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Petition

S. D. Holloway et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Place of Creation: Scott 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: MG18-60
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0364
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FTP Identifier: 32208772

Mentioned in this document

People: Alsop, Austin; Bradford, Benjamin N.; Magoffin, Beriah; Jones, C. S.; Tilford, George Madison; Baldwin, James Dudley; Lindsay, John; Wash, John N.; Baker, John Quicksell; Adams, John Quincy; Corssen, John R.; Barber, Joseph; Lucas, Legrand; Holloway, Lorenzo Dow; McCurry, M.; Tomlinson, Sanford; Orr, William
Places: Scott County, Kentucky
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Scott Circuit Court; Scott County Jail
Dates: --11

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S. D. Holloway 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-0001-020-0364 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Mcgoffin Govenor of of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that at the Novr: Term of the Scott Circuit Court Sanford Tomlinson was tried for Shooting John Baker with intent to Kill and was for Said offence fined the Sum of Fifty Dollars & cost and imprisoned in the County Jail for Six Months. We would further State that we believe that Said Tomlinson Shot at Said Baker honestly believing that he would be Killed or badly beaten by Said Baker the proof in the cause clearly Showing that Said Baker had on divers occations treated Said Tomlinson in Such a manner as would have Justified Said Tomlinson in Killing him and that the only thing which could have possibily Justified Such a verdict is that Said Tomlinson Shot at the wrong time notwithstanding we belive he honestly thought he would be attackd he having been abused by Said Baker once or twice the Same day. We further State that Sanford Tomlinson So far as our intercorse has been is a good law abiding citizen, It was proven by Several witnesses in Court that Baker had Threaten to take the life of Said Tomlinson on former occasions, We would therefore Knowing the facts in the case pray Your excellency to remit the fine and releace the Said Tomlinson from the imprisonment and Your petitioners would ever pray &c.

S. D. Holloway
William Orr
B, N, Bradford
John R [Corssen]
Ja^s Baldwin
Legrand Lucas
J. S. Lindsay

Joseph Barber
~~William D Poindexter~~
M M^cCurry
John H Wash
Austin Alsop
G, M, Tilford
S. Jones
J V Adams

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Commonwealth
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Sanford Tomlinson