Philip Carroll to Beriah Magoffin
1861-07-13
- Date of Creation
- July 13, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky
- 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
- MG21-174
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1288
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209696
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Citation
Philip Carroll to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-07-13, 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-0001-020-1288 (November 13, 2026).
To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky
Your Petitioner Philip Carroll states, that he was fined $10. on an ordinance warrant in the city Court of Louisville, for selling beer without license, Mr Carroll is a weakly sickly man and is not able to do any business, and is very poor- Mrs Carroll, is very clever & industrious, woman, and by her attention to their Grocery supports the family He respectfully asks Your Excellency to remit the fine.
Philip Carroll,
I join with petitioner and recommend a remission of the above mentioned fine
W G Reasor
I know Mrs Carroll she is a verry worthy & Industrious Woman, I have learned from her neighbors that her husband is in feeble health & unable to Labor & that she Supports her family by her own Exertions
Geo. W. Johnston.
Respite 12 mo
B, M
Louisville City Ct
$10. } Misdemeanor
P. Carroll
Issd