Petition

Lewis Colbert 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
BR16-77 to BR16-78
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2549
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FTP Identifier
32205433

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Dates
1865-10
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Citation

Lewis Colbert 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-0001-004-2549 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Govenor of Kentucky The undersigned petitioners citizens of Boyd County would respectfully represent that at the October term of the Boyd circuit court 1865 a judgment was rendered against German May for Sixty dollars on an Indictment for Keeping a tippling house, the proof showed that may was licensed to sell by the Quart as a merchant and there was no proof that he sold in any less quantity but the proof was clear that he refused to sell any smaller quantity one witness proved he sold a quart and that he went out of the house with it over in the Rail Road some distance from the place where sold and there he and another man took a drink, upon this proof the jury returned

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a verdict of Guilty we are sure that May has conducted the sale of liquor with more than ordinary care and respect for the law we therefore pray your Excellency to remitt this fine against him

Lewis Colbert
T. A. Newman
plesant couft
I Black
W D Creasey
Moses Everman
John R Hold
John Triplet
Johnathan Colbert
Wil Kibby
George Burgraf
A. Meyers
Georg Sohmer
Johnny Long
Geo M. Rouse
Wm Arthur
Martin duval
J W Pough
Greenhill Arthur
Samuel, Arthur
John P. Brien
J, M, Gray

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German May