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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-1068 MG20-166

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To His Excellency The Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Isaac Rumsay states that he was this day fined $50, -- in the Lexington city court for carrying a pistol or rather he confessed Judgt for that amount, as he had in fact carried the pistol, He states that he believed owing to the state of the country & the apprehension growing out of it that he was justified in carrying a pistol. & so far as he knows others took the same view. He prays your Excellency to release him from so much of the fine as by law you can

He is unable to pay it, he is poor & has a wife to support by his trade as a wagonmaker. It is the first time he ever was arraigned or fined

Isaac, Rumsey

Attest Jno Keiser

Sworn to by Isaac Rumsey this 9th day of May 1861

L. Gibbons J P.

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The undersigned respictfully request your Excellency to remit the fine v Rumsy

G W Grant R H Graves G A Shely E D Burke J C Graves Ald Collins Wm. S. Warham H. G. Fuller James M Graves W F White E W Hukel N P True A Alexander I. N. Shepperd B N Graves Chas J. Thomas Jn Keiser Jas. C. Morris Bryan H Allen City attorney Robt J Breckinridge Parker Craig J. H. Harrison J. M. Taylor Oliver P. Beard thomas Michals John G. Kiser Enoch Clark & son W H Fox S. Spragens C Wheatly. B C, Wood R Pindell Thos. W. Bullock R H. Townsend Wm M Chesney J B. Cooper Joseph George C. D. Carr J. W. Shropshire James B Beck

Lexington Cir. Ct Respite 12 mo B. M $50 } Recog Weapons Isaac Rumsey Issd May 13.th 1861