Josiah Parker et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-08-23
- Date of Creation
- August 23, 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
- MG21-285
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1352
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209760
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Citation
Josiah Parker et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-08-23, 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-0001-020-1352 (November 13, 2026).
Honl B Magoffin
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
The undersigned would beg leave to represent to your honor
That at the last term of the Equity and Crimmonal Court for Fulton County that M M. Parker was fined $6000 Sixty Dollars for keeping a tipling house
The Evidence in the case showed that Mr J H Cayer had procured Tavern licens to keep a Tavern at Cayers Station in this county and that he had Employed the said M. M. Parker as Clerk and that house used as a Bar Room was detached and not adjoining the house used as a tavern and the Spiritous Liquors was sold with no thought or intentintion of transgressing the Law and as this is the first offince we humbly ask you to remit the Said fine the Said Parker is a youth and is now absent from the state in the army of the Southern Confedrasy
and if you in your Clemency will remit the fine you Will place the undersigned as well as the said M M Parker under [...] obligations to you
W Morris Shff
G. M. Willson C. M. H
Josiah Parker County Judge of Fulton County
A. D. Kingman, Atty
S W McDaniel D. Clerk of the Fulton Circuit & Equity CrCourts
John T Trent, clk Fulton County Court
Fulton Eq. Ct
$60 } Tipling
M. M Parker
Remission Issd
Remitted
B. M