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Petition

John McDonald et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1860-10-31

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Date of Creation: October 31, 1860
Place of Creation: Covington, Kenton 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: MG18-159 to MG18-160
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0424
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Dates: 1860-10-31; 1860-11-10; 1861-01-03; 1861-01-03

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John McDonald et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-10-31, 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-0001-020-0424 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency
Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky,

Your Petitioners beg leave to state that we have been informed that James A Ransom, a convict in the Ky Penitentiary, sent from Covington is quite ill, unable to work — that he has been some time in the Hospital —

We refer your Excellency to a Petition now in your hands for the facts as to Ransom's offense — trial and conviction, His widowed mother is in deep distress, and poverty, and now deprived of almost her only support by the confinement of James, is in danger of extreme suffering from the cold of the coming Winter, We ask that you will give this case an immediate examination, and if compatible with reason, justice, humanity and the welfare of society, that you will grant him an immediate pardon. Covington Ky Oct 31/60

Names
John M^cDonald
A C. Ellis
Peter Longhorse
James M^cferson
Jacob Metz

Names
John R. Ricke
A. Madeira
Speer Ferguson
John Brown
James ^his x Mark^ Butler

[Page 2] John P M^cGlaughlin
Marshal of Covington, if consistant with your Feeling, and believing that he has already Sufferd greately in flesh, he may and I hope will reform and restore happyness to his afflicted ^mother^ and aid him in his good Intention of reforming. I have given my Name to his pettishier

Covington Nov 10^th, I was present when James Ransom was tried & hardly thought a conviction could be found under the testimony offered. I perceive the names of several lawyers attached to this petition & suppose that they were impressed similarly to myself. John M. Casey

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I am satisfied the statement in the above petition are strictly true, the original petition gives the facts. I am satisfied that this is a proper subject for the interferance of Executive clemency & hope if the young man is released he will soon be able to aid his poor mother, as he has certainly ever been an industrious boy —

C M [...]

I fully concur with the above

James B Gray
John Kearny
John Clayton
D. E Noonan
Henry Zell
G H Utley
J C Howard
Ben Davison
Ben, F, Hieatt

J A. Goodson
T. A Flanagan
T Phillips
James [tambilin]
Henry Bottes
Wm. D. Brown
W D Holt
Levi F, Daughety

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H, Myers
C Butler
John -C- Taylor
Joseph a Keen
Richard Richards
John M Ferguson
R K Sumerwell
M M Bolan
W^m Wason
Thos, G, Wayman
Edward M^cClarnon
Joel H Mcglasson
Benjamin L Mcglasson
Elbert R. Casey
A, H, Herod Jailor
W^m Everson
B, B, Weidler
Geo, A, Gray
A J Francis
Clinton Butts
J, H, Graham
John H [Druckur]
John [Jameson]
Nicholas Mount,,
Wilhem Fahlsing
F. M. Susan
S C Perrin
W. J. Perrin
E Williams
J [...]

John Ben
A Julen
John M^cNamara
[...][...]
Patt M^cNamara
James Woodruff
E.. Vastine
James withers
Daniel Pate
W^m W Boswell
Alanson Gray
John Williams
John S Lucas
John Flynn
R Simmons
J S, Gallaugh
A J [Gray]
John Howard
Mich J Callinan
Bis Spriggs
Rich^d Cheesman
Robert Glass
Owen Connelly
Jason Gard
Joseph Davis
John miller
J. L. Graham
Samuel Hadgets
Benj Stevenson
William Mooney
John Bennet
[...]

[Page 5] Robert Elliot
James Berry
Willus Rush
H C Harris
John Bennet
George Pavin
A, M, Brafford
Setverther Pavin
David Thomas
James Desmond
William Griffiths
Enock Braiton
Miles Grenwood
Lewis Morgan
John Morgan
Bennet Astemen
Henry Botles
W, F Nicklor

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To His Excellency
Beriah Magoffin Governor

Kenton Cir. Ct.

Issue Pardon
B, M

Felony

Ja^s A. Rousseau
Iss^dJany 3 1861.

Is^dJay 3

Petition for the Pardon of James A Rouseau

Robert Brown
[Max] Finn
Barry struchoff
Jos. [owens N P]
Benjamin Stevenson
Wm H Estep
R W Cooper
James Edwards
William
William D Vaughn
Thomas Vaughn