Correspondence

James H. Compton to Beriah Magoffin

1861-04-19

Date of Creation
April 19, 1861
Place of Creation
Munfordville, Hart 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
MG19-481
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0933
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FTP Identifier
32209341

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Dates
1861-04-19
1861-04
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James H. Compton to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-04-19, 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-0001-020-0933 (November 13, 2026).

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Munfordville Ky
April 19th 1861
His Excellency B Magoffin
Respected sir

At the present April term of our Equity & Criminal Court H H Lock & Nathan Goldsmith were each fined $50. under the law against selling spiritous liquors to minors and I understand that they have Petitioned your Exelency to remit said fines I therefore state that if you can consistent with your duty remit said fines that it would confer a lasting favor upon me as I am was the minor to whom the Spirits were sold for which they were fined I am not Twenty one years old and was in my Twenty first year at the date of said sale and believe they though when they sold me the spirits that I was of full age I do not believe that they hadd any intention of violating the law in selling me the spirits for which they were fined I am personally acquainted with Mess Lock & Goldsmith and Know them both to be clever Gentlemen and believe that their case merits executive clemency.

Very respectfully
James H Compton

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Letter of J H Compton
To Governor


Respite 12 mo
B. M