J. T. Goalder 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
- MG17-310
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0310
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208719
- People
- Higgason, Aaron C.
- Blakeman, Aaron W.
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Hazell, Burr
- Eckles, James A.
- Paxton, James J.
- Wheat, James
- Close, Jesse P.
- Sherrell, John E.
- Paxton, John M.
- Paxton, John W.
- Durham, Joseph John
- Paxton, Mathew M.
- Noe, Nancy Ann Rebeca
- Marshall, Oliver P.
- Hatcher, Robert
- Hood, Samuel
- Blakeman, Samuel L.
- Noe, Theresa Ann Corum
- Field, Thomas F.
- Marshall, Thomas
- Paxton, William E.
Citation
J. T. Goalder 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-0001-020-0310 (November 12, 2026).
To his excellency Beriah McGoffin Governor of Kentucky, your petitioners would respectfully state, that at the present term of the Green Circuit Court, one Jesse Close under an indictment for shooting at and wounding one Mrs Ann Noe and her daughter Nancy Ann, was convicted of the offence charged and sentanced to pay a fine of four hundred dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail four months — your petitoners believe the sentence was a just one, and ought not to be reversed or set aside; and in the opinion of many, was less severe, than the enormity of his crime deserved — your petitioners learn that the said Close has a petition in circulation to remit the fine, and release the imprisonment should such a paper be presented to your excellency, it is hoped it will be rejected on the ground that it is not a case requiring executive clemency, of which your exelency would be perfectly satisfied, if you knew the circumstances and evidence adduced upon the trial, and of which it is hoped your excellency will inform himself, and as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray &C —
J T. Goalder
K [...] Seter
T, B,, Moss
W W Montgomery one of the Jury
Wm [...]
James T Montgomery
T. [Sidebottom]
J. A Adair
B. F. [Bucher]
T A Webster
J E Sherrell
J J Durham
B. B. Scott.
B F Moss
D, E, Moss senor
F, L, Moss
John Hood
George Hood
Samuel Hood
W,, J,, Paxton
J,, W,, Paxton
J M Paxton
J H gilbert
A g gilbert
Peter Sidebottom
T B Eastes
H C Noe
J D Mays
J A Rison
Thomas Armes
John, M, Cann as [...]one of the jury
Royal J Noe
John H [Litmor]
A. W. Paxton
L. D. Clark
Thomas. A. Lowe
James Brewer
James J. Paxton
William E Paxton
Mathew M. Paxton
Aaron W Blakeman
Samuel L Blakeman
R. Hatcher
E B Clark
Jas A. Eckles
Milton Blakeman
W H blakeman
O. j. Epperson
J T Buchanan
C. H. Hatcher
R B White
J R White
I C Grave
John Moody
W, J. Cowherd
W. W. Starman
Jas, M, Atkinson
Danl P White Jr
Jas P Atkinson
J. W Shively
L, W, Robinson
Thos H, Gaines
B. W [...]
Robt Ball
Thos Muer
J. A. Brownlee
J S Durham, one of the Jury
J. A Trasenwriter
J. H. Moss
S M Moss
James P Smith
A, C, Higgason
Burr Hazell
James Wheat
Abel Hudson
Drury Hudson sen age 78
Strathe Hazell
John W Bragg
Francis Mars
O P Marshall
Thos Marshall
Thomas F Field one of the Jury