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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-0001-020-1893 MG23-315 to MG23-316

Mercer County, Kentucky Mercer County, Kentucky 1862-05-13 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 "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 Exelency the Govoner of Kentucky

Isaac Paul your Petitioner would Respectfully represent that at the October Term 1858 of the Mercer Circuit Court a Judgment was recovered in the name of the Commonwealth against him for Sixty dollars fine for keeping a Tipling House that Execution has issued for said debt and costs amounting to Eight dollars and five cents that this affiant is a poor man with a family of Eight children to provide for and is actually unable to pay said fine He respectfully prays that executive Clemency may be extended to him and that your Exelency will remit Said fine &c

Isaac Paul

Mercer County sct

Isaac Paul this day made oath to the statements above petition 13 May 1862

O J Poston

We join in the prayer of the above petitioner

S S McFatridge O S Poston Geo. O. Hernden S. McBrayer James D Hawkins A D Haynes ThoAllen Ben. C. Nimrod Harris

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Mercer Cir Ct $60 } Tipling Issac G Paul Remission IssdMay 26 1862