Petition

C. Daugherty and A. H. Brown to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-12-22

Date of Creation
December 22, 1865
Place of Creation
Mill Springs, Wayne County, Kentucky
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
BR17-30 to BR17-31
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2771
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32205655

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Dates
1865-04
1865-10
1865-12-22
1865-12-26
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C. Daugherty and A. H. Brown to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-12-22, 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-0001-004-2771 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Governor of the Commonwealth of Ky —

Your humble petitioners would respectfully represent that at the April Term of the Wayne Circuit Court 1865 Charles Daugherty and Alexander H Brown were indicted for the offence of Gaming, and in pursuance of Said indictment Confessed judgment for Twenty Dollars each at the October term 1865 of Said Court —

They further State the Specific act for which they were indicted was Playing for Home made Sugar at Mill Springs Ky, and that some three or four months previous to the rendition of the above fine inflicted against them, they had formed a resolution to forever abandon the practice of gaming, and have up to this time Strictly Conformed to this resolution —

In view of which facts they respectfully petition his Excellency byto the power vested in him as Executive, to remit those fines as far as is practicable
Mill Springs Ky Dec 22 1865

Respectfully
C Daugherty
A H Brown

We whose names are hereunto subscribed endorse the foregoing Statements as true

James Denny
T V West
F I Dunnigan
James Ruck
George West —

Harry Sloan Sr
Burr Castello
J. Smith Frisbie
Wm H Brown
Elihu Taylor

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[Page 4] Wayne Cir Ct
vs
Alex H Brown & Chas Dougherty
$20, each

Remitted 26 Dec /65