Robert W. Lowery, Sr. to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-0716

Document Genre

Petition

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG19-115 to MG19-116

Place of Creation

Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

13 February 1859

Dates Mentioned

1859-09-13

1859-07

1859-09-17

1861-02-27

--09-17

Robert W. Lowery, Sr. to Beriah Magoffin, 13 February 1859, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG19-115 to MG19-116, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0716, (accessed April 25, 2024).

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Harrodsburg Ky
Sept- 13- 1859
To His Excellency
The Govenor of Kentucky-

Your Petitioner Robt W Lowery senior would state that at the July Term 1859 ^of Mercer Circuit Court^ he was by a Jury found guilty of the offense of Keeping a Tippling House & Judgment rendered against him for sixty dollars & costs. He states that he opened a Tavern in the Town of Harrodsburg and in said Tavern House sold spiritous liquors, before he obtained license to keep Tavern. He sold & permitted the spiritous liquors to be sold under the belief & impression that he had a right to do so & that the obtention of license at the next regular court would cover this previous selling_ That he did obtain the License to keep a Tavern in the same home & at the same place when the ardent spirits were sold from the proper court. that in the previous he acted innocently & ignorantly, had no intention a such to evade the Law, & am only what he believe he had the right to do & obtain & paid ^for^ the License under the belief that he was thereby complying with the Law. Wherefor he prays that the fine be remitted.

R. W. Lowery Sr

Sworn to before me by R W Lowery Sr Sept 13_ 1859
M L Garnett J. P. M. C

We concur in the prayer of the foregoing petition

E. J. Polk
C S Abell
C. C. Smedley.
Ben C Allin
B. C. Frapnale
J A Lillards
Tho Allen
Geo. W. Tompkins
Phil. B Thompson
Mercer Curcuit Court
$60 } Tipling
R. W. Lowery
Issued Sept. 17. 1859

Remitted
B. M.
Iss^d Feby 27. 1861

Respite 8 months
B. Magoffin
Respite iss^d Sept 17

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