Petition

Patrick U. Major 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
MG20-169
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1071
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FTP Identifier
32209479

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Dates
1861-04
1861-05-17
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Patrick U. Major 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-0001-020-1071 (November 13, 2026).

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To his excellency B Magoffin
Govenor of the commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that Jasper & Benjiman Sandford wer Seperately fined at the last April term of the Boone circuit in the sum of $50 each for a violation of the law against selling spiritous liqours to minors The were guilty of but a Single offense each and that was in selling to one Hicks who has been for sevrel years trading through the county as an adut & has evey appearance of being truely alone truely one & the said Sandfords not suspitious his non age ^but believing him to be of age^ sold him the liquor They are both poor men. & under the present state of finacial pressure in the country they are wholly unable to pay the fines without a great sacrafice in vew of the facts your petioners respectfuly [...]pray your excelency to remitt the affor said fines

I Join in the prayer of the petition

P. U. Major com'th Atty

Fount Riddell

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[...]Boone Cir Ct
Respite 12 mo
B. M
$50. } Liquor to Minors
J. & B. Sandford
IssdMay 17. 1861