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Petition

Alexander B. Cartwright et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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-184 to MG17A-185
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0096
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FTP Identifier: 32208506

Mentioned in this document

People: Cartwright, Alexander B.; Castleberry, Benjamin F.; Magoffin, Beriah; Young, Drury C.; McConnell, Francis W.; Dillingham, George W.; Jones, James D.; McConnell, James D.; Landrum, James F.; McConnell, James G.; Boyd, James H.; Hilliard, James J.; Woodall, James S.; Young, James; Crider, John; McConnell, John D.; Lewis, John; Stallins, John M.; Fralick, John T.; Hale, Joseph B.; Jones, Joseph; Bumpass, Madison G.; Cartwright, Milton A.; Webber, Peter; McConnell, Robert Lee; McConnell, Rufus A.; Wadlington, Thomas B.; Fralick, Thomas J.; Hillyard, Thomas L.; Williamson, Thomas R.; Barnes, William; Harper, William R.; Scott, William Thompson; Dillingham, William Y.
Places: Caldwell County, Kentucky; Christian County, Kentucky; Hopkins County, Kentucky; Lyon County, Kentucky; Trigg County, Kentucky
Organizations: Caldwell Circuit Court; Commonwealth of Kentucky
Dates: --11

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Alexander B. Cartwright 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-0001-020-0096 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency the Hon" Beriah Magoffin Governeur of Kentucky

Whereas Petition have been circulated in the Counties of Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg, Christian & Hopkins beseeching of your Excellency to pardon or commute the Punishment of Thos, B. Wadlington convicted at the last November term of the Caldwell Circuit Court of the murder of Morton A. Cartwright, we the undersigned Citizen 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 excellency not to pardon or commute the punishment of said Wadlington and hereby enter our Solemn protest against granting the prayer of the Petition.