Charles Mytinger to Beriah Magoffin
1861-08-13
- Date of Creation
- August 13, 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
- MG21-238 to MG21-239
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1330
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209738
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Citation
Charles Mytinger to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-08-13, 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-0001-020-1330 (November 12, 2026).
To his Excellency.
B. McGoffin Governor of Ky
Your Petitioner Charles Mytinger Sen. will state to your excellency, that he has been in bad health for a number of years, and very poor and unable to work for a living he a short time past opened a small grocery in the City of Maysville, and for the last three months kept a small portion of whisky to sell to a few friends who visited his house, as it was not his object to keep a drinking house to make money to the sale of spiritious liquors
Under the state of case has been taken up by the Mayor of the City of Maysville and fined fifty dollars and costs. He is poor very poor and not able to pay the fine and he petitions your Excellency to remit the whole fine-
His poverty drove him to the sale of the small quantity of liquor, and he pledge himself to cease the sale of spirits in his grocey.
Charles Mytinger
We are acquainted with Charles Mytinger. He is in very bad health and poor and we petition your Excellency to grant his petition and to remit his fine of $10- assessed by the Mayor of Maysville.
Francis T Hord
Keith Berry
R H Baldwin
H. Taylor
Robt A Cochran
Emery Whitaker
J. R. Paddock
H. Reed
L G Hickman
A M January
Jno D Taylor
ThosJ.Throop
W. H. McGranughan
Nelson Whitaker
W. H. Wadsworth.
Maysville City Ct
$50
Chas. Mytinger
Respite 12 Mo
B. M
Issd2930. 1861
