Petition

Jacob Stokeley to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG18-223 to MG18-224
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0462
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32208870

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Dates
1860-12
1861-01-19
1861-01-22
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Citation

Jacob Stokeley 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-0001-020-0462 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Hon Beriah Magoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

Your petitioners would represent that at the Last JanDecember Term 1860 of the Scott Quarterly Court he was fined in the sum of $30 ^& cost^ for assault & Battery, That your petitioner is a poor man, but industrious, that he has a large family to support, that his wife is sickley, and that if he is compelled to pay the fine he will be very much oppressed, & that his familiy will necessarily suffer for the necessaries of life, wherefore he humbly petitions Your Excellency for a remission of the fine,

Jacob Stokeley

The undersigned united in the foregoing petition for a remission of

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the fine agaisnt said Jacob Stokely,

Bat T Thompson P J
George W Offutt (old Friend)
James W Samuell
E. F. Cantrill
B. F. Williams
J. W. Risk, D, S,
P Rankins

Georgetown Jany 19 1861

Genl Johnson we send you a petition to the Govrnor for the remission of a fine gainst Mr Stokly which you will please use your Influence in having it remitted the Govenors Message takes well here with our frends

Yours &c
Geog W. Offutt

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Scott Cir. Ct
$30 } assault
J.. Stokeley
IssdJany 22d 1861

Remitted
B. M.

Jas F. [Sourstin]