A. R. Sewell et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-02-05
- Date of Creation
- February 5, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Scott 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
- MG18-492
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0646
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- 32209054
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- Dates
- 1861-02-05
Citation
A. R. Sewell et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-02-05, 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-0001-020-0646 (November 13, 2026).
To his Excellency the Gov of Ky B. Magoffin
The undersigned would beg leave to state and pray the intervention of executive clemency. That Mr John H Orbry was fined at the last term of the Scott Circuit the sum of $20.00 the costs pertaining to the trial making the whole sum $28.80 The offense alledged was a misdemeanor in disturbing the peace when in truth and in fact as your petitioners ^believe^ There was ^not^ criminality on the part of Orbry sufficient to warrant the above verdict — and upon the trial from the circumstances of the case Deft could not bring out the whole truth of the case — Mr Orbry is a very industrious man and of good character He is in very indigent circumstances and has a large family who depend upon the work of his hands for their daily bread — He cannot raise the rum adjudged against him without a sacrifice of his few personal chattels indispensible to the comfort of his family We would therefore present him to you as a subject demanding your clemency and pray your Excellency to remit his fine.
A R Sewell
V C Bradley
B. N Bradford
J A Ford
S A Hedrick
Samul T. Gayle
Stephen Lucas
Stephen Thomason
John Crawford
Thos R Stockdell
L. D. Whitton
Ben Robey
Wm James
James Roby
W. H. Stokdell
L. G. Harrison
J. D. Crosley
J W McDaniel
Somuel Alsop
Joseph R. Hoover
Sandford Perry
R J Reding
Overton Wallace
George sullivan
Thomas Patzell
Levi Covington
George Alsop
Day S Alsop
James William [...]
Robert Dougherty
Sct Robinson
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Fleming Glass
B. F. Bradley
J. T. Owens
B.. S.. Tucker
Shelby Hile
Wm. J. Tapp M D
James Wilson
Sanford Channing
Albert Costigon
Elijah Phillips
Josiah F. Bond
Wm Midleton
Henry Bery
J. W. Bridges
James R Mefford
Jeremiah Robey
G. C. Hurt
William Elder
John toomy
Jess James
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Boswell Alsop
Austin Alsop
White Fleet ^Wood^
J. B. Beaty
James H Robs
C S Smith
Demetrius Percy
James Sutton
John Morgan
Jackson Morgan
Eldridge Branham
John H Wash
Thomas Hayes
D H Gatewood
J F Sinclair
J Hambrict Jr
Wm Newman
A Calvert
Wm P. Calvert
Nacy Alsop
H. C. Greenup
William F Fleetwood
W W Johnson
James Taylor
Jno Ulrich
J. S. Lindsay
M V. Sinclair
W. D Poindexter
Joseph Yates
P Y Bond
H. W. Ford.
Jno W Branham
Elijah Perry Jr
A. H. Owen
J. H. Nelson
John W Alsop
Edward Mabry
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I Request his Exclency the Governor to Remit the fine
J. E. AlsopScott Cir. Ct
Remitted
B. M.
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Jno H. Awbrey
Issd
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