Petition

Samuel O. Berry 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
MG20-70 to MG20-71
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1004
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FTP Identifier
32209412

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Dates
1859-02
1860-02-11
1861-04-16
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Citation

Samuel O. Berry 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-0001-020-1004 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky.

Your petitioner Saml O Berry respectfully represents that at the Feby Term 1859 of the Fayette Circuit Court he was fined $250 on an indictment for a disorderly house — He states that at the time said fine was rendered there was a strong prejudice against the keepers of groceries in the City of Lexington which induced juries upon presumption alone to render verdicts against all who were indicted. He is & has always been a quiet & orderly citizen & denies that he ever suffered or permitted any noise or disorder of any kind about said store — He has not been in the grocery business for some time, is in poor circumstances & has not the means to pay said fine — Unless remitted by your Excellency he must go to the jail of the county to satisfy the capias —

He respectfully asks a remission of said fine —

S,, O,, Berry

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Knowing Saml O Berry to be a peacable — quiet & well behaved citizen, we recommend to his Excellency the Governor a remission of his fines & unite with him in his petition

John B Payne Jr
Bryan H Allen
Frank. Walters
B F Graves
James B Beck
L. P. Young
Robt J Breckinridge
W, C, May
C. C. Rogers
L C Robards
A O. Robards
W. R. Davis
C C Morgan

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Fayette Cir. Ct
$250. } Disorderly House

Respite 8 mos
B. M.

IsdFby 11. 1860
B M

S. O. Berry


make Alfred F Bowron
Not Pub for Clarke
Remission Issd Apr 16. 1861