Petition

James Taylor 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
MG18-3 to MG18-4
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0321
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FTP Identifier
32208730

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James Taylor 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-0001-020-0321 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioners Citizens and long residents of Campbell & Kenton Counties would respectfully represent to your Excellency

That Joseph Temple for nearly a quarter of a century a resident of said Counties has been found by the verdict of a jury in Kenton County guilty of perjury & Sentenced to onetwo years confinement in the penitentiary

Your petitioners state that Joseph Temple is an Old man now in the evening of his life that for more than twenty years he has resided in this community & has born the reputation of an useful industrus & respected Citizen, that while your petitioners do not impugn the integrity or the intelligence of the jury yet that they Can but believe that the sentance was "hasty & unjust, At all evnts the previous unimpeached correctness of the Character of this unfortunate man pleaes strongly & eloquently for leniency at the hands of the Executive & we his neighbors & fellow Citizens in whose midst the better remnant of his life is to be passed earnestly urge & request your excellency to pardon him

James Taylor
Robert Todd
John H Barlow
James E Perry

R. H. Caldwell
James. R. Morin
Samuel Morlidge
B F Caldwell
Saml Winston

I have Known Mr Temple for many years he once resided on my fathers Land I have had dealings with him for Large amounts on my books & papers show I have always found him correct & honest & besides a very liberal man
James Taylor
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J M Caldwell
Jas T Berry
Wm. Ringo.
R. T. Thornton
A. M. Wellner
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Thos J, Allen
Wm W Thomson
George Coy
Thos Blackwood
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J D Atkison
Johnl, F, Washington
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C Stricker
John Stricker
J. Q. A. Foster
James Stricker
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C, W, Hawkins
C, W, Kavanaugh
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Nat. S. Shaler
G. Ashman
C. Daniel
J. T. Berry Jr.
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Levi Pettit
R. E. Southgate

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