Correspondence

J. W. Moore to Beriah Magoffin

1861-05-03

Date of Creation
May 3, 1861
Place of Creation
Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
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
MG20-173
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1075
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FTP Identifier
32209483

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Dates
1861-05-03
1861-05-07
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J. W. Moore to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-05-03, 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-0001-020-1075 (November 13, 2026).

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Mount Sterling May 3rd 1861,
To his Excellency
Gov Megoffin

At the last term of the Montgomery Circuit Court Michael Oconnel was fined $60 for Keeping a tipling house, The selling was done, in his absence by a clerk, and without his knowledge as far as the jury shewed any thing, Oconnel keeps a very fair and gentell grocery here is an industrious & [enegetic] man — began the world poor and is unable to pay the fine without serious injury I am satisfied he will not repeat the offense or allow it to be done I hope the governer will remit the fine. and have it immediately transmitted to the sheriff of this County as the replevy is now about out,

Yours truly
J, W, Moore

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Montgomery Cir. Ct
$60 } Tipling
M, O Connell
Issd. May 7. 1861

respite 12 mo B, M