Petition

Martin Noe to Beriah Magoffin

1862-05-30

Date of Creation
May 30, 1862
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
MG23-369
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1931
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FTP Identifier
32210339

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Dates
1860
1862-05-30
1862-06-09
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Martin Noe to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-05-30, 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-0001-020-1931 (November 13, 2026).

[Page 1]

To his Excellency Beriah Magoff Esq
Gov of Kentucky

Your petitioner would state that some time in the year 1860 — he got on a little bender as is said and happened to be seen and heard by one "Johnson Adams" a Justice of the peace in and for Magoffin County and that said Johnson Adams without process or ceremony fined your petitioner. $2.50 fine 120 ^cost^ wherefore he asks your excellency to remit the said fine, as he seldom drinks too much and does not swear often — that the said Adams has taken peculiar delight to exercise his high prerogative, over a class of poor men in this county and has sought to oppress many, Wherefore he prays for Executive Clemency

Martin Noe,

May 30th 1862,

We the undersigned Join in the foregoing petition and ask as above,

G W Wheeler
Isaac Pucket
Johnson Marshel
Thomas Prater
Mark Whitake
James Ward
[Jas W. Dane]
Samuel Salyer
Jas Minix
J W Haltam
John Samuels

[Page 2]

Magoffin Co J.P.
$2.50 } Breach
Martin Noe
Remission Issd
June 9. 1862