Petition for a Tavern License
Estill County Circuit Court
March 25, 1855

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Contributed to the Estill Co., KY Archives by:
Jen Bawden
Originally published in the ECHGS Newsletter & used with their permission
Date: 05/16/1999
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The undersigned Respectfully ask the Judge of the Estill County Court to
grant to Martin Ballard a license to keep a tavern at his house on Hardwick
Creek, as they believe a tavern is required for the convenience of the
traveling public and also the neighborhood.

Petition signed by the following:

James Puckett, Elyah Abner, Robert Barnett, George Tirey, Marcillus
Patton, Peter Shimfessle, James Strange, Turner Lee, James Wells,
John Crutchfield, W.A.L.B. Sharp, A.P. Bush, Simeon Tirey, Anderson Lyle,
Elijah Vaughn, John Burton, John Wells, George Mountz, and D.S. Webb.

Petition against granting a Tavern License

Your petitioners have leard with regret that an application has been made
to Your Honor for a license for a tavern on Hardwick Creek in this county.

Now we would respectfully beg leave to demonstrate against the granting of
such a license. We reside on the waters of said creek and in its vicinity,
and feel a deep interest around the place and good order of said
neighborhood, and knowing as we do that such an establishment as that asked
for is not necessary for the comfort or convenience of anyone.  It would be
a curse and blight to our neighborhood. We know this from experience, the
recollection of which is too painful to recite.

We earnestly ask a favorable consideration of our circumstance.

Submitted to Your Honor:

Mathew McKinny, Jesse W. Jones, George H. Judy, William McHoy, G. Combs,
D.R. Mckinney, William T. Swope, G.W. Lyle, William Burton, William
Carmichael, Martin A. Lyle, Thomas Tribble, Samuel Williams, G.E. Farney,
O. Robertson, John Tipton, George Carmichael, William Tipton, John C. Mason,
George Mountz, Adam Mountz, William Clark, Samuel Ginter, W.E. McKinney,
John Highley, Joseph M. Clem, John Clem, William A. McKinney, James
Harrison, George Sons, John C. Mason, Augustus Shimfessel, N. McIntosh and
John Vance.

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