would humbly pray your Excellency to remit said fine, & thus relieve one who is unable to pay.

Chas Whaley
T Bumfield
James [MCcue]
Oliver Lander
Geo Lane

I am informed that the above petition is true

J. S. Rainey
C P Van Pelt
Jas,, Caldwell
A M Jones
D, S, Lockridge
D M Richart
Samuel Rogers
James Smothers
J R Wren
John B Durham
T A Simpson
R G Tharpe

[Page 2] Bath Cir Ct
vs
R. W. Sharp
$75,
Tipling
15 Aug/65

Sent for fee 28 July