Petition

George McMillen to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG19-274 to MG19-275
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0811
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FTP Identifier
32209219

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Dates
1861-03
1861-03-21
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George McMillen 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-0001-020-0811 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner George McMillin states that at the March Term (1861) of the city court of Louisville he was fined one hundred dollars on an Indictment for shooting at M Henneleyer, Said Henneleyer, was not injured by Petitioner & shot at him first He was fined fifty dollars for an assault & battey charged to have been committed —

Your Petitioner is a young man, and poor. The costs in these cases is large, and as much as petitioner is perselly able to pay now, He therefore most respectfully aks your Excellency to respite said fines for a short time until he can have opportunity to settle: These fines, are excessive & he hopes you will relieve him

Respectfully
George McMillen

We the undersigned know the petitioner George McMillen & respectfully Join in this petition

S. N. Hall
M. Nyles

George McMillen
W. G. Reasor
W, A, Hundley
Hamilton T. Figg
Chs. Hatsely
Robert A Hamilton
Isham Talbot
James Talbert
J, G White
J B Hemp
Peter Renter
John Vetter
Wm Gregory
Chas Schage
John McMahon

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Respite 6 mo
Louisville City Ct
$100.
$50. } Misdemeanor
Geo. McMillen
IssdMar. 21. 1861