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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-2058 BR14-245 to BR14-246

Blandville, Ballard County, Kentucky Blandville, Ballard County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency Thomas E. Bramlett governor of Kentucky Your Petitioner W. H. Watson will Respectfully Represent that on the day of July 1865 a warrant was issued by C. F. Cate Presiding Judge of the Ballard County Court, against the Petitioner for Keeping a tipling house in the Town of Blandville from the of June 1865 to the day of July 1865 and that upon the trial of the cause it was assumed that your Petitioner had Sold ardent Spirits by the drink three times within the Period charged in the warrant Whereupon your Petitioner was fined Sixty Dollars & costs of suit Now your Petitioner will Say that he Does not intend to violate the Law and fully believed he had Licens to Keep a coffee house according to Law, He having gone into copartnership with a man by the name of Bryant, a few days before in the coffee house bus, and believing they Procurred the Licens jointly, your Petitioner bought and Briants inst. in the house and Sold ardent spirits at Least three times, when, he found that no licens had been granted to him as a copartner of Briant but that your Petitioners name alone was subject to the Bond as soon as you Petitioner found this fact at once closed his house & Procuring a Proper Licens, Now in consideration of the of the premises

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your Petitioner will Respectfully ask your Excellency to; remit the fine imposed Promising in the future to obey all the Laws of the Commonwealth, as he has ever done Except in the above instance, and he believs your Executive Clemency will not be misplaced Respectfully

W. H. Watson

We the undersigned citizens of Blandville and Ballard County concur in the Statement in the above Petition & Join ^Wm Watson^ in his Pray, to be Released from the fine imposed for Keeping a Tipling House

R. J. Ligon J, R, Yarbrough James L. Hinds W. C. Pain G W Taylor W. Garnett W. W. Pucket S L Powell T P Linthicum H C Roberts Smith Garrett John. Woolfollk. J B Hill A J. Davis J, A, Carpender H. Unsell D,, L. Troutman William Davis P. H. Tiraal J Hamiliton D, A, Hamilton C S. Cobbs H. G. Black A Bodkin J. L. Smedley James Avinesbourg P,, H. Bondurant H. P. Hutton R T Crouch A. Hall W, A, Jett J. M. Blankes W L. Watson D Mosby

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C, C, Terrell W. S. Smith G W Utterback G T Armestr^ong^ J B Gentry G M Hawk J H Crice Fred Crice W. B. Middleton R Broms S. H. Wilson E White G W Sulivan William P Stovall G. A. Reeves Richard George W H George R, H. Simpkins W. C. Reily Thomas Vallendingham J. S. Cleaves A W Shelly G, F, Nichols G M Sulivan J. M. Carneal J. H. Eddy H H Samuels T. C. Ray G A Flood Eli Evans J. J. Mesham H. L. Brown L. Tally M. T. Tally E H Mariel J. H. M. Billington Richard A middleton W. J. Odoniley J S Haule H H McChristian Josiah Smallman Daniel Unsel P. T. Russell Wm Russell W. M. Olive D. M. Coil M. T. Shellon W. J. Emler Joseph Evans J. H. Crouch G J Briant H Srifinal R N Purdy L Vaughn C Elliott Paul W Terrell J C Sulivan John Rutter H C Samuels Richard Mercer George, W, Stoval

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F, J, Coffee E Uncell P C Puckett F. W. Puckett T Richards John G. Eliston T, J, George E F Watson W. W. Mosby J. W. Lynn Thos. H. Wm Thomas L. C. Calhoon J. N. Vaughn A, J, Persell A J Warden S E Underwood James McCaully W N Morgan Asa Richardson J. W. Hutchon G A Boston S. W. Owens A. T. Edgin H L Brown P, M, Hotterman Wm M Martin W L Watson P A Jones Lieut H Holley E T Hamilton W. M. Anderson W. P. Knox G W Stearsman W F Stearsman C, W. H. Jones Wm Hughs C A Bingham D J Watson W S Watson Aron Mcdanil Wm Hall F. Tharp W. J. Apperson F Stone Alan Heders M A Tharp W S Jentry Frelin Tharp J. T. Davis J P Pallock Daniel Childress T N Rolett John W. Massee J. N Cain J T Johnson