Petition

Isaac Paul to Beriah Magoffin

1862-05-13

Date of Creation
May 13, 1862
Place of Creation
Mercer 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
MG23-315 to MG23-316
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1893
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210301

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Dates
1858-10
1862-05-13
1862-05-26
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Citation

Isaac Paul to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-05-13, 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-0001-020-1893 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Exelency the Govoner of Kentucky

Isaac Paul your Petitioner would Respectfully represent that at the October Term 1858 of the Mercer Circuit Court a Judgment was recovered in the name of the Commonwealth against him for Sixty dollars fine for keeping a Tipling House that Execution has issued for said debt and costs amounting to Eight dollars and five cents that this affiant is a poor man with a family of Eight children to provide for and is actually unable to pay said fine He respectfully prays that executive Clemency may be extended to him and that your Exelency will remit Said fine &c

Isaac Paul

Mercer County sct

Isaac Paul this day made oath to the statements above petition
13 May 1862

O J Poston

We join in the prayer of the above petitioner

S S McFatridge

O S Poston
Geo. O. Hernden
S. McBrayer
James D Hawkins
A D Haynes
ThoAllen
Ben. C. [...]
Nimrod Harris

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Mercer Cir Ct
$60 } Tipling
Issac G Paul
Remission IssdMay 26 1862