Petition

John Scott et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG4-489 to MG4-489A
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-017-0481
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32207750

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Dates
1862-06-09
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John Scott et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-017-0481 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency Honorable Beriah Magoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, whereas there is a vacancy in the office of Justice of the Peace in the 5th ^fifth^ Justice's district in Metcalfe County caused By the Resignation of B. F. Hiser Esqr.

we the undersigned would therefore petition your Excellency to appoint Thos. G. Sheffitt to fill said Vacancy untill the next Election Believing him to Be a suitable Man to fill said office.

Believing he would ^give^ general satisfaction to all conserned.

John Scott
J. B. Cassady
Waddy Thompson
Smith Read
John Kock
H R Davis
David Faulkner
J A Fag
J B Porter
C J Porter
Wm B Morris
S C Morris
John Jewel, sen
B Bass
J Pegle
Wm H Porter
A J Robertson
R Robertson
Wm S. Houk

C Sandridge
J Hiser
W H Williams
M Williams
J. M. Williams
J. Bierd
E Jewel
T. Flint
A [Q] Foreman
James g Lee
H T Malone
J M Baird
J Wright
B Prewitt
B D Porter
Luter Gentry
jesse Burton
S. R. Edwards

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S. S. Murray
John C Carter
W. T. Evans
Andrew Cage
A. A. Ferguson
James B. Brown
John.. L. Wilcoxson
J. H. Read

Tho E Newnan
John A Jewel
P G Snider
E. C. Murray
S R Higgason
John U Young
Jas. A. Thompson
Wm H Nunn
M.. D. Higgason

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Metcalfe Co
J. P.
Dist No 5
App June 9. 1862