Isaac Cox to Beriah Magoffin
1861-01-12
- Date of Creation
- January 12, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Whitley 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
- MG18-293 to MG18-294
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0511
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208919
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Citation
Isaac Cox to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-12, 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-0001-020-0511 (November 13, 2026).
To the Excelence of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Ky
Your petitioner Isaac M Coxyold Respectifull Represent to your honor Excelence that Some he is a Resident of the state of Alabam but was Rased in Whitley County Ky and that he Returned to Whitley on a visit and had ben trawlin all the time tell he a bout andor two ^or three^ days when they was a warnt is^ued^ by a justice of the peace against him for Carering conceald deadley wepons and he was fined by said justice $50.00 he states that if he has the same to pay that he will not have money a nough to cary him and his wife Back home and that he is a way from home and his busisness call him hom your petitioner further States that he did not know that the law of Ky forbid caring conceld weapons he has had no intention of violating the law in carrying
the wepon he prays that your Exelence will Remite the fine and for all other proper Releif
Isaac Cox
Isaac M Cox states that he believs the statements in the fore going petition to be true
J M Cox
Swon to before me by J M Cox this the
L. D. Sutton P J W C
we the under signed Request that your Exelents Remite the fine as your petitioner was Rased a viry pore boy and we do not believe he knew that he was violating to the law by caring the wepan
names of subsribrs
John Smith
James Cutbirth
Wm C Cox
Wm A peabler
J. L. McCarty
Jiss Garnet
Thomas Cox
P.. Meador
R Bird
D. B. [...] Cox
Abeslam Cox
M C Roche
T. D. Sutton
Isaiah Bird
F Nicholson
A. D. Brooks
S P Brawner
W F Denham
W C Murphy
J N Vye
Amber Parker
W J Tye
To his Excelency Beriah McGoffin Govener of Kentucky Mr Isaac N Cox was tried before me for caring conseald weapons other than a ordinary pocket knife and the right of Jury was waived by our county attorney and after having Heard the proof and not being able to find any law to Justify a traveler for carring consealed weapons & fined the said cost fifty Dollars I think it nothing but right the same should be remited by your Exelency I am conferdent he is a citizen of Allbamer and did not no it was against the Law to carry the same
Whitley
J. P.
Remitted
B. M
$50 } Weapons
J. M. Cox
Issd