Petition

M. B. Pearce et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-09-12

Date of Creation
September 12, 1861
Place of Creation
New Castle, Henry 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
MG21-313
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1376
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32209784

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Dates
1861-09
1861-09-12
1862-04-24
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M. B. Pearce et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-09-12, 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-0001-020-1376 (November 13, 2026).

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To his excellency Beriah Magoffin
Govr. of the Comth of Ky

Your petitioners state that at the Sept Term 1861 of the Henry Circuit Court Jacob Sagresy was fined [Forty] Dollars for Keeping a Tippling House in the [County] of Henry=

We say to your honor that he is an honest man disabled from labor by a chronic disease which renders him almost helpless. he has a large family of small Children. And scarcely any means at all to obtain for them, a support-

For the reasons above stated, And in view of the general pecuniary embarassment of the Country We cheerfully ask your [honor] to interpose Your executive power. and [remit] the fine

New Castle Ky. Sept. 12th 1861 —

M. B. Pearce
W D OWEN Shriff
B Allen D. S. H. C
W. J. Thomas D. Clerk
J. M. Jones Jailor H. C
J. S. Drane
E P Thomas W D Clerk

E. P. Thomas Clerk H. C

P U Major Esqr.
Dear Sir

Will you oblige me by delivering this petition [...] if consistent with your feelings. A word of favor I know will be kindly remembered by Mr. Sagresy-

Truly Yors
M B Pearce

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Henry Cir. Ct

Respite 12 Mo
B, M

$40 } Tipling
Jacob Sagresy

IssdApr 24. 1862