Petition

J. H. Steele et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Carter 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
BR42-280 to BR42-281
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3404
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32206170

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Dates
1863-11
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Citation

J. H. Steele 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-0001-004-3404 (November 15, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thos E Bramlette
Governor of the State of Kentucky

Your Petitioners would Respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the ^November^ November Term of the Carter Circuit Court 1863 Joseph Courtnay was fined by Said Court for a Breach of the peace Twenty Dollars Now your petition are well acquainted with Said Courtney. he is a poor man with a family of Small Children and is dependant in his daily labor for a support The facts of the Case are these a Man by the name of Ratcliff was prosecuting a Writ of Forcible Detainer against him to turn him out of doors Ratcliffs Loyalty was doubted and Courtney, not feeling pleasant under the Circumstances gave him a Cursing there being no licks whatever Struck and we think the fees and Costs will be sufficient punishment, to him wherefore we ask that said fine. be Remitted

J. H. Steele. M. D
H. B. Eifort
Vincent Ferguson
T S McClees J P C C
L Dodge_
Thomas Smith
B. S. Shepherd

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Carter County
Relief Refused
Tho E Bramlette