<title type="main">J. E. Cooper et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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-0001-020-1204 MG21-43

1861-06-13 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.

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To his Excellency Gov B McGoffin your Humble Petitioner Julius McClerg Most Humbly & Respectfully reprsents & States that at the last February Term of the Rowan Circuit Court that He was fined the sum of Sixty Dollars for Keeping a Tipling House. and that he is a poor Man and is now confined in the County Jail or Rowan County as owing to the hard times and Scarcity of Monetary arrangements in our old Commonwealth that it is a Matter of impossibility to raise said sum of $6000 The undersigned Petitions Most respectfully States that said McClerg is a very Poor Man and has nothing on Gods Green earth to pay said fine of $6000 and unless he gets relief by the Power Vested in you he will be imperiously confined in said Jail until said fine is extinguished by his imprisonment

We the undersigned signed Petitioners therefore ask & pray that said fine of $6000 be remitted & that said Julius McClerg be hence released from the payment of the same & we will forever pray &c

yours Respectfully June 13th 1861

J. E. Cooper James W, Johnson S, R, C, E, H, Logan clk. A Keetter H. R Myers J H Steele M D Dixon Clark

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J A Hawkers J. S. Davis T M Likes Francis Grant M K Hawson W. R Norris W, W, Richard J, A, Goodman John N. McIntire G, M, Page J. B. McIntire Thomas Dengdan Nathaniel Ridiel Isaac Riggeswell John Riddele O S Robertson C Brown J Myers Samuel Allen Thomas Riely G W Cassity Nathaniel White Davis Cornett John Scott J W Richards H M Logan O H Trumbo John Evans Fielding Cooper James A Thomas H G Logan William Garves John Darnal J,, P,, Nelson C B Nelson John Ingrham T J Tromb J E Johnson J P

John Hargis atto. for Rowan Co with a request to remit the same, as it is running the Co to Expense & does no body any profit --

Remission IssdJune 24 1861