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Petition

John Perry, Jr. to Beriah Magoffin

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Place of Creation: Jessamine 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: MG18-45 to MG18-46
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0353
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FTP Identifier: 32208761

Mentioned in this document

People: McAfee, Allen L.; Magoffin, Beriah; Campbell, George J.; Cook, John B.; Harlan, John Marshall; McCabe, John; Metcalf, John; Perry, John, Jr.; Lowry, Melvin T.; Smith, P. N.; Noland, S.; Mizener, Samuel S.; Crutcher, Thomas B,; Clark, William; Simms, William Emmett; Daniel, William H.; Dickerson, Woodson
Places: Jessamine County, Kentucky
Organizations: 8th Congressional District; Commonwealth of Kentucky; United States Congress
Dates: 1860-03; 1859-12-08; 1859-09

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John Perry, Jr. 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-0001-020-0353 (December 16, 2025).

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To his Excellency — Beriah MaGoffin
Governor. of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Your petitioner John Perry Jr would respectfully represent that at the September term of the Jessamine Circuit Court 1859 he was indicted by the Grand Jury of Jessamine County for Betting on the election ($100 — ) of Congressmen in the 8^th Congressional District between W^m E Sims and J M Harlan which said money he lost, upon which Indictment a Bench warrant was issued Dec 8^th 1859 returnable to March Term 1860 of the Court aforesaid,

Your petitioner would represent that he is not in the habit of betting, he is a law abiding man that the bet was made under excitement, that since the bet and the Indictment he has connected himself with the church, and hopes and believes he will live a different life — that this is the first offence and Indictment ever found against him, wherefore he would pray your Excellency to exercise the power wisely vested in you by the Constitution to release him from said Indictment and the fine thereunder and will ever pray &^c

John. Perry. jr

The undersigned citizens of Jessamine County would most earnestly and respectfully join in the prayer of the foregoing petition —

W^m H Daniel
J B Cook
Jno Metcalf
W Clarke
S. S. [...]
A D M^cAfee

W: R. [Welch]
M. T. Lowry clk J cc
Tho^s B, Crutcher
Geo. J. Campbell
S. Noland
P. H. Smith
W, Dickerson
John McCabe

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[Page 4] John Perry —
Betting on election —
no judgment —