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Petition

Catharine Knight to Beriah Magoffin

1861-01-23

Document details

Date of Creation: January 23, 1861
Place of Creation: Williamsburg, Whitley 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: MG18-230
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0468
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FTP Identifier: 32208876

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Dates: 1861-01-23; 1859-03; 1859-07-18; 1861-01-30

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Catharine Knight to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-23, 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-0001-020-0468 (November 13, 2026).

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Whitly C. H. Ky.
Jan 23^rd 1861

To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your Petitioner Catharine Knight would respectfully represent unto your Excellency that at the March Term of the whitly Circuit Court ^1859^ Judgment went against her son Benj Knight for ^$10 — ^ ten dollars for an assault and that afterwards rather than see her son incarcerated in prison She replevied said Judgment and afterwards on the 18^th of July 1859 The Governer respited ^the collection of^ said fine for the Term of six months and said time being out your Petitioner will have the Judgment to pay unless your Excellency interven and remit the same your Petitioner would further represent that she is very Poor hardly able to live and has a family and is now old and feeble and that her son is perfectly worthless and will pay nothing and nothing can be made out of him the premises considered the prayer of your Petitioner is that you remit said

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fine ~~for~~or release her from the payment thereof for which she will ever feell greatful

Catharine Knight

We the undersigned Join in the prayer of the forgoing Petition & cincerely hope your Excellency will remit the fine

R. Boyd
Martin Caddell
Jo^s E Tye
J. D. Gilliss
W C Murphy
John Smith
S P Brawner
J. Q. Barton
Lee Leforce

Whitley Cir. ct

Remitted
B. M

$10, } Replevin Bond
Catharine Knight
Iss^dJany 30 1861

fine for which she will ever [...]