Petition

C. J. Walker et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Madison 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
MG18-270 to MG18-271
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0497
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FTP Identifier
32208905

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Dates
1860-12
1861-01-21
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Citation

C. J. Walker et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-0497 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency
B Magoffin

The undersigned would respectfully represent that your Petitioner James Pilant on the [...] day of the Decr term of the Madison Circuit Court 1860 was Convicted by Confession of Judgment of Keeping a Tipling House. He may have sold liquor Contrary to law as much as twice

He has been a licensed tavern Keeper for two years past. He sold this liquor after his license for the 1st year ran out and before he renewed for the 2nd year. He was under the impression that his license permitted him to sell for one month after the expiration of his license for the year when he intended to renew for the 2nd year which was his intention & which he did do.

Upon inquiring of the County atty he found he had done wrong which he deeply regrets. Mr Pilant is a very poor man ^and an old man^ but one of the most honest in our whole county. He has a family to maintain and is ^in feeble health and^ is afflicted with a cancer on his mouth which will we greatly fear destroy his usefulness to his family in the future. We —

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earnestly recommend him to your excellency as a proper subject for the interposition of Executive Clemency.

C J Walker

I concur in the pray of the within Petition
W. H. Caperton

G E Billingsly
Giles Saunders
Woodson Lucas
Levi Long
Thomas Long
C, M, Taylor
J. P.. Stapp
Robbert. D Burton
Dr Groomes Taylor
Sq. David Vincent
James.. Hendron.
A B H Jeffrees
Wm Tuder
Green B. Hambic
Caperton Vincent
Avory Davis
Elicid Warren
Thomas G Yancey

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[Page 4] Madison Cir. ct.
$60 } Tippling
James Pilant
Petition

Remitted
B. M

Iss'Jany 21. 1861