Petition

W. H. Vansant 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
BR15-211
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2323
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FTP Identifier
32205207

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Dates
1865-07-24
1865-09-22
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Citation

W. H. Vansant 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-0001-004-2323 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that aton the 24th day of July 1865 there was a fine imposed upon Lewis sterling by Judge Bagby Judge of the Police court of Ashland Boyd County Ky, that the charges against Sterling was breach of the peace, the circumstances under which it was committed was as follows, Sterling was in his house quietly demeaning himself and [three] men came in to his house and abused him and provoked him to acts in defence of himself he saw that he was overpowered by numbers and having a hatchet he threw it at them and saved himself from harm No one was struck by the hatchet, Sterling is a pooreman with a family and we pray your excellency to remitt said fine

W H Vansant
Edw Courtney

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Wam timbar
H. B. Brodess C Judge
Henry Shabne
F. G. Merryman
G. W. Wollas
Cary Abner
J Hiskell Jr
H. Riggs
C P Davenport
Isac Gralsbery 14 Ky V. V. I.
James M Stephens
Thos D. Eldridge
W. H. Bates
[Grant] Barber
Samuel B Bates
Valentine Lahmin
Edward I Roberts (late) Adjt 14 Ky
J T Burditt
Jospeh R. Cheap
John. E. Felix
C Erick
W F Blankenship

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Ashland Police Ct
vs
Remit
Lewis Sterling
$20,
Breach Peace
22d Sept/65