Petition

Peter Miller to Beriah Magoffin

1861-01-02

Date of Creation
January 2, 1861
Place of Creation
Maysville, Mason 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
MG18-207 to MG18-208
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0453
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FTP Identifier
32208861

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Dates
1860-11-19
1861-01-02
1861-01-18
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Peter Miller to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-02, 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-0001-020-0453 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency, Beriah Magoffin, Governor of Kentucky.

Your petitioner would respectfully represent, that on the 19th. day of November 1860. he was fined by the Mayor of the City of Maysville, in the sum of Twenty Dollars, for the alledged charge of selling Spirituous Liquors contray to the Ordinance of said City. He states that he had license from the City to sell Spiruituous Liquors, in the house occupied by him in said City, and having rented the City Hall for an evening, sold Liquor in it. He states that he was entirely ignorant of the Ordinance of said City forbidding the sale of Spirituous Liquors in any other house than that which he permanently occupied. He states that he believes the person who informed against him, did so through malice, and that said witness is now in the jail of Mason County upon a charge of Grand Larceny. He humbly asks your Excellency, to bestow your clemency upon him by remitting said fine, as he is a poor man with a large family and can illy afford to pay said fine. For which he will ever feel gratefull,

Maysville, Ky Jany. 2nd. 1861.

Peter Miller

The undersigned, citizens of Maysville, unite in the above petition for the remittance of the fine against Mr. Miller.

Keith Berry
Robt A Cochran
W. F. Wilson
Chas H. Sharpe
T. J. Pickett

PeterMiller
Ben Phister.
W. C. Jenkins
Wm Forman
Washington Evans
J F Young

[Page 2] Jos H, Black
Hamilton Gray
Samuel C Pearce
H. Bertram
W. C. Eitel
Wm. Ort
[Baldus Frey]
R. W. Watkins
John C Fitzgerald
H Thompson
Christian Altmeyer
George Straub
Fredrick Shatzman.
Gge Helmer.
John Adam Eschelbach
Jos. F. Brodrick
J. Friedrich Bendel
G W Lloyd
Jas A. Johnson
Peter Anthes
Jno B. Gibson
R C Bierbower
Jacob Lundgraf
John Bauer
Jacob Joerger
Hiram Bassett
Saml W. Owens
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Maysville City Ct

Remitted
B, M.

$20 } Spirituous Liquor
Peter Miller
IssdJany 18. 1861