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Petition

Thomas M. McGough et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-01-18

Document details

Date of Creation: January 18, 1861
Place of Creation: Caldwell 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: MG18-391
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0578
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Thomas M. McGough et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-18, 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-0001-020-0578 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah M^cGoffin

Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Whereas at the November Term of the Caldwell Circuit Court Thomas Simpson was tried on a charge of disturbing relegious worship and fined in the sum of ten dollars and costs and haveing manely the care of a mother and three sisters and in vary humble circumstances and this being the onley charge ~~that is~~ against him or that we ever herd against him but on the contrary he is of good moral Stating now we your petioners would ask for Executive clemency in his case by the re^m^ission of said fine and by so doing you petitioners would be under renewed obligations January 18^th 1861

Tho^s M M^cGough
J. A. Asher
Jessee George
Jeff C Asher
A.. W.. Mcchesney
L.. C.. Brown
John P Stan
C Baker
J.. M. Simpson
W Frahey
H W Stone
James M Bumpass
James.. W.. Holyfield

David stevenson
R.. L.. Harper
J.. G.. Morse
T.. J.. Conner
John.. T.. Morse
Thomas Dunn
S.. W.. [...]
A. R M^cDowell
David Neho
James Blackburn
Z Blackburn
L Blackburn
W M Hobby

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Benjamin Board
Samule S Simmons
W W Blackburn
W^m Laughlin
Jones A Fletcher
Henry Nelson
John K Morse
John M^cNeely
D M^cGriger
J. W. Holman
W E Calvert
William Calvert
Alford Bessner
F W Dodds, D. S. C. C.
A T Wild
C Nelson
James Keeny
Josyah Dunn
W. B. Brelsford
James M Pearce
James A Newton
W G C Morse
William Riley
John Holeman
J T Dalton
W^m Board
John Stewart

G B E Traylor
W H Blackburn
L.. D.. Stevens
Samuel Riggs
C G Eave
T K Stevenson
W.. M Stevens
T. M. Asher
H.. W.. Morse
John A Biggs
P H C Brown
B. N. Dawson
Johm H Stromott
Jourdan Stewart
T D [...]
T G Fredrick
D. E. Sigler
Wm R Langfield
Morgan Holeman
J W Sullivan
W J Hillyard
S F Grove
W H Calvert
J. R. Clift
R C Boyd
S H Leech
R H Frien
W H Fraley
John P Dalton