H. H. Lock and N. Goldsmith to Beriah Magoffin
1861-04-19
- Date of Creation
- April 19, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Munfordville, Hart 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
- MG20-20
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0972
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209380
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Citation
H. H. Lock and N. Goldsmith 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-0001-020-0972 (November 14, 2026).
Munfordville Ky.
His Excelency B Magoffin
Frankfort Ky
your petitioners the undersignd state that at the present term of the Hart Equity & Criminal Court, They were both fined fifty dollars each for selling spirits to James H Cumpton a miner, They both state that they are licensed to sell liquor according to law, and they do not now nor did they on tryal deny the selling of the liquor to Cumpton as charged in the inditement against them but they state that the sale was made to him with no intention of violating the law against selling spirits to miners= that they sold to him publicly and in the same manner that that they did to other gentlemen, beleaving from his ocupation and appearance that he was of full age,
Wherefor they ask your Exelency to remit the fines or so much thereof as according to law and ^in^ your judgment you beleave should be remitted
H. H. Lock
N. Goldsmith
The above petition was sworn to before me by H. H. Lock and Nathan Goldsmith the
H M Shuffitt Examiner for Hart County
Petition of H. H. Lock & Nathan Goldsmith to remit fine
Remitted B. M