Thomas Craycraft to Beriah Magoffin

KYR-0001-020-1953.xml

Accession Number

KYR-0001-020-1953

Document Genre

Petition

Repository

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

MG23-402 to MG23-403

Place of Creation

Washington County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

16 June 1862

Dates Mentioned

1861-10

1862-04

1862-06-16

To his Excellency B MaGoffin
Governor of Kentucky —

Your Petitioner Thomas Craycraft would respectfully represent that H C Miller being indicted in the Nelson Circuit for wounding one Bryant Shumate and required to give bond for his appearance in $1000 Your petitioner became his bond — that the case being called at the Oct term 1861 and Miller not appearing the bond was forfeited and a summons thereon awarded which was executed on your petitioner but not on Miller and returned for trial of the April term 1862.

He and Miller both lived in Washington county but about 14 miles apart He knew Miller had not absconded and believed the summons executed on him and that he would attend and defend the summons and afterwards learned with surprise that he had not and that judgement for the $1000 had gone against your petitioner alone which he had since been compelled to replevy — Miller is still at his home in Washington County He has ascertained and now states that when said forfeiture was made Miller was at home confined to bed by sickness and therefore unavoidably — absent and could have easily made that fact appear so as to prevent the
judgment if said summons had been served upon him — Owing to the distance of your petitioners residence from Millers he did not learn of ^him^ having been sick when the forfeiture occured until after the t~~erm~~ime of which judgement was rendered against him and he was moreover [lulled] by the facts he has stated from making inquiry or defence till it was too late to do so —

Whereupon he prays a remission of said judgment —

Thomas Craycraft

Sworn to by Thomas Craycraft before me — June 16 1862 —

W R Casey J P W C

The undersigned citizens of Washington county, believeing the facts true as stated in the foregoing petition and that the case is one which appeals to the clemency of the Executive unite in the prayer for a remission of the judgments — June 16 1862

C. R. Craycraft
R. P. Miles
S, W, Gill
J. H. [Rosson]
E. B. Pope
Jas H. Casey
Tho^s J Badgett
S. E. Fowler
Logan J. Bosley
L,, H,, Cea
P C Broyles
D. H. Spears
W R Casey
Zack Pope
J S Simms
J. J. [...]
R. J. Simms
W^m J. Robertson
J. W. Reinhart
Geo. D. Robertson
A Barnett
R S Peters
J P. Barbour
William Dennis
G W. Cornish
Dan O Police
L [Hanth]
James Green
S P Wharton
H. L. M^cElroy,
W. F. Spalding
Tho^s F M^cIntire C W C
Richard Smith
John M^cIntire
B. F. Wilson
[...][...]
[W^m]. Blackwell
C. H. [Shaunty]
E E. Green
John Marks
Robert Borders
B E [Shutzery]
W^m L Million
John E Clements
R C M^cThorn
T G Simms
U. S. Litsey
B W Linton
Jas Hayes
W^m Meeks
R Montgomery
R M Ozbourn
[Stith John]
T R Blandford
Daniel Kelly
Thos W, Simms
John H Short
Thomas Higdon
Michael Nane
B Montgomery
[...] Baker
W^m C Hilton
Henry. B. Moore
R. W. Thompson
Dan^l M^cClean
George Shindler
Thos. H Cusick
W^m Shehan
W^m Grigsby
B B Mason
H Rennart
J W Montgomery
A. D. Crouch
R. W. Wright
Deven White
John N White
H P Cambron
W^m P Montgomery
Edward Carrico
J. M. oBryan

M R Hardin
L R Thurman
Rich^d J Browne
L B Casey
A G Bevill
Thomas M^cShane
Jas Manatta
J. H. Underwood
J B Knott
C. J. Cunningham
B. J. James
William Ray
William M Edwards
Hugh M^cElroy
Joseph J Casey
George Borders
G W Taylor
Stephen C. Browne
Milton Rogers
E K Smith
J P Calhoun
Thomas Y Fenwich
Jas Sheay
Joseph Montgomery
J. S. Steenbergen
Jonathan Edwards
Wm Ohara
James E Kidwell
D. J. Mitchell
A Graham Canary
Michael Flynn
peter Shea
James Shea
W F Hall
T J. Underwood
W H Pope
Basil Logsdon
Stephen B L[...]
Alsop Rockling
Ben Hayden
Smith Riley
Uriah Shewmaker
R Simms
E. P. OBryan
Geo Clements
John H Parrott
Thomas Creager
C. C. Cambron
Ja^s E Redding
Thos. J. Montgomery
Charles Creager
John Simms
Peter Brown
J F Kimberlin
A [M^cElroy]
Tho^s Yates
L L Moore. J
Robert Reed
John H Milton
Edward. D. Kelly
C R Thompson
C H Polin
Henry Brown
J. W[Powll]
John M Warren
John. W. Kelly
J H Moffett
R. S. Knott
Walter [...]
J A Hayden
T T Philips
Joseph Blandford
G. J. Bosley
Nat Wright
Major Burnett
James Ferrell
Henry Oneal
Willam Pile

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