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 November 11, 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-0001-020-1104 MG20-212

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To the Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned, your petitioners state that John O'Brien was indicted in the Scott Circuit Court, for unlawfully selling liquor; was found guilty at the August term and fined $60 in default of payment of which he was sent to jail and is now in confinement.

The facts of the case, as the undersigned are informed, are briefly these: O'Brien was at work on a turn pike road, and a friend of his applied to him to sell him a quart of whiskey. He refused to sell, but gave the man the liquor. Sometime afterward the man insisted on paying for it and threw down a dime and left. This was the whole offense. He is a poor man with a family of small children who depend upon his daily labor for support, and who would actually suffer for want of the necessaries of life, if his confinement is continued.

It is therefore hoped that as much of the punishment as is within the power of the executive, be remitted

Beverly Nelson Geo W Bates J E Gregg E F Cantrill B T Boswell S. T. Gano J C Applegate Saml W Thompson C D Smith Neersy Nutter John F Cantrill Alex Carrick Wm Nutter Ed Sway Daniel Gano Jas, E, Enison Bat T Thompson David Lay James W Samuell Joshua Talbott John Beatty

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David Thomson Jno M Glinn S. Gano Jno. J. Moore A Bards Jno K Houston John T Griffith Wm H, Salyers John W Bradly Jr George W Offutt L Sharp A B Barkly B. F. Williams Simeon Neale Wm. F Moss. Ben F. Bradley Geo, W, Johnson L B Offutt J. S. Lindsey S. S. C F, A, Ballenger M. S. Dehoney A O David E. B. Dewesee J. F. Payne B F Elliott A Mallory. B T M Boyd W, Samuell S R Thomson Geo. E. Prewitt Jonathan Hedger James Y. Kelly Samuel N Green William R Webb A. S. Bradley R C Adams Jas M Shepard M Polk Simon Griffen J. F. Robinson Wm A Lindsay W, C, Graves P Rankins J F Warren S Y Keene G, Keene

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Scott Cir. Ct

Remitted B. M.

$60. } Tipling Jno. OBrien IssdMay 22d 1861