Robert J. Breckinridge to Beriah Magoffin
1860-12-22
- Date of Creation
- December 22, 1860
- Place of Creation
- Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Correspondence
- 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
- MG17-244 to MG17-245
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0268
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208678
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Citation
Robert J. Breckinridge to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-12-22, 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-0001-020-0268 (November 13, 2026).
Lexington
Hon Beriah Magoffin
Dear Sir
About six weeks or two months since, I was induced by the entreatie of a Widowed Mother to become the security for her son. on a Bond to keep the Peace — since that time the Boy has broken the Peace and thereby forfeited the Bond — I Know of no excuse of justification which can be set up in defense of the Deft conduct — at the same time I can see
no advantage to accrue to the state by coercing from me the amount of the Bond viz $1500 — Times are hard — money scarce, I am poor, and the Union is divided, in veiw of these circumstances it is my candid opinion that this also is a case which strongly recommends itself to executive clemency — Hoping that your Excellency may take the same view of the matter — and send by mail a pPardon for your humble servant
I remain as Ever
Respectfully
Robt J Breckinridge
R. J. Breckinridge
Respite 12 mo
B, M
Lexington City Ct
$150 } Bail Bond
Issd