Petition

William W. Herndon et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
McCracken 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
MG18-266
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0493
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FTP Identifier
32208901

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Dates
1860-01
1861-01-11
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William W. Herndon et al. 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-0001-020-0493 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency B MaGoffin
Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned Citizens of McCracken County,

Respectfully, State that at the Jany term of the McCracken Equity & Criminal Court 1860, Wm Mullins was fined for disturbing religious worship and at the Same term he was fined for a Breach of the Peace, D. C. Wilcox replevied Said fines, the amount of the first is $62.35 & the last $37.71. Mullins has no property, and Wilcox will have to pay the fines unless your Excellency will release him from the Same which Your petitioners respectfully ask as it would be hard and unjust for Wilcox to pay Said fines —

Names —

Wm W. Herndon
John Keller
Scott Laurie
Joel Johns
T. J. Lovelace
Jno Farrar
W F Norton
R S Ratcliffe

G F McClelland
A. B. Kinkead
R O Woolfolk
G F Rabb
J. G. Quigley
Geo, A, Allen
John Q. A. King

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Remitted
B, M

IsdJay 11, 1861