Petition

Joel W. Ridgell et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Barbourville, Knox 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
BR42-271
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3398
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206164

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Dates
1864-04
1860-09
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Citation

Joel W. Ridgell 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-0001-004-3398 (November 13, 2026).

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Barbourville Ky
To His Excellency
Thos E Bramlett Governor of Ky

Your Petitioner Elizabeth Wyatt would respectfully represent that a fine of $20 dollars went by Default agst your Petitioner at the April Term of the Knox circuit ^1864^, court upon an indictment found by the Grand Jury of said County, for living in addultory, at the Sept Term 1860 with one Martain Bolls Said Bolls has been absent from this commonwealth for 2 years past She further Says she is poor & under the present presure of hard times She is unable to pay Said fine and sends to his Excellency the Petition with the undersd asking the Govenor to Exercise his clemency & remit said fine Sined

Joel. W. Ridgell
Wm Tuggle Clerk Knox Cir Court
M. M. Pope P. J. K. C. C
Geo. M. Adams Jr.
F. P. Stickley

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Knox Cir Ct
vs
Elizabeth Wyatt

Refused