James M. Nesbitt to Beriah Magoffin
1861-04-30
- Date of Creation
- April 30, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Louisa, Lawrence 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
- MG20-11 to MG20-12
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0967
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209375
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Citation
James M. Nesbitt to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-04-30, 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-0001-020-0967 (November 13, 2026).
Louisa Lawrence Co Ky
Dear Governor,
Wm Webb was fined this term of this court, $30 for three acts of Retailing, He did make some apple Brandy and he did sell Three quarts of it under the Belief he could lawfully do so but, it was drunk at the place of sale,
I know this is a case in which you ought to remit the fine Webb is an Honest clever man, and I hope you will send him, a remission
Yours Truly
J M Nesbitt
Comth Atto 11th Circuit
To His Excelleny Beriah Magoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your petitioners would humbly represent that Wm Webb was at this the April Term of the Laurence circuit Court found guilty of three acts of retailing and find thirty dollars that the selling accured as follows Webb was a distiller of Apple brandy and sold the same at his house believing he had a right to do so and the same was drank on his premises he is a man of honesty loyalty and obedient to the Law and would not violate the Law Knowingly. We ask most humbly your excellency to remit the fine imposed upon him
L Moore
J W Haws S L C
John M Rice
Walter Osburn J P L C
Jas Hensley
J W Hensly
Isaac Hensley
Wm Shore
Thomas Hensly
J M. Rice
Lawrence Cir. Ct
Remitted
B. M
$30
Wm Webb
Issd.
