Murray Kentucky Feb the 28th 1861

The undersigne is well acquainted with Samuel McKinney for what benefit your Executive Clemency is asked & will State to you Excellency that Said McKinney is Somewhere betwe 65 and 70 years of age has always been regarded as a Remarkable peacible quiet ignorant unoffending citizen. and is afflicted with Hernia or what is generally known as a falling of the Bowels he bearly able to make a Scanty Support by days work he works uponfrom place to place wherever he can get any thing to do and is industrious & temperate. at the time the Breach of the peace for which the fine was assessed was committed there were no licks struck. but was Confined to words alone & the undersigned heard all the Evidence on the trial and were of the opinion then & Now that Said McKinney was under duresss of a man by the name of Thomas Gwinn at the time who was the principal actor in the transaction

Many of the Names on this petition are men of the first Standing in the County including the County Judge Sheriff, Circuit Court Clark Several Justice of the Peace & c & c by a interposition of Executive Clemency you will Confer a great Blessing both on Said McKinny and his family & meet with the aprobation of all the citizens of the County for I feel Satisfied there is no man in the County but would be glad he could be Relieved of the fine

with high esteem I remain your obediant Servant

J. L. Wymore

To his Exellency
Govenor Magoffin

Oct the 29th 1860
To his excellency the governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

your petitioners would most respectfully represent to you that at the August term of the Calloway equity & criminal court 1860 there was fine for a breach of the peace assess^d agoinst an old citizen of said county Samuel M^cKinney for twenty six Dollars and cost upon what is regarded as testimoney of doubtful respectibility that said M^cKinney is an old man of peacible & quiet disposition, inoffensive in all his habits, that he is a poor man with a wife & Six children depending on his personal efforts for a Support, that he has now no land of his own but is a renter and consequently quite unable to pay the said fine he therefore asks your excellancy to remit Said fine and cost or so much thereof as by Law you may controll

Calloway Eq. ct
$26. } Breach
Sam^l M^cKinney
Remitted
Iss^dMar 13. 1861