Petition

B P Cissell et al. 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
MG21-330 to MG21-331
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1388
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FTP Identifier
32209796

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Dates
1861-07
1861-06
1861-09-10
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B P Cissell et al. 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-0001-020-1388 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Union County would represent that in the Month of July last John Thompson was arrested, tried and convicted for selling whisky on the day of the June election and fined forty Dollars for said offence and also twenty dollars for fighting on that day. Mr Thompson is a young man of good character, and has always a peaceable law abiding citizens, never before to our knowledge violated the law by fighting or otherwise and we believe that all which he did on this day was the result of one of those casualties to which the best of young men sometimes subject themselves. We would state there is little money in the country no sales of property can be affected except at ruinous sacrifices and if that $60 fine is permitted to be collected it will bankrupt Mr Thompson completely as it would take Property under ordinary circumstances worth near five hundred Dollars to pay it. We ask for him a remission of said fine & will ever pray &c

B P Cissell
John S. Gugen
Tho. S. Chapman
Lafayette Martin
M. R. Waller
J. S. Berry
J. S. Berry
E. Y. Cowgill
C. H. Buckman

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A Hanger

[Page 3]

George. J. Fenwick
Joseph. H. Butler
James. M. Girten
J. W. Manning
G. M. Hampton
C B Hager
J M. Cambon
Samuel [Daul]
S. B. Hughes
John Payne
Henry [duchy]
Thos J Beten
W T Hardy
J. G. Hughes
Thomas Pritchett
S T Welden
J M halman
C F Pike
James W Hardisty
John Thompson
Enoch H Floyd
P M Keary
B S Riney
J N Wather
Thomas A Wather
W T Fenwick
N. S. Hughes
S. L. Willett
John Payne Jr
James Roberts
J Wakefield
Charles Wize
Geo Fowler

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S R Hardisty
Joseph Hosman
W R yates
R S Spalding D Sheff U C
William L Smith
gorey h weding
Mark Smith
Philip Greenwell
R. A. Spalding

Union Cir Ct

Remitted
B. M

$40 } Liquor
$20. } Fighting
Jno Thompson

IssdSept 10. 1861