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Petition

Joseph R. Wheatly to Beriah Magoffin

1861-01-09

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Date of Creation: January 9, 1861
Place of Creation: Mercer 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: MG18-283 to MG18-284
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0506
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Joseph R. Wheatly to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-09, 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-0001-020-0506 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency
B. Magoffins
Gov.. of Kentucky

Your petitioner state that on the 49 day January 1861, he was fined by M. B. Pulliam acting Police Judge of Harrodsburg, the sum of Ten dollars on the charge of Committing a a breach of the peace, as follow to wit: Your petitioner the day aforesaid, steped into the ~~hot~~Poll house, a publick Hotel in Harrodsburg; and joucularly remar-ked to one William H. Alexander, with whome your petitioner was on terms of friendship at that time, and had always been; "that his (Alexander's) Mother was looking for him". Alexander responded "my Mother has enough money to buy you and your family, you damned black son of a bitch, and that your father hads black children", when I struck him with a chair, twice.

Your petitioner farther says that he is of limited means and so are his parents, and has hither too been a law abiding citizen, and desires so so to remain, and that it was only on account of the grossness of the insultoffered that he was induced

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to strike the said Alexander —

Wherefore your petitioner pray that said fine be remitted, or so much thereof as can be done, & as in duty bound he will ever pray.

Jos R Wheatly

Sworn to before me by Joseph. R. Wheatley this 9 Jany 1861.

E. J. Polk Examiner
for Mercer County

We the undersigned citizens of Harrodsburg Kentucky join in the prayer of the foregoing petition.

E. J. Polk
Cha^s W. Woods.
S. M^cBrayer
W. D. Vivion
Zack M^cBrayer
A G Nurin
W^m Rowder
Tho Allen
Ben C Allen
S. S.. M^cFabridge S. M C
M. S. M^cIntire
W. H. Lewiney
Garret S Leshune
P. B. Thompson
Ben. C. Trapnall

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Remitted
B. M.
Iss^dJay 11. '61