Frederick Keck to Beriah Magoffin
1861-01-09
- Date of Creation
- January 9, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- 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
- MG18-306 to MG18-307
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0519
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208927
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Citation
Frederick Keck 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-0001-020-0519 (November 13, 2026).
Louisville 11th
To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Govr. of Kentucky —
Your petitioner Frederick Keck would most respectfully state That he was fined in the city Court of Louisville 3 or 4 months since for assault & Battery on three Indictments. One of the sum of One Hundred dolls one the sum of Fifty dolls & the third One cent, he was absent at the calling & trial of the first & 2nd case but was present when the third case was tried, all occured at the about the same time the whole of the costs /without including the two attorneys proportion of the fine which amounts to 30 pr ct for the city & County attorneys ^each^ tdo the clerk &c amt
$47.16cts Executions are now in the hands of the city marshall & I will be imprisoned if I cannot get some friend to pay the same, I am [...] years old of German Extraction tho: by birth a Kentuckian my father died here whilst I was quite young I know not why, I should have been [...] then heavily fined when others guilty of like conduct & much worse, are permitted to go untouched & unnoticed I have offered to pledge the little property remaining to me, to any person to pay these fines but the times are such that now will advance for me I have no alternative but to appeal to your clemency, in my behalf, to remit my
fines which will be extended, I hope, on this occasion, I ssure yr Excellency forthefuture that I will endeavor to deserve this favor by deporting myself peaceably for the future & your petitioner will ever pray &c with quiet respect I am Sir your obt servt
Fred Keck
Sworn to & Subscribed before me
Lovell H Rouseeau
Notary Public
Jeff County Ky
Your Excellency I defended Fred: Keck & believe the foregoing statement to be true. I think this a deserving case for Clemency please remit his fine It will amt. now to over One
hundred dollars as it is which in these times can not be borrowed with the greatest respect & esteem I am sir yr obt Servt
John Joyes
Louisville City Ct
$100
$50 } Assault
F. Keck
Respd 12 mos
Issd