William M. Wells et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Caldwell County, Kentucky
- 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
- Box / Folder
- MG17A-174 to MG17A-175
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0091
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208501
- People
- Goeing, Alfred
- Brewer, Algernon S.
- Magoffin, Beriah
- White, Charles J.
- Ford, Elijah
- Griffith, Franklin W.
- White, George R.
- Dillingham, James Alexander
- Hester, James F.
- Woolf, James M.
- Hart, James P.
- Jackson, John N.
- Hart, Joseph, Sr.
- Cartwright, Milton A.
- Woosley, Moses W.
- Pemberton, Richard, Jr.
- Pemberton, Richard, Sr.
- Cash, Robert H.
- Wadlington, Thomas B.
- McAtee, William Franklin
- Holloway, William H.
- Wells, William M.
- Places
- Caldwell County, Kentucky
- Christian County, Kentucky
- Hopkins County, Kentucky
- Lyon County, Kentucky
- Trigg County, Kentucky
- Dates
- --11
Citation
William M. Wells et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 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-0001-020-0091 (November 12, 2026).
To His Excelency the Hon Beriah Magoffin Govenor of Kentucky Whereas Petition have been circulating in Counties of Caldwell Lyon Trigg Christian & Hopkins beseeching of your Ecxcelency to pardon or commute the punishment of Thos B Wadlington Convicted at the last nggned Citizens of Caldwell County believing the verdict of the Jury in the case of said Wadlington to be correct and that he deserves the penalty due to crime from our Knowledge of the facts most earnestly beseech of your excelency not to pardon or commute the punishment of said Wadlington and hereby enter our solemn protest against granting the prayer of said Petitions