Petition

Andrew Ingram to Beriah Magoffin

1860-10-26

Date of Creation
October 26, 1860
Place of Creation
Bath County, Kentucky
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
Box / Folder
MG17-52
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0135
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FTP Identifier
32208545

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Dates
1860-08
1860-10-26
1860-11-12
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Andrew Ingram to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-10-26, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0135 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency Gov Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner Andrew Ingram would most respectfully state to your Excellency that in the month of August 1860 he was tried for a breach of the peace before Esquire Thomas Spencer in the county of Bath and that he was fined the sum of $30 and committed to the Jail of Bath County for fifteeen days. he thinks the verdict a hard one, that he is a poor man. having a large family dependent upon him for a livelihood — and he prays your Excellency to remit the aforesaid fine and imprisonment, and he will ever pray &c

Andrew Ingram

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of October 1860

V B Young
Notary Public

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Bath J P
$30. & 15 days Impt.
breach of the peace
Respd 12 mos
IssdNov 12. 1860
Andrew Ingram