Petition

John Mulcay to Beriah Magoffin

1860-11-09

Date of Creation
November 9, 1860
Place of Creation
Louisville, Jefferson 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
MG17-59
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0140
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FTP Identifier
32208550

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Dates
1860-11
1860-11-09
1860-11-13
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John Mulcay to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-11-09, 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-0001-020-0140 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner John Mulcay states that the November Term (1860) of the city court of Louisville, he was fine a six months imprisonment, in the county Jail of Jefferson County & also fined in the same case twenty five dollars — upon an Indictment for interferring with a Policeman, when arresting one Timothy Griffin, The Jury in the verdict recommended him to Executive Clemency — after deliberating for some time on the case in their retirement — He asks that Your excellency to remit the aforesaid imprisonment and fine & he will Ever pray & Mulcay is now confined in Jail

John Mulcay.

Louisville Nov 9th 1860 —

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Remitted as to imprisonment
B. M.

Louisville Cty Ct
$25. & 6 mos. Impt
John Mulcay
IssdNov 13. 1860