Petition

Henry Stickrod to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG24-86 to MG24-87
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2060
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FTP Identifier
32210468

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Dates
1861-04
1862-07-22
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Henry Stickrod to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-2060 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellincy Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Henry Stickrod states that at the April Term (1861-) of the City Court of Louisville he was fined $50, — for carrying concealed a pistol. He is a young man, and poor — His business was that of a Coal Boat hand between Louisville, and New Orleans. Since the suspension of such business, he has been unable to make more money than his necessaries of life demanded He had the pistol on a trip to New Orleans and upon his return home to Louisville, he carried it out in town with him, was arrested & fined. He did not attend the trial, was absent from the town city, or he could have shown circumstances, which would have acquitted him. It was a prevalent custom at the time, to go armed. He is unable to pay this fine & asks a remission

Respectfully
Henry Stickrod

I heard the trial of the above men mentioned case & know from an intimate knowledge of M Stickrod & his busines,s (at that time,) that it would be well enough if a remission was granted as petitioned for —

W, G, Reasor city atto
Jas. Croxton
J S. Hyatt
Wm H Saunders

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Respite 12 mo.
B M.

Louisville City Ct
Henry Stickrod
$50 } Weapons
IssdJuly 22d 1862