Petition

Daniel Shawhan et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Harrison 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
MG18-422 to MG18-423
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0598
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32209006

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Dates
1861-02-28
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Citation

Daniel Shawhan 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-0001-020-0598 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency Gov Magoffin.

The undersigned your petitioners would respectfully state that on the 28th day of February 1861 Alfred a negro slave the property of Joseph Shawhan Senr of Harrison county killed Andy, a negro slave the property of Daniel Shawhan of Bourbon county, under circumstances which are stated in the minutes of the examing court. Your petitioners would state that they do not suppose that Alfred would be punished severaly, if at all, for the offence, if he were tried before the circuit court of Bourbon county, and would therefore pray that Your Excellency would therefore pardon Alfred, his master Joseph Shawhan promising to send him out of the state in the want of his being pardoned.

Daniel Shawhan
Charles Rush
John Stoker
W. L. Mercer
G. H. Talbott
Jesse Current Jr.
R Wadel
T F. Bowen
Saml. H. Preston
W P Knight
Wm J. McIlvain
Wm. H. Dubler M. D.
R. Willett
A Waydell

G D. Jones
Jas M. Jacobs
Jas B o'Brian
Porter Cook
Geo W Cook
Thos. S. Duvall
Jacob Rowe
Henry F Miller
A Lawry
J. J. Dubler
Tho. J. Current
John Jacobs
M. Bollen
J Curelt

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James. L. Northwell. C. B. C

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James B. Dubler
J B Moffett
H C Lindsay
T. J. Ratliffe
John. Masoner
Samuel Ewalt
George W Wilson
Beverly Hughs
E D Lightfoot
C. R. Shawhan
Francis Tate
William Tate
John Boyle
Daniel Duncan
H C Ewalt
T Grensaule
Jacob Duncan
A. S. Thomson

Harrison
cir ct
Rejected