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Petition

John D. Lewis et al. to Unknown

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Place of Creation: Nelson 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: MG18-252 to MG18-253
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0484
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Dates: 1860-09; 1861-01-15

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John D. Lewis et al. to Unknown, 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-0001-020-0484 (November 13, 2026).

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The undersigned Citizens of Nelson County, petition His Excellency Gov Magoffin to remit so much of the forfeited Bond of Alfred Bernard upon which Carles Murphy, and Logan Bernard were Surities, as inures to the benefit of the Commonwealth, for the following reasons: The Surities upon the Bond, are poor men, Bernard himself is worth nothing, and if payment is forced of the Sureties, they will be very much distressed, and, in fact, to pay the amount of the Bond, will fall with great Severity, upon them, in fact they will be ruined.

Judgement was rendered against them upon the forfeited Bond at the Sept Term, of the Nelson Circuit Court, 1860, for the amount of five hundred dollars. The accused was young, about 18 years of age, poor, protesting that he was not guilty of the crime of rape as alledged. He had not the means of making a defense, became alarmed, and left the State

The Surities are old men, and worth very little more than the amount of the Bond Wherefore we earnestly petition His Excellency the Govenor, to release the amount due the Commonwealth.

John D Lewis
Woods Yantis
Ogden. W. Stiles
A. Bodine

J, C, Wickliffe
Charles Davis
Jonathan P Lewis
J A Curry

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J. T. Brown
A J Lewis
E. H. M^cKay
S. B. Merrifield Jr
N, B, M^cCaskey —
T. W. Miles
H, E, Stone
W. Y. Davis
W, A, McKay
J, M, Wells
L M^cKay
W R Fenly
C J Constantine
Thomas D. Russell
Sam^l M^cKay
J. N. M^cKay
James Duncan
W, H, Jones
P. H. Hodges
R J Foster
James Brewer
James Hoagland
W^m P Rogers
B. P Maran
Harrison brewer
W R Brown
J H Dugan
J M Dugan
John W Pence
Christopher H Graham
J. D. Stone
Reiney Wootton

Henry R M^cClaskey
John B Hughes
Jno, A, McKay,
T B Walter
Sam^l B Merrifield
Samuel W Brewer
Jes. S Wells
Ja^s C Graham
J A Calvert
C A Lewis
John Ash Jn
James M Allen
R B Grigsby
John Hammond
W. H. Bernet
Thomas Milligan
David Bullock Jr
Wm Vaughan
James Green
Stilwell D Heady
John R. Moone
W^m D Huston
Isaac McClaskey
volney Gore
Saml — Wilkerson
J. B. Merrifeild
M M Dawes
David Bullock
Jno. G. [Braigg]
Jno B Guthrie
James Bryant
James Cooper

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Names
W M Foster
James M Bishop
Asa Bogard
J H McKay
J. A. Duncan
Fielding Merrifield
Haden Mills
C B Thomas
John Combs
James Wood
W, Miles
T R Marshall
T B Rose
G S Rose
J, S, Jones
Richard Bond
W Y Johnson
David Wolf
F S Rouland
E E Murphy
R M Murphy
N. B. Beauchamp
Joseph E Duncan
Henry Duncan
John H Duncan
James. H. Hobbs
William G Graham
W^m Williams
Janmes Williams
Robret Smith
W S Hautchens
C. F. Hautchens

Names
Jacob F hearn
Alexander Dunkin
Joseph L Duncan
James Sefler
Stephen. A.. Bayne
Robert. S.. Bayne
William. H. Morgan
A M^cMakin
W. M. Hobbs
P. T. Hinkle
W R Marshall
F. C Marshall
John, Glass
Eigia J Parker
John Riddle
C Sappington
W^m Colter
T P. Marshall
W^m N Montgomery
george Sappington
W^m T. Calvert
John Montgomery
Josep [...] Faber
W H ford
Wm Cokendolpher
John Shields
J M Bodine
W P Sinclair
Peyton M^cMakin
P. L. M^cMakin

[Page 4] Nelson Cir. ct

Remitted
B. M.

$500. } Forf^d Recog.
C Murphy & L Bernard
Iss^dJany 15, 1861