Petition

H. J. Campbell et al. to Beriah Magofin

Place of Creation
Jessamine 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
MG17-61
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0141
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32208551

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Dates
1860-11-13
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Citation

H. J. Campbell et al. to Beriah Magofin, 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-0001-020-0141 (February 16, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Govenor of Kentucky Your Petitioners would represent that Thomas Clutter was fine the sum of Thirty Dollars for a Breach of the Peace Committed in Nicholasville he was tried before H J Campbell presiding Judge of the Jessamine County Court.

Your Petitioners would represent that Mr Clutter is an industrious energetic young man that he is dependent on his own labor for a support — that he is an orderly citizen — that he was fine on circumstances on [...] above — They would Petition your Excellency to remit said fine & will ever Petition —

H, J, Campbell P, J, J, C, C,
John ,B, Wallace
J.no J. McAfee
Jas McMurtry
M. T. Lowry c f c c
H. H Daniel
John Metcalf
James O. Henry
S. B. Saunders
W. R. Weber

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Jessamine Cir Ct
$30
Thos Clutter
Remission Issd
Nov 13. 1860

Remitted
B. M