Petition

John C. Strong to Beriah Magoffin

1861-05-22

Date of Creation
May 22, 1861
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
MG20-145 to MG20-146
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1055
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FTP Identifier
32209463

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Dates
1860-10
1861-05
1861-05-22
1861-06-24
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John C. Strong to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-05-22, 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-0001-020-1055 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your Petitioner John. C. Strong states that at the october Term of the Breathitt Circuit Court 1860 your Petitioner states that he was prescuten for Keeping a Tipling house, & at the present May Term of said court he was found $20 — for said offence, or for one single act of Retailing your petitioner states that he was a Distiller that he made. & Distilled apple brandy last fall & on one accasion while your petitioner was from home his wife sold one half pint of brandy for 5 cnts this was not done at the aprobation of your petitioner — your petitioner says that he did not sell by retail his brandy that he made about 50 gallons of Brandy & that he gave it all away to his poor neighbours & the sick — in the neighbourhood that he never got one cent of money for any portion of the brandy he made & in trooth he did not get the 5 cnts he thinks it hard to pay 20$ & give all the brandy away he says he in Justice ought not to pay the fine for what he has Stated is the ungarnished trooth Just as it is — your petitioners under these Circumstances & from the hard times your petitioners asks your Excellency to Remit said fine 22 may 1861

John C Strong

we Join in the above petition

Isaac N. Cardwell.
Wm L Hurst
J D Cooley
O. W. Hart

Jno. w Hazelipp
Thos Munger
John Deaten
W. Chiles

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John W Car^d^well
W. G. Haddix
Morgan R. Puckett
James Combs
J. W. Moore
George Frazier
John Little
S P Frazier
A B Patrick

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Gov Magoffin
Dear
Sir

I hope you will remit this fine I know that it aught to be remited

yours truly
Granville Pearl

I agree in the above

John Dishman

[Page 4]

J. C Strongs
Petition

Remitted
B. M

IssdJune 24