James Keeling et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Accession Number

KYR-0001-020-1690

Document Genre

Petition

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG22-375 to MG22-376

Place of Creation

Washington County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

8 February 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-02-08

1862-02-14

To his Excellency the Governor of Ky

Your petitioners James Keeling and other citizens of Washington County represent that in a prosecution for breach of the peace before F H [Chasser] Esq a justice of the peace of Washington County he was adjudged to pay a fine of $17.⁵⁰/₁₀₀ and costs for which an execution is in the hands of Joseph Reddicks a constable — the offe^n^ce charged was disorderly conduct at the house of Joseph Hall his brother in law who caused his prosecution but who is now reconciled with him — Said Keeling is a very poor young man —, and not now having disipated is of ordinary good conduct, and is now the only reliance for attention and protection of his father and Mother, the former having been for years entirely confined to bed by age and disease — Your petitioners respectfully ask a remission of said fine — Feby 8. 1862

James ^his X mark^ Keeling

Sworn to by James Keeling before me Feby 8. 1862

R S Peters, Clk

We join in the prayer of the above petition regarding the remission of the fine a proper act of Executive Clemency —

R H Browne
W, G,, Moffett

M R Hardin
R S Peters
J P Barbour

C. R Craycroft
Ja^s P Calhoun
Tho^s J Badgett

Washington J. P.
Remitted
B. M
$17.⁵⁰/₁₀₀ } Breach
Ja^s Keeling
Iss^dFeby 14. 1862

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