Jesse Young et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Green 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
- MG17-297 to MG17-298
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0300
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208709
- People
- Skaggs, Alexander V.
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Crail, Calvin
- Russell, Catherine
- Towles, David T.
- Williams, Frances
- Shuffet, Francis
- Boston, George B.
- [Unknown], Gilbert
- Shuffett, Hartwell B.
- Russell, Isabella W. Forbis
- Crail, James
- Russell, James Jefferson, Sr.
- Pittman, James
- Forbis, James R.
- Skaggs, James Thomas
- Young, Jesse
- Williams, John D.
- Mathis, John
- Pittman, John
- Abner, Joseph
- Davenport, Joseph
- Pittman, Joseph
- Russell, Joseph
- Herren, Marion Washington
- Williams, Martha J.
- Skaggs, Mary "Polly" C.
- Skaggs, Rachel Jane
- Lobb, Reuben, Sr.
- Pittman, Samuel, Sr.
- Pittman, Solomon
- Lively, Squire
- Pittman, Starling
- Williams, Susan
- Abner, Thomas
- Boston, William
- Devenport, William
- Lobb, William
- Cannon, Zarel
- Places
- Green County, Kentucky
- Organizations
- Green County Jail
Citation
Jesse Young 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-0001-020-0300 (November 12, 2026).
We the undersigned Citizens of Green county and neighbors of J. J. Russell and his father and Mother & Brothers, residents of said county ^state that^ said J J Russell has been tried for the alledged offence of Dis misdemeanor in Disfiguring or maiming stock and has been convicted and is now in the County Jail under Sentence for 4 months. we believe in all Sincerity and Candor that said Russell is innocent of the charge and we are satisfied that his Conviction has been brought about by unjust and unfair means. the chief Witnesses against him were his bitter Enemies who not only persecuted him in every way but prosecuted him by Employing some four Lawyers the ablest at the Bar in addition to the attorney for the Commonwealth and then becoming the chief witnesses in the case. We do not beleeve in all Candor that said Russell has had Justice done him — he is a poor man with a wife and two little children who rely solely upon him for a support. he is an honest hard working clever man & has the good will of his neighbors and with the Exception of a few Enemies he stands fair and above suspicion of the crime. indeed we are satisfied he could not have been
guilty of the crime as he could have proven by respectable testimony and a number of them that he was Elsewhere We state to your Excellency that his old father [...] was a Veteran of the War of 1812 and done good Service for his country & we believe he has raised an honest and Clever family. the Defendant being one of them
We pray your Excellency to take this poor mans Case into your favorable Consideration and release him from this unjust imprisonment and restore him to his family. Which we are satisfied will be most heartily and Cordially approved by our Citizens and Especially those who Know the Deft best. all of which we respectfully submit to your Excellency we will add that the gloom prevading our land at present and the destress to theis community by the dry weather. calls aloud for the Sympathy of your Excellency to lend your authority to restore the unfortunate man to his familys aid
Jesse Young
Joseph Davenport
Alaxander N. Skaggs
T. Skaggs
P, D. Williams
F Williams
M. J Willilliams
S Williams
Washington Heron
M. C. Skaggs
R. J, Skaggs
S. F, Skags
James, Mathews
John Mathews
F Shuffit
George B Boston
Thomas Abner
William Boston
M. Boston
Samuel F Wells,
Wm P Forbis
Thomas Mcurry
David Forbis
Paterson Jeffriers
J. T. Houk
Green Forbis,
William Wallace Ser
Richman Robinson
Warren Erwin
Mansfield Houk
N, G, Forbis
Wm[...] McCandless
Wm Wallace
F. Wallace
W,, Batey
Samuel Pittman
Gilbert. Isaacs
Joseph Pittman
Solomon Pittman
James Pittman
John Pittman
Sterlin Pittman
James Forbis
Calvin Crail
James Crail
S Q Lively
Joseph Abner
James, Robinson
Reuben Lobb
W C Davenport
William Lobb
Z, R, Cannon
N. R Shuffit
David Towles
Names of Petitioners on his behalf