Petition

B. N. Dawson et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1860-12-17

Date of Creation
December 17, 1860
Place of Creation
Princeton, 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
MG17-204
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0238
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FTP Identifier
32208648

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Dates
1858-09
1860-12-17
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B. N. Dawson et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-12-17, 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-0001-020-0238 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned would respectfully State to Your Honour that at the Septr. Term 1858 of the Caldwell Circuit Court a Judgment was rendered against Mason McDowel for $705.00 ^(Seventy five dollars)^ for carrying concealed weapons — He was a Youth, son of A. R. McDowel a very worthy but poor citizen of our county, who has recently had to pay the said fine for his Son Mason, having replived the same heretofore to keep him from going to Jail — In view of the great hardship on A. R. McDowel, (his son having left the state) The undersigned would respectfully ask the interposition of Executive clemency in his behalf, & that Your Excellency would order the restoration of the same to him except officers fees &c.

Princeton Ky Decr. 17th 1860

B,, N, Dawson
Jas H Leech
Jas A Johnson
M H, Pickering
Abram Dunning
G. W. Pickering
James Hawkins
Bryant Nichols
Al McGoodwin
R D Johnson
T J Greer
D. M [...]

E. P. Watkins
W. R. Gray
F M Jonas
W. H. Calvert
James S. Lowry
James C. Barnes

[Page 2] [...][...] Goodwin
W W Williams
Jas M Perkins
D Mcgriger
Thos S. Johnson
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Rejected
B. M