Petition

Henry Stickrod et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Louisville, Jefferson 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
MG24-335 to MG24-336
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2208
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210613

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Henry Stickrod et al. 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-0001-020-2208 (November 14, 2026).

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Commonwealth of Kentucky
To His Excellency Berriah Magoffin
Govenor of Ky.
Sir,

We the undersigned ^know^ the petitioner Mr Ed Johnson do most respectfully petition your Excellency, to grant him a remittance a remittance of a fine assessed against his son, — for whom he was security, — in the Louisville city court. We state that Mr Johnson ins a cripple and is absolutely in need of his limited means to obtain a living for himself and family, and that he is now unable to pay the fine.

I can state that the petitioner has already payid some forty nine dollars, and 10 — /100 costs in the ^above^ case, and that his atty is a former petition, erred in stating his fines were some One Hundred and seventy five dollars, instead of seventy five.

Henry Stickrod
John Bell
W B Murphy
Wm S Murphy
J A B Churchill
Wm Kimble
Joseph Miller

Pat Hawes Atty
Jno Doup
W H Robinson
A Gilmore
[...] Ryange
J. W. Bryan
H. A. Olmstead
C. Olmstead

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See will hand me the other petition —
B. M.