Petition

Thomas Champion et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG17-280 to MG17-281
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0289
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FTP Identifier
32208699

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Dates
1860-05
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Thomas Champion et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-0289 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency the Govenor of Kentucky:

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that at the May Term (1860) of the Washington Circuit Court Judgement for a fine of $40.00 was rendered against Ben Steinbergen on a charge of selling loaning or giving whiskey to a slave." It was testified on ^the^ trial by persons, that they procured and furnished a negro with a bottle and accompanied him to Steinbergen's house, around which they watched while the Slave obtained the whiskey from him, on some pretext suggested by them; and by their stratigem the Indictment was procured by violent personal enemies of Said Steinbergen,

The charge is improbable and inconsistent with character and habits of Mr Steinbergen. He is a poor man with a wife and young Children, and is unable to pay the fine.

We do no believe there was any wilfull violation of law on his part, though technicalities prove his guilt, and we therefore, most respectfully ask a remission of his fine,

Thomas Champion
R M Anderson
Wm Funk
Wm H Canary
martin Young
Stephen N Dorsey
Andrew N Hundley
William Hundley

Henry Bevins
Thos M. Claybrook
Robert. W. Claybrook
J. D Whayne
S. B. Montgomery
W. F. Montgomery
Wm C Hilton
Henry Hilton
OS Graves
Nathan Graves

[Page 2] John.T. Barker
Wm R Logsdon
Johnsey Dorsey
Richard Dorsey
T, O, Wilson
Thomas Elliott
Jas Funk
H T Funk
T. M. Bolling
Jefferson Smolley
Charles S. Hundley
J S Baker
John T Brady
J. B. Hunter
R P Kindrick
John.A. Kindrick
G M, Riley
Jas. Rosenfeld
Geo Hayes
Thos R, Walker