Jonathan Jones to Beriah Magoffin
1861-01-14
- Date of Creation
- January 14, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Prestonburg, Floyd 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
- MG18-97 to MG18-98
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0389
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208797
- People
- McGuire, Ambrose C.
- Hamilton, Benjamin
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Powers, Holloway
- Risner, Jacob
- McNamaira, James
- Cooper, John E.
- Harrison, John
- Burns, John M.
- Elliott, John Milton
- Sheppard, John
- Kendall, John W.
- Jones, Jonathan
- Gardner, Joseph
- Gardner, Joseph H.
- May, Samuel
- Reid, Sanford
- Salyer, Thomas L.
- Baley, Wallis
- Cole, William G.
- Salyer, William J.
- Lykins, William
Citation
Jonathan Jones to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-14, 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-0001-020-0389 (December 12, 2025).
Prestonsburg Ky
To His Excellency
Beriah Magoffin Governer of Ky
Your Petitioner Jonathan Jones would respectfully represent that at the pistol Knife for his own nesessary defense and on his way home he carried the pistol Knife but not concealed at any time and the witness Benjamin Hamilton swore the Same,, yet he was fined by the jury the Sum above named, and — the Petitioner now and at the time believed it was done by some mistake that prevailed among jury trying him he says he did not in Kentucky carry sd Pistol Knife Concealed Wherefore he says he was not Guilty of the offense charged he therefore prays I your Excellency to remit the sd fine and for all proper relief
Jonathan Jones
Jonathan Jones says the statements in the foregoing Petition are true
Jonathan Jones
Sworn to before me by Jonathan Jones this
Wm P Salyer Exam J P
Signers names
John M. Burns
William P Salyer
Jos H Gardner
William Lykins
Jno [Harrison]
Holloway Power
Samuel May
A C Mcguire
William G Cole
Sanford Reid
Thos, L, Salyer Esq
Signers names
John, M, Elliott
Joseph Gardner
John W Kendall
J. E. Cooper
John Power
S. W. Mcguire
James [McNamaira]
Jacob Risnen
James E. Stewart
Wallis Balay
Johnathan
John Sheppard
yours with much
Respect
Elliott & John M Burns
Floyd Cir. ct
Remitted
B. M
$50 } Weapon
J. Jones
Issd