Petition

David Robinson et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-02-22

Date of Creation
February 22, 1861
Place of Creation
Pike 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
MG19-3
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0662
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32209070

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Dates
1860
1861-02-22
1861-03-28
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David Robinson et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-02-22, 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-0001-020-0662 (November 13, 2026).

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To his excelency the Honerable Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

your petitioners would State that sometime in 1860 there was a petition addressed to your excelency in behalf of William Grant against whom a fine had been adjudged for Adultry Before David Robinson a Justice of the peace for Pike County which fine had been replevid ^by William Adkins & James L. Ratliff^ and in your clemency you thought proper to grant a respite of twelve months and before the time expired the said William Grant left the Country privately and left his sureties to pay his fines; your petitioners would as you in your Clemency to remit Said fine in as much as the sureties of said Grant have been placed in a condition by the respite Granted to pay the fine when they could other wise have avoided it and your petitioners will ever pray given under our hands this 22nd day of February 1861

David Robinson J P P C
William Adkins
James L Ratliff } sureties
L C Dils
John Dils Jr
Joseph E Ratliff

Governor

This is the case in which its parties have left the Country This fine, wereIGovernor, would be remitted, Trust your excellency will Look at it as I do.

John M Rice

[Page 2]

Remitted
B. M
Pike J P
$10. } Adulter
Wm Grant
IssdMar 28 1861