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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-0001-020-1655 MG22-318

Fayette County, Kentucky Fayette County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his excellency B Maggoffin Governor of the commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner Philip Gormley respectfully shews to ^your^ exellency that he has recently been convicted in the Fayette Circuit Court of the offence of selling spiritous liquors by retail the prosecution is malicious it being a shut case legally termed Keeping a tipling house the proscaution being malicious & spitefull Your petitioner in extenuation says to your Excellency that he is poor and that he has an insanewife and sickley child the child only 6 months of age on which account he cannot leave his house to go about any employment or labour They requiring his contstant attention if -- (Your petitioner is sent to prison and he has not money to pay the fine) his wife will have to be sent to the insane asylum and his child to the poor house a charge to the State at present he supports them by his own exertions he therefore hopes Your excellency will remit hisfine & the undersigned concur in the object of this petition.

John McCoy We unite in this petition Dr and Ms J B Payne D. Mulligan A. H. Robertson B. H Allen Dar James B Beck Frank. Waters Geo. D Wharter B B Parker city Clerk W H Murphy City Marshal C D Carr Pres Judge Fay. Co B F Graves J B Norton clk Fay Co Ct

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R. Marsh, Member City Council, D. F. Wolf dod do C. T. Worley Mayor Lexington

Remitted B. M.

Fayette Cir. Ct $60. } Tipling P. Gormley IssdFeby 27, 1862