Petition

James Keeling et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1862-02-08

Date of Creation
February 8, 1862
Place of Creation
Washington 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
MG22-375 to MG22-376
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1690
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FTP Identifier
32210098

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Dates
1862-02-08
1862-02-08
1862-02-14
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James Keeling et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-02-08, 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-0001-020-1690 (January 24, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of Ky

Your petitioners James Keeling and other citizens of Washington County represent that in a prosecution for breach of the peace before F H [Chasser] Esq a justice of the peace of Washington County he was adjudged to pay a fine of $17.50/100 and costs for which an execution is in the hands of Joseph Reddicks a constable — the offe^n^ce charged was disorderly conduct at the house of Joseph Hall his brother in law who caused his prosecution but who is now reconciled with him — Said Keeling is a very poor young man —, and not now having disipated is of ordinary good conduct, and is now the only reliance for attention and protection of his father and Mother, the former having been for years entirely confined to bed by age and disease — Your petitioners respectfully ask a remission of said fine — Feby 8. 1862

James ^his X mark^ Keeling

Sworn to by James Keeling before me Feby 8. 1862

R S Peters, Clk

We join in the prayer of the above petition regarding the remission of the fine a proper act of Executive Clemency —

R H Browne
W, G,, Moffett

M R Hardin
R S Peters
J P Barbour

[Page 2] C. R Craycroft
Jas P Calhoun
Thos J Badgett
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Washington J. P.
Remitted
B. M
$17.50/100 } Breach
Jas Keeling
IssdFeby 14. 1862