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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-0001-020-2222 MG24-352

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Govr of Kentucky

Your petitioner William McPeek would respectfully represent that he ws fined in the city court on 6th March 1860, Sixty dollars for keeping a Tippling house in Louisville under the following circumstances towit He keeps a Grocery store on street connected with a feed store & supplies the neighborhood with all articles, in either line, A Young man by the name of Martin Summers a hack driver, was in the habit of getting provender for his horses there and was frequently at his store when yr petitioner would treat him, because of his patronage, he however became troublesome & was driven from the premises some time last fall ^Autumn,^ & since thene has shown great resentment to the petitioner, he was the only witness examined on the trial, & swore that he had bought & payed for whiskey several times, this statement was wholly unexpected as he had on several occasions in the presence of the petitioner and others, said that he could not swear that he ever bought liquor from the petitioner, under the belief that he would not make a statement that would convict the Deft, he had no witnesses subpoenad in his behalf or to discredit the witness for te comth therefore this verdict, as unexpected as it ^is^ entirely unjust was rendered

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We theUnless yr Excellency will interpose to relieve your petitioner from this fine by remitting it he will be subjected to great loss which he at present can not well bear, he has ever borne a fair character among his acquaintances for correctness in dealing and good deportment in all the walks of life with these considerations & the following recommendations to yr favor he humbly prays yr Excellency to remit his fine & relieve him from theis great harm with great respect yr petitioner will ever pray &c

RespW McPeek

We of the Jury who tried the case referred to above also pray yr Excellency to remit his fine

Respectfully yr obt servt

Val. Thomas W H McCay D Lincoln R. H. Hernstadt J. Browder W E Cary H Gealding D Forsyth C C Henry James Kirkpatrick William R Rey

We the neighbors & friends of the petitioner join in the prayer to yr Excellency to remit petition ^his^ fine

with great respect yr obt servt

Jno B McHenir & Son H C Thomas John W Bowser W Clark Price Jr W K Thomas Fred A. Kaye W P. Boone C D Pennebaker John Brown J. R. Brown W N Brown W. M Brown Charles Glass F. W. Quast Wm Kaye sr H. H. Sale A V Brewer J R Parrent

A Majority of the Jury. The chief of Police & other officers of the city and several highly respectable citizens having signed this Petition. I unite with them Geo. W Johnston.