Correspondence

James Hasson to Beriah Magoffin

Document Genre
Correspondence
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
MG22-243
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1597
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210005
People
Magoffin, Beriah
Hessen, James
Scott, John L.
Places
Maysville, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Mason Circuit Court
Dates
1861-12-09
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James Hasson 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-0001-020-1597 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

Your petitioner James Hasson states that at the April Term of the Mason Circuit Court 1861 he was fined by said Court the sum of twenty dollars for selling liquor on the Fair Ground in said County —

To the Indictment therefore, he plead guilty but at the time he committed the offense he did not know the same was forbidden by law — He is poor, having a family to support and driving a Dray in the City of Maysville for livelihood, the payment of the fine would be a great hardship upon him and detract in these times greatly from his means of support, he most respectfully prays you to remit said fine its infliction being indeed being to him a salutary admonition for the future to beware

James Hasson

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Mason Cir. Ct
James Hasson's Petition,

Respite 12 mo
B. M

$20. } selling liquor

Sec. State:

If remitted, please hand remitter to
John L. Scott.

IssdDecr 9. 1861