Petition

G. E. Billingsly 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
MG18-437 to MG18-438
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0609
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32209017

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Dates
1860-06
--09
1861-02-21
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Citation

G. E. Billingsly 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-0001-020-0609 (November 13, 2026).

[Page 1]

To His Excellency
Hon Beriah Magoffin

The undersigned subscribers would respectfully represent that your Petition A. J. Gully was indicted at the June Term of the Madison Circuit Court in 1860. for keeping a Tipling house and at the September term of the court for the same year was found guilty and judgment had for sixty dollars & costs. amounting in all to some sevinty two dollars

They would further represent that Mr Gully your petitioner is a verypoorman and and has a family to maintain and that it would be an extreme hardship for him to pay the above specified sum. They further state that if all he owns were sold it would not be sufficient to satisfy the judgment. and furthermore that he is physically unable to labor & has been for two years. In view of these facts we think your petitioner Mr Gully is a subject worthy the exercise of Executive clemency in remitting $42 of the fine

Subscribers Names
G. E. Billingsly
Jas B. McCreary

Subscribers Names
J M Shackelford

[Page 2]

The Statements in the foregoing Petition are true and I concur in the within prayer

Wm[Q]. Davis

[Page 3]

Samuel Fox Jr
Chelton A Lile
Thomas Jeffries
G. B. Igo

[Page 4]

Madison Cir Ct
To Hon. B Magoffin
Petition
$60 } Tipling
Respite 12 mo
B. M.
IssdFeby 21. 1861
A. J. Gully
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