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Petition

William Walsh to Beriah Magoffin

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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: MG21-401 to MG21-402
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1436
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FTP Identifier: 32209844

Mentioned in this document

People: Parker, Andrew J.; May, Andrew Jackson; Magoffin, Beriah; Garrett, Francis; Kendall, James L.; Barber, Jesse; Kendall, John W.; Sundys, Kendrick A.; Cox, Western W.; Mynheir, William; Walsh, William; Ward, William; [Unknown], [Unknown]
Organizations: Morgan Circuit Court
Dates: 1861-06; 1861-09-16

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William Walsh 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-0001-020-1436 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency
B. Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner would Respectfully represent that at the June Term 1861— of the Morgan Circuit Court he was tried and fined $5000 for giveing liquor to a Slave, He represents that he gave the slave but one dram, and did not know at the time that it was a violation of the laws, he is not a vender of Ardent spirits. by Licence or otherwise but having bought a small quantity, the slave asked him for some and he gave him a dram he is a poor man and not able to pay this fine and hopes your Excellency will remit it & he will ever pray &c

William Walsh

We the Undersigned would respectfully Suggest to your Excellency the propriety of remiting the above fine.

Wm Mynheir
John W Kendall
F Garrett
W W Cox
Wm Ward
J Barber
A J Parker
R. A. Sundys

A. J. May
J L Kendall

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Morgan Cir. Ct.
$50 } Giving liquor to a slave
W^m Walsh

Resp^t 12. Mos
Iss^dSept 16. 1861

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