R. M. Moore to Beriah Magoffin
1861-12-09
- Date of Creation
- December 9, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Louisville, Jefferson 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
- MG22-220 to MG22-221
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1580
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209988
- People
- Dubourg, A.
- Borie, Alfred
- Drane, Benjamin
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Davis, C.
- Borie, Charles
- Gibbs, Edmund
- Waterhouse, Elvira B.
- Johnston, George W.
- Zane, Hamden
- Brown, J. T. S.
- Wells, James M.
- Waterhouse, James
- Ashcraft, John
- Baxter, John G.
- Laporte, Margeret
- Richardson, Martin H.
- Paul, Michael J.
- Stratton, Oliver H.
- Moore, Richard M.
- Mayfield, W. N.
- Peto, William J.
- Places
- Louisville, Kentucky
Citation
R. M. Moore to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-12-09, 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-0001-020-1580 (November 12, 2026).
Louis
Louisville Ky
To His Excellency
Gov B. Magoffin,
Dear Sir,
I have known Mr W. J. Peto. for the last thirteen years, and have never known him to have been in a difficulty before: I having served nine years in the police Department of this city and know him to be a good and law abiding citizen, any favor you may extend to him, will be thankfully received and duly reciprocated, he is all O.K-
Your humble Servent
R. M. Moore
It is true as stated in Petition that many persons in this city carry concealed weapons; & I believe it is also true that Petitioner is in a verry Moderate circumstances, I know him to be a civil quiet man & good citizen
Geo. W. Johnston
O H Strattan Clk C C L
Respite 12 Mo
B. M
Louisville City Ct
$10 } — Assault
$50 } — Weapons
Wm J Peto
Issd
To his Excelency
B. Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Your Petioner Wm J. Peto would most Respectfully State to your exelency that he was fined by a Jury of the city Court of Louisville upon a charge of assault and battery upon one A. Dubourg the sum of $1000 & costs of said court also was fined by a Jury of said court the sum of $5000 for carrying a concealed deadly weapon, and would respectfully ask your excelency to remit said fines as he considers himself justifiable in making the assault having been aggravated by a good and sufficient cause by words &c from said Dubourg and thinks that under the present troubles of the Country he has a right to carry some weapon of defense and would Therefore Respectfully request your Exelency to remit said fines as it is a custom with almost every man in this city to carry some weapon of defence and further that I am a poor man and wholly unable
at this time to pay the same having a family to support
Respectfully
Yours
W.m J. Peto.
We the undersigned heartily join in the above request and hope that his Excelency B. Magoffin will remit the above and foregoing mentioned fines imposed upon said Petitioner — Wm J Peto