Petition

J. J. Briant to Beriah Magoffin

1860-09

Date of Creation
September 1860
Place of Creation
Edmonson 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
MG17-29 to MG17-30
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0120
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FTP Identifier
32208530

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Dates
--09
1860-09
1860-11-08
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J. J. Briant to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-09, 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-0001-020-0120 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency
B Magoffin Governor of Kentucky.

The undersigned represents to yr. Excellency, that at the late September Term of the Edmonson Equity & Criminal Court, he was fined fifity Dollars, under an Indictment for an assault upon one Joseph Lewis. He represents that the verdict was founded alone upon the evidence of the family of said Lewis. He says he is poor, that the fine is unjust and should not be collected — He prays that said fine be remitted.
Sept 1860

J J Briant

The undersigned unite with the petitioner James Bryant and ask that the fine referred to be remitted, the reasons therefore in our judgment being sufficient

Names
Wm Allen
Stanford Mitchell
Luther Carpenter
N. P. Dillingham
Wm L, Smith
James M Tucker
Moses Shobe
Henry Smith

Jas Graham
H Jorden
Samuel Stone
W M Patterson
S, W, Combs
John Ford
Jaret mitchell

[Page 2] Elijah Kinser
John Hudson
Jacob. L, Shobe
James B Carter
George B Ewing
Jackson Larnee
Henry Emerson
Thos,, H,, Smith
Geo Wright
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Edmonson Cir. ct
Remitted
B. M.
$50 } Assault
J J Briant
IssdNov 8. 1860