Petition

James C. Brookover 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
MG22-209 to MG22-210
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1574
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32209982
People
Whitaker, Azro
Magoffin, Beriah
Bell, Charles
Mytinger, Charles
Hunt, Daniel P.
Christie, Ebenezer
Hieatt, Elisha D.
Whitaker, Emery
Wood, Ezekiel H.
Wise, Franklin
Bierbower, Frederick H.
Forrester, George
Sulser, George W.
Sulser, George William
Wormald, George
McAtee, Green H.
McCollough, Hugh
Mearns, Hugh
Bridges, James
Brookover, James C.
Chiles, James
Rains, James Henry
Poyntz, James P.
Garrison, James S.
Young, Jerry T.
Loughridge, John A.
Mitchell, John A.
Nelson, John A.
Taylor, John D.
Scott, John L.
Clarke, John Rogers
Leedy, John W. A.
Crofford, John W.
[Page], John
Whitaker, Nelson
Dryden, Noble
King, Reuben
Reed, Richard
Cochran, Robert A.
Bell, Robert
Downing, Robert
Nelson, Simon
Grier, Thomas E.
Farley, Thomas J.
Throop, Thomas J.
[Unknown], Thomas J.
Berry, Thomas Keith
Bolen, William
Crawford, William D.
[Merton], William F. A.
Loughridge, William H.
McDaniel, William
Watkins, William P.
Reese, William
[Unknown], [Unknown]
Places
Kentucky
Maysville, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Mason Circuit Court
Dates
1861-07
1861-12-09
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James C. Brookover 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-0001-020-1574 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah MagoffinGovenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

Your petitioner James C Brookover resident in the city Maysville and state of Kentuckystates that at the late July Term of the Mason Circuit Court he was fined by the Judge thereof the sum of fifty — dollars for selling on one occassion a glass of liquor to a slave of G H Mc'Atee — [...] McAtee had told your petitioner to let his slave have what ever he wanted provided he paid for it, and he had perchased and paid for under that parol license at different times some groceries;

Thomas Greer the Clerk of your petitioner sold to said slave a single glass of spirits without his consent or knowledge and against the general order to the Clerk not to sell or give to any slave whatever, liquor—; the sale was made by the Clerk against his order and was done by him in ignorance of the extemely stringant law upon the subject— The jury however under the influence of (as he believes) a very suspiciousJealousy and a too rigid construction of the law found him Guilty and he was accordingly fined: He has stated the facts and hopes you will find in them sufficient to authorize you to remit said fine, which he most respectfully prays you to do.

James, C, Brookover X

The undersigned Concur and unites with Mr Brookover in the above petition

JnoD Taylor

Thos J. Throop
Emery Whitaker
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Mason Cir. Ct
James C. Brookover's Petition.


$50. } Selling liquor

Sec. State:
If remitted please hand remitter to John L. Scott.

Remission
IssdDecr 9. 1861