Petition

John S. Tucker and A. S. Greenlee to Thomas E. Bramlette

Place of Creation
Crittenden 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
BR42-357 to BR42-358
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-3446
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FTP Identifier
32206211

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Dates
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1865-08
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John S. Tucker and A. S. Greenlee 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-0001-004-3446 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
A S Greenlee

Your petitioners John. S. Tucker would Respectfully state that at the last November term of the Crittenden circuit ^court^ The Grand Jury Impanneled for said County Returned into the circuit court an Indictment charging them as one of the officers of the election held in the Union precinct in sd county on the [...] day of August 1865 with the offence of preventing men Legally entitled to vote from casting their votes a copy of the Indictment is here with filed, Your petitioners admits that they did act as Sheriff ^and Judge^ at Said election but they deny in the most emphatic manner that they in any way interfeared with the Right of any citizen to vote ^who was a Legal voter^ or that they made any threats, or did any act calculated in any way to intimidate any citizen while at the election in Said precinct on the day aforsaid or in any way to interfere with the citizens while at

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polls to prevent them from casting their votes for whoever they pleased

Wherefore they ask the intervention of Executive clemency on their behalf knowing that they prosecution is malicious and only intended to annoy, and put them to expence cost and trouble

John S.. Tucker
A. S. Greenlee

We the undersigned petitioners state that John S Tucker and A. S. Greenlee [...] are both good citizens and every ^way^ reliable and we believe their statements are strictly true and that they deserve the interposition of the Executive clemency therefore we ask it for them

D. N Stinson
J N Woods
W. H. Boz
S. Corane
A. Franklin
Sam. W. Patterson
Robt. F. Haynes County Atty..
N. R. Black P. J. C C. C

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Crittenden Cir Ct
vs
A S. Greenlee
John S Tucker &c
Petition