F. Riddell et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
- Document Genre
- Petition
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- 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
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- BR15-251
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-2348
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Citation
F. Riddell 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-0001-004-2348 (November 14, 2026).
Thomas J & James A Akin
To his excellency Thomas E Bramlett
Govenor of Kentucky
Your petitioners respectfully represent to your Excellency that on the [...] day of Selling Keeping a tipling house in Boone County The defendants were brought to trial at the
Your petitioners State that the offence for which Said Akins were indicted was commited by them as follows to wit by selling a small quantity of Blackbery Cordial made by themselves. That at the time the cordial was sold they believed that the right to sell it and that there was no law against it And that So Soon as they found that it was a violation of the law they quit it The Akins are each poor men having no surplus meas, but
are compelled to earn their living for themselves, & families by their own personal labor, Your Petitioners believe it would be a great hardship for the ^said^ Akins to be forced to pay said judgment, under the circumstances and they respectfully present this case as one suitable fo the interposition of executive clemency by the remission of the fine before referrd to
F Riddell
R. C. Green
Conty atty
Robt F Coleman
County Judge I believe the state of facts are true and join in the prayer
Lewis W. Webb County Clerk
James Calvert
M. B. Greene
Boone Cir Ct
vs
Thos J & J A Akin
$60,
Tipling
Remitted
Sent for fee