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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-0001-020-1796 MG23-160 to MG23-161

Henderson County, Kentucky Henderson County, Kentucky 1862-04-01 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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 the Honorable Beriah Magoffin Governor of the State of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Henderson County/in behalf of Mrs Hannah E. Grant beg leave to petition your Excellency to extend your executive clemency in remitting a fine imposed upon her at the December term of the Henderson Circuit Court, on an indictment for keeping a Tipling house, in Henderson County, for the sum of Sixty Dollars.

Your petitioners beg leave to represent to your Excellency that Mrs Grant is a widow without any means of support or income save a small gocery through which she has honestly endeavored to maintain herself and children. That it was entirely through ignorance that she became guilty of this misdemeanor, she says the persons who purchased liquor of her insisted on her selling them the liquor "by the drink" and told her that it was no violation of the law. if she would give them a drink of whiskey they would by a cigar at a price sufficient to indemnify her for the liquor. She being a woman and trusting and relying on the statements of these persons gave them a drink of liquor and sold them a cigar and for this the judgment was rendered

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against her.

A copy of the judgment is sent herewith. Henderson April 1st 1862.

L W. Trafton H N Fasheen W Rankin J. B. Hart. J Y Mayer Saml P Spalding Ira Delano Wm W. Catlin George Lyne Jas. H. Boyer R. M. Allin Alf. T. Taylor A. F. Parker H. W. Gobin W H Ladd J. M. Dodd S. Alexander R G Rouse sr Geo. Morrison James Atkinson B. Brashear Henry G Tucker --

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I hope Governor Mcgoffin will remit the above fine

F. H. Dallam Tho. D. Tilford M. S. Hancock Sol. S. Sizemore E. Y. Tapp. Jacob Held. W. M. Hancock George B Beverly J O Cheaney Juror P H LeRite D. Priest S, H, C James Marion Robt B. Cabell Archd Dixon Grant Green T W Rankin Dano Hart Jas Hill A S Nunn J. E. Ricketts P. A Blackwell W. E. Ladd John W Cornby A J Goode R. G. Beverley L C Dallam Milton Young Paschal Rouse John M Shaw H C Kerr W O Gordon Geo L Dixon Geo M. Vogel F. W. Reutlinger N D Terry A, N, Talbott C. W. Hutchins B B Williams W N Thompson Wm H Lewis

Respite 12 mo B M

Henderson Cir. Ct $60. } Tipling Mrs H. E Grant IssdApr 24. 1862