Petition

Thomas Douglass to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-08-26

Date of Creation
August 26, 1865
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
BR15-182 to BR15-183
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2303
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FTP Identifier
32205187

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Dates
1860
1865-08-26
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Thomas Douglass to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-08-26, 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-0001-004-2303 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Governor of Ky.

Your petitioner Thomas Douglass would respectfully present that in 1860 he was indicted in the Lincoln Circuit Court for Carrying Concealed deadly weopens — Judgment was rendered against him for $50. & Costs. he knew nothing of the Judgment being rendered until recently the Copias pro fine was issued directed to Garrard County which he replevined — he dont remember that he Carried the weopen & in fact knows nothing about the matter except that the Judgment is against him — he states that he is a poor man & hopes your Excellency will release him from said fine. he is not in a habit of Carrying deadly weopens, or violating law in any particular.

Thomas Douglass

Sworn to before m by Thomas Douglas, this Augt 26" 1865

B M Burdett N. P.

We the undersigned Concur in the Statements of the above petition that the petitioner is an Orderly Man in Moderate circumstances & hope your Excellency will remit the fine

R. Carson Clk. L, C, C
John C Cooper
T, A, Hill
W S Bailey j L C C
J. W. Alcorn
S S McRoberts Clk, C, C,
Jas. A Anderson
M. H. Owsley.
Fon T Fox

M. L. Rice
R B. Pittman
Wm O. Bradley
N Sandifer
W, H, Wherritt
G W Dunlap
W. D. Hopper
B M Burdett
H. T. Harris
P. Spragens
J, R, Alford
W J Lusk

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Lincoln Cir Ct
vs
Thos Douglass
$50.
Concealed Weapons
Remit
sent for fee
31 Aug