Petition

C. W. Milliken et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1862-03-10

Date of Creation
March 10, 1862
Place of Creation
Franklin, Simpson 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
MG23-8
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1705
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32210113

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1862-03-10
1861-03
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C. W. Milliken et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-03-10, 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-0001-020-1705 (February 16, 2026).

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Franklin Ky March 10th 1862
To hHis Excelency B Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned, Your petitioners would respectfully represent to your Excelency that at the March Term 1861 of the Simpson Equity & Criminal Court one John Alexander of Franklin a grocer, was Indcted for Selling Spirituous liquors to the Slave of another without permissiones & also for permitting Slaves to Congregate about his Grocery house & at the September Term of said Court Said Alexander was tried & found guilty, & fined in each case the sum of $20.00 We would respectfully represent that the Said fines are yet unpaid. & That Alexander is a man of limited means, having the greater portion of his effects in a family grocery, & That he has been Sick almost the entire winter being unable to attend to business & during which time the Soldiers have broken into his said Grocery taking therefrom Several hundred dollars worth of goods. We therefore represent him as an individual worthy your Executive Clemancy & pray that you may remit said fines, We will ever pray

J J LaRue
R. F. Milliken

C. W. Milliken
S Mercer
R L Louthat

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A G Jones
E H. Hendrick
J. P. Hutchings
Samuel Butler
T H Butler
N. B. Suddarth
T. C. Murphy
Alexander farmer
G. P. Tidwell
T. J.Whitesells
O W. Grade Sheriff
J, C Bell
Wm W, Bush
A Karr
W G Hudson
Volney S,, Bissreau
A. B. Cooksey,
J, B, McClean

Enoch Powell
Theo. Robey
R, M, Green
N B, Tannehill
John B Mayes
J W Robey
C. L. Clarke (B L. Clarke brother of)

Simpson Eq. & C. Ct

$20 2 cases } Liquor
Jno. Alexander
Respd 12 mo.
IssdApr. 24. 1862