Delingham Kid to Beriah Magoffin
1860-12-26
- Date of Creation
- December 26, 1860
- Place of Creation
- Wolfe 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
- MG18-192 to MG18-193
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0444
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208852
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Citation
Delingham Kid to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-12-26, 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-0001-020-0444 (November 13, 2026).
To his Exelancy B Mcgofin Executive of the Commonwelth of kentucky
we the undersigned your petitioners do Respectfully Represent ourselves to your Exelancy that on the citson citisons of wolf county on a charg of a breach of the peace together with the Said charge the Jury fined for the commonwealth against James taulby $5, , also they fine John — Sparks $2.50 ^[...]^ and fineed dilingham kid $5 [.00] also the Virdic of the Same Jury Said that your petisioner kid pay all the Cost for which the Virdict of the Jury Extrecated the other 2 defendants of paying of any of the cost of the above Complained Virdict they also would not allow your humble petisioner [...] kid the allernitive of going to Jail to pay his fine your petitioners do Respectfullly and humbly ask your — Exelancy to REmit the fine of your — humble applicant delingham kid you humble petitioner is a Very pour man and hard run to keep his five orphant children from suffering as the high hand of Deity has takened his Bosom friend from the Embraces of his arms and this do Everly pray
Delingham kid
assigners
John R Chambers
Elisha Chambers
Eligah Chambers
John
[stris]
John B Gillespie
W W Wateman
Wn Gibson
Robert Rose
W. B, Rose
Isaac King
W M Chambers
R J Rose
John Patten
Stephen Swango
Miles Nichell
Nath a ggibbs
E C Rose
Wm qinn
John Rose Esq
John Ross
J, B, Comly
John M Cockerhman
D S [boomlile]
James little
Wm, P, Lacey J P
Franklin Coldiron
J. W. Hensley
Wm Falkner
R M wilson
Wm Murphy
J V Murphy
Wm trent
Campbell W Stamper
William ohair
Tundy sentr
John Simpkins
John Willson
J G Trimble
Wolfe J. P.
$5. } Breach
Jas Taulby
D. Kid
$2 50/100 } John Sparks
Issd
Remitted
B. M
