Petition

James McMillen 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
MG20-242 to MG20-243
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1125
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FTP Identifier
32209533

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Dates
1861-04
1861-05-23
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James McMillen 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-0001-020-1125 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Govenor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner James McMillen states that at the April term 1861 of the city court of Louisville he was fined twenty five dollars for destroying the property of Mrs. Mae- and twenty five dollars for assaulting her, When he went to her house with some young men, at Christmas, he had no notion to disturb her or her property and the complaint against him was that he raised a poker to strike her. He got on top the house when she refused their admittance and halloed down the chimney, when it fell down and he fell off the house with it, injuring him, which Injury he repaired. It was not his ainttention to Injure her or her house, which was not done only as stated, He is unable to pay said fine the costs being as much as he can pay — Wherefore he asks that the same be remitted

Respectfully
James McMillen

We the undersigned unite with petitioner, in asking for a remission of his fine

M. Pyles
W. Emmit Garvin —
John D Pope
J. G. P. Hooe
Wm J Robard
L P. Eisert.
Philip M Victor
W. W. Pope
R. S. Evans
L. T. Sedgwick
Jno A. McLaughlin
John Kohlhepp

Wm R Jacob
S. L. Geiger
W G Reasor

I think the costs in these cases amount to more than the injury done-

W. G. Reasor
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Louisville City Ct

Remitted
B. M

2 judts $25 each } Assault &c
Jas McMullen
IssdMay 23d 1861