William Carr 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
- MG22-128 to MG22-129
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1529
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209937
- People
- Kelly, Abner
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Myall, Edward
- Groves, Eldred M.
- Whitaker, Emery
- Allen, George T.
- Wells, George
- Johnson, H. S.
- Parry, Henry L.
- Jefferson, Henry S.
- Mitchell, J. Coburn
- Reed, J. L.
- Laytham, J.
- Bullock, James W.
- Burgess, James W.
- Taylor, John D.
- Clarke, John Rogers
- Smalls, John
- Wilson, John T.
- Watson, John W.
- Burgess, Joseph V.
- Howe, Joseph W.
- Coulter, Lewis C.
- Miller, Mitchel
- Latham, Phillip Edward
- Riggen, Richard T.
- Taylor, Robert T.
- Dimmitt, Sinclair
- Palmer, Thomas A.
- Throop, Thomas J.
- Carr, William
- Hall, [unknown]
- Wilkinson, [unknown]
- Dates
- 1861-11-06
Citation
William Carr 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-0001-020-1529 (November 12, 2026).
To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the state of Kentucky:
Your petitioner William Carrresident of the county of Mason ^states^ that in the month of June last, he had a personal difficulty with a man by the name of Hall of which the following is a true history; your petitioner keeps a tavern in the villiage of Mayslick, Hall had been severely wounded with a knife of one Wilkinson and he was taken to the house of your petitioner where he was kindly nursed and his wants supplied by him and his family until he had entirely recovered; Hall was a stout and athletic man able to work, but rather unwilling, and was upon several occasions solicited to settle and pay his Board, which he persistently refused, in June your petitioner called on him again, when he peremptorily refused to pay observing that he must not trouble him any more on that subject, and accompannied this declaration with two blows; — your petitioner is a weak and feeble man, excited by the refusal and Conduct of Hall
and smarting under the his most unprovoked attack and blows, he drew a pistol, seeing which Hall ran followed by your petitioner who discharged at him the pistol, fortunately not wounding; for this he was indicted and tried by the Mason Circuit Court and fined fifteen dollars; he is a peaceable, quiet and inoffensive citizen; and he respectfully prays you to remit said fine believing as he does that the circumstances under which the offence was committed authorize the exercise of executive Clemency;
Wm Carr
The undersigned Citizens of Mason County respectfully and cheerfully concur and unite in the prayer of the foregoing petition
Jos {Unclear} Howe
A Kelly —
James W. Burgess
R. T. Taylor
Edward Myall
T. A. Palmer
Mitchel Miller
John Smalls
Jas. W. Bullock
R. T. Riggen
Henry, S, Jefferson Dept Sheriff
George, Wells
Mason Cir. ct
$15. } Misdemeanor
Remitted
B M
Wm Carr
Issd