Petition

Samuel Denham to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Whitley 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
BR42-193 to BR42-194
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3347
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206116

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Dates
1865-08
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Citation

Samuel Denham 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-0001-004-3347 (November 14, 2026).

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To his excellency Thomas E Bramlett Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner Samuel Denham Respectfully shoeth unto your excellency that at the August term of the Whitley Circuit Court 1865 he was fined Seventy five Dollars and convicted to ten days imprisonment in the jail of Whitley County for a breech of the peace committed by fighting with C. L. Creekmore in the town of Williamsburg he states that the dificulty came up suddenly and unexpectedly over some fuss & dificulties between the children Mr Creekmore and petitioner that in said fight no weapons were used of any discription, your petitioner states that he had been taken up by D. H. Luforce a Justice of the peace for Whitley County & fined by a Jury for the same offence but the Magistrate before whom he was tried failed to render a Judgement upon the verdict of the jury and although your petitioner paid the fine & cost and the fine was paid into the public treasury he could

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not plead said proceeding in bar because the Justice D. H. Laforce had failed to render a Judgement upon the verdict of the Jury-

You petitioner is a sober man of steady habits and has a family of children and an afflicted wife and he prays your Excellency to interpose your pardoning power and remit said fine ^imprisonment^ and is in duty and will ever pray

Samuel Denham
Petitioner

I hope your excellency may grant the prayer of the petitioner
David Y Lyttle
G. W. Lyttle
W C Murphy

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I am well acquainted with Samuel Denham the petitioner and know him to be a good Citizen and altho' I was not engaged in the case. I have no hesitation in saying that in my judgment it would be right to ^grant the^ remitt the Judgmt referred, the people here will endorse it & I hope you will grant the relief

Respectfully
W. H. Randall

I concur with W H Randall

Granville Pearl

Gov Bramlette I think it will be right to remit the fine & imprisonment & hope you will do it

H F Finley

I know Mr Denham personally, well, he is a highly respectable Gentleman, perphaps the only case of difficulty of this in which he has ever been engaged, and believe that it would be right to remit the penalty

W. C. Gilliss