Correspondence

S. M. Kennedy and W. B. Harrison to Beriah Magoffin

1860-12-31

Date of Creation
December 31, 1860
Place of Creation
Elkton, Todd 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
MG17-271 to MG17-272
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0284
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FTP Identifier
32208694

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Dates
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1860-12
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S. M. Kennedy and W. B. Harrison to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-12-31, 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-0001-020-0284 (November 13, 2026).

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Elkton Ky Decr 31 1860
Hon Beriah Magoffin
Frankfort
Ky
Dear sir

At the last Octr Term of our Circuit Court The Commonwealth of Kentucky recover Judgment agst W W Grady for Ten dollars on and indictment for nuisance to the public highway the proof introduced on the trial was that the overseer of the road leading from Elkton to Fairview in this County cut a ditch in front of the Blacksmith and wagonn makers shop belonging to the sd Grady and that the same was almost entirely cut onso through Gradys land a very small portion thereof being in the public road, and was a very great inconvenience to Grady and persons that employed him to do their work and that he filled up the ditch and turned the water into the road injuring it but very little if any

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he is a poor man and he in conjunction with the undersigned would be pleased if your Excellency would release him from the payment of said fine.

Very Respectfully
S, M, Kennedy
W. B Harrison

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Respite 12 Mo
B. M
IsdJany 3
Todd Cir. Ct
$10. } Nuisance
W. W. Grady