John McCoy et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Fayette 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
- MG22-318
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1655
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210063
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- Dates
- 1862-02-27
Citation
John McCoy et al. 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-0001-020-1655 (November 13, 2026).
To his excellency B Maggoffin
Governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky
Your petitioner Philip Gormley respectfully shews to ^your^ exellency that he has recently been convicted in the Fayette Circuit Court of the offence of selling spiritous liquors by retail the prosecution is [malicious] it being a shut case legally termed Keeping a tipling house the proscaution being malicious & spitefull Your petitioner in extenuation says to your Excellency that he is poor and that he has an insanewife and sickley child the child only 6 months of age on which account he cannot leave his house to go about any employment or labour They requiring his contstant attention if — (Your petitioner is sent to prison and he has not money to pay the fine) his wife will have to be sent to the insane asylum and his child to the poor house a charge to the State at present he supports them by his own exertions he therefore hopes Your excellency will remit hisfine & the undersigned concur in the object of this petition.
John McCoy
We unite in this petition
[Dr and Ms] J B Payne
D. Mulligan
A. H. Robertson
B. H Allen
Dar
James B Beck
Frank. Waters
Geo. D Wharter
B B Parker city Clerk
W H Murphy City Marshal
C D Carr Pres Judge Fay. Co
B F Graves
J B Norton clk Fay Co Ct
D. F. Wolf dod do
C. T. Worley Mayor Lexington
Remitted
B. M.
Fayette Cir. Ct
$60. } Tipling
P. Gormley
Issd