J. C. Applegate et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1862-05-23
- Date of Creation
- May 23, 1862
- Place of Creation
- Georgetown, Scott 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
- MG23-354 to MG23-355
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1919
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210327
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Citation
J. C. Applegate et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-05-23, 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-0001-020-1919 (November 14, 2026).
Georgetown Ky
To his Excellency
Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky
The undersigned citizens of Scott county would respectfully represent to your favorable notice the petitioner H W Chiles — and state that he has been fined Thirty dollars in these cases in the Scott circuit court for liquor sold at his bar by a black man in his employ as waiter &c. to other blacks — The cases stand on the Docket Nos 271-272 & 273 — Also in the cases before the Town judge of Georgetown — in two cases for the same offences — the sum of fifty Dollars in each case, As Mr Chiles is a poor man — and the costs from which he has no relief is a considerable buden to him we would
most respectfully petition your excellency to remit all of said fines that you can consistently do —
J. C. Applegate
H C White
J. E. Applegate
Bat T Thompson
Wm A Lindsay
C H Jenkins
Wm C White
J. J. Cantrell. Sheriff
James Patton
T. N. Finnell
Webb Ress
Ge Jeffords
J E Cromwell
H Y [Cuyarns]
L C Robards
Jas. Harrison
L, C, Stephens
C O Kenney
J R Meryman
Geo. E. Prewitt
A W Forwood
E M Blackburn
Lewis Vest
J G Craddock
Jno R. Moreland
H. Clay Shelton
W Burns
J. L. Lemon
John E Thewitt
John S. M. Lemon
P. Thomas
J. C. Smith
George W Offutt
James Y Kelly
Robert A White
A B Barkey
E. Kelley
Eli Lucas
T. P. Nutter
J Morrison
J
J. W McGoffin
D B Crumbaugh
A Thomas
Wm W Abbott
W S Darnaby
G W Finnell
Thos W Hughes
Saml W. Thompson
P. Thomson
W H Story
C. Vest
S P. Thomson
A Duvall
Remitted
B. M.
Scott Cir Ct
$30 3 cases } liquor
Geo. Town Po. Ct
$50 2 cases } liquor
H W Chiles
Iss