Isaac Rumsey to Beriah Magoffin
1861-05-09
- Date of Creation
- May 9, 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
- MG20-166
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1068
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209476
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Citation
Isaac Rumsey to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-05-09, 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-0001-020-1068 (November 14, 2026).
To His Excellency
The Governor of Kentucky
Your Petitioner Isaac Rumsay states that he was this day fined $50, — in the Lexington city court for carrying a pistol or rather he confessed Judgt for that amount, as he had in fact carried the pistol, He states that he believed owing to the state of the country & the apprehension growing out of it that he was justified in carrying a pistol. & so far as he knows others took the same view. He prays your Excellency to release him from so much of the fine as by law you can
He is unable to pay it, he is poor & has a wife to support by his trade as a wagonmaker. It is the first time he ever was arraigned or fined
Isaac, Rumsey
Attest
Jno Keiser
Sworn to by Isaac Rumsey this
L. Gibbons J P.
The undersigned respictfully request your Excellency to remit the fine v Rumsy
G W Grant
R H Graves
G A Shely
E D Burke
J C Graves
Ald Collins
Wm. S. Warham
H. G. Fuller
James M Graves
W F White
E W Hukel
N P True
A Alexander
I. N. Shepperd
B N Graves
Chas J. Thomas
Jn Keiser
Jas. C. Morris
Bryan H Allen City attorney
Robt J Breckinridge
Parker Craig
J. H. Harrison
J. M. Taylor
Oliver P. Beard
thomas Michals
John G. Kiser
Enoch Clark & son
W H Fox
S. Spragens
C Wheatly.
B C, Wood
R Pindell
Thos. W. Bullock
R [...]
H. Townsend
Wm M Chesney
J B. Cooper
Joseph George
C. D. Carr
J. W. Shropshire
James B Beck
Lexington Cir. Ct
Respite 12 mo
B. M
$50 } Recog Weapons
Isaac Rumsey
Issd