Petition

James A. Dawson et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-03-04

Date of Creation
March 4, 1861
Place of Creation
Munfordville, Hart 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
MG19-155 to MG19-156
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0742
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FTP Identifier
32209150

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Dates
1860-10
1861-03-04
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James A. Dawson et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-04, 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-0001-020-0742 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency, Beriah Magoffin, Govenor of the Commonwelath of Kentucky,

Your petitioners would respectfully represent to Your Excellency that at the October 1860 Term of the Hart Equity & Criminal Court a Judgment was rendered against one G. W. Dobson (prinicpal) and R. S. Thomas (Security) for the sum of Three hundred dollars with costs, on an Indictment for the Violation of Tavern Bond. They would further represent that at the date of the Bond the principal (Dobson) was considered abundantly solvent & a discreet & orderly citizen. That he subsequently sold and disposed of his property, and has left the county of Hart having no property out of which the Judgment can be satisfied and that, unless your excellency interpose the said Thomas will be compelled to pay the whole amount of the Judgment with its costs, which would be exceedingly oppressive (he being a poor man)

Wherefore your petitioners would respectfully ask that said fine (except fees) be remitted so far as Said Thomas is concerned.

Munfordville March 4th 1861.

Jas A. Dawson
Jas H. Campton
C. C. Burks
E. Hawkings C. H. C
Dann A Cruse
John Kinkade
Jas L Hardy

John Rowe
H D gett
H. B. White
C H McHatton
A D Clarke
M. Ettlinger
A Higginbotham

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Joseph M Stats
J. M Alonz
R. S. Wilshite
David Crabt
Thomas Logsgsdon Sin
James Kesinger J p h C
Daniel Roberson
John Roberson
Jno M Cure
J B Tagger
Baas Logdson
Jno Donan
J Lawson E. S. q
Gabriel Raynolds
Oly Hodges Sr
W. B. Thompson
B. L. Kerr
C M Dixon
R A Dawson
H M Shuffett
D. A. C Tharp
H. M Tharp
J. L. Tharp
Elisha Johnson
J. A. Edwards
Wm. V. Garvin
Issac Welden
Z. Welden
D. G. Rowlett
John W Tharp
William Knight
Thos. J. Whitman
A. M. Goodman

John R. Leslie
Wm T Maupin
John. R. Newton
A. C. Murrey
W. W. Cates
M J D Thomas
J B Buckner
Prosser Crye
James Lobb
William V Philip
Dr A V Enlow
Jerry lamkins
B. G. Dodson
G. T. Wood

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H. S. Shoudy
H B Wilson
J. W. Edward
A M Adair
K Jameson
Jno S Bohannon
Thos Hodges
F. A Smith
A J Gardner
Jim T. Lewis
J L Morris
David Hodges
W W Wright
D H [...]
R W Lively
J. H. Shipp
John E Reynolds
Henry P Sanders
Daniel E Durham
William Ward
Nathaniel Ward
John Highbaugh
Chadrah Hodges Jr
Tolbert Gaddin
Tomme Smith
W. W. Pointer
B R Hodges
J. T. Thornbury
G. D. Street
D. L. Hawkins
W B Hankla

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Rejected