Petition

Patrick Linnehan and Nora Linnehan to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Louisville, Jefferson 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
BR42-275 to BR42-276
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3401
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FTP Identifier
32206167

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Dates
1864-03
1864
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Patrick Linnehan and Nora Linnehan 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-0001-004-3401 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency, Thos E Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky.

Your Petitioners Patrick Linnehan, and Nora Linnehan, state that at the March Term, (1864) of the city court of Louisville, a fine of twenty dollars was assessed against them (partners) on a trial, for selling liquor without license, The witnesses against them were persons who had deadly hatred against petitioners, Nora Linnehan had Eight hundred dollars stolen from her, & she caused Search warrants to be issued to search the premises of said witnesses for the stolen money and thereupon they appeared before the Grand Jury and upon their testimony said Indictment was found and upon their testimony said conviction was had. They state that, that they as brother & sister keep a boarding house, that they keep a small quantity of whisky at times for the accomodation of their boarders that all of sd boarders appeared in court & testified that they had never paid one cent for drinks taken in their house. Yet the said Prejudiced witnesses stated otherwise. Your Petitions declare that they were guiltless. They ask for a remission of sd fine

Respectfully
Patrick Linnehan
Nora Linnehan

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We the undersigned neighbors to the Petitioners know them well & believe that the statements contained in the foregoing petition are true.

Charles Lee
James Mahoney
Thomas Reagan
James Scanlon
Daniel Flynn
Robert S Donaldson
Timothy Brown
B Robert Hagerty
Thomas foughlen
John Coleman
William Coleman
Michle Aherne
Daniel Surgan
William Noughtlen
John Sulivan
Mickle Reagan
John Seckston
John Mahoney
Edward Reardon
James Doyele
John Mccarty
The above un

The persons names above are the immediate neighbors of the petitioners. There was certainly ill feeling between

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the petioners and the witnesses named in the foregoing petitiion.

W. G. Reasor
Geo. W. Johnston

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Louisville
Refused
Thos E Bramlette
1864