Patrick Brice to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-1461

Document Genre

Petition

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

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

Item Location

MG22-34 to MG22-35

Place of Creation

Union County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

19 October 1861

Dates Mentioned

1861-10-19

1861-10-18

1861-10-26

Patrick Brice to Beriah Magoffin, 19 October 1861, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG22-34 to MG22-35, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1461, (accessed December 29, 2024).

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To the Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, your Petitioner Patrick Brice will state his case as follows -- That he has been a ditcher in Union County Ky for several years past and about two or three years ^ago^ he met with an accident by which he has become a cripple for life, after he had been cared for by friends, he was taken to the poore house of the County, supported by public charge this was repugnant to his fealings- he left this Charitable institution, determined to make a support for himself- he went to Union Town and set up a small shop of Oysters Sardines, Tobacco, Segars &c &c and during his opperations, he on a few occasions sold his little articles to his Customers, & treated them to a dram of whisky (to incourage Custom,) not believing that he was violating the laws of his Country for which he was Indicted, & by the Judgment of the last Union Circuit Court he was fined $60

He has so fare recovered from his wounds that he can make a living by his labor, and is again engaged in his former occupation, but has neither money or property & is unable to pay the fine; by his work he is barely able to support himself. He therefore respectfully asks of your excellency to remit s^d fine & in duty bound he will ever pray &c

Patrick Brice

Sworn to by Patrick Brice before me this 19th day of October A D 1861

D H Hughes Notary public
Union Co Ky=

Morganfield Union County Ky
October the 18^th 1861
Dr Sir

you have the petition of Patrick Brice before you. I believe the statements made therein are correct; he has been a cripple for about three years, he was in the poore house for sometime- I know nothing about about his opperations in Union Town- Though he is still a cripple, he has gone to ditching, is an honest and industrious Man and is O, K, though he is still a proper subject for the poore house, if let alone I believe he will make a living, & I have no hesitation in saying his case in a proper subject of Executive interposition your friend & obedient Servt

Hiram McElroy

The above is I believe substantially true, as stated by M^r Hiram M^cElroy.

R A Spalding
Ben. P. Cissell

Union Cir. Ct
$60 } Tipling
Pat Brice
Iss^d Oct 26^th 1861

Remitted
B. M.

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