W. E. Hamilton et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-03-27
- Date of Creation
- March 27, 1861
- 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
- MG19-173
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0754
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209162
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- Dates
- 1861-03-27
Citation
W. E. Hamilton et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-27, 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-0001-020-0754 (November 13, 2026).
To his Excellency Gov. B. Magoffin
Your Petition E. H. Hamilton Most humbly solicits your Excellency to remit the fine imposed on him of $29.62 cents by a Justice of the peace of Carter County Kentucky it being the same fine which he has heretofore Petitioned Your Excellency to remit and Your Excellency respited the same for twelve months which will Soon expire
The undersig^n^ed Petitioners Joines in the prayer with said Hamilton and now ask that said fine be remitted, They Most respectfully represent that said Hamilton is a Married Man & has a considerable family to support, & is like the Most of other Men (he is poor) but he is a hard laboring Man, & is striving to Make a living for himself & family & he is a peaceable Man, seldom gets into difficulties & has not been in any since he was fined as stated in his former Petition to your excellency and he now throws himself upon your Mercy & humbly prayers that said fine be remitted & that all individuals be restrained from collecting the same. Yours Respectfully
W E Hamilton
Isaac Pelfrey
Thoms Jones
W M Jones
John pelfrey
Wesley Hill Jr
Samuel B. Gordon
John M Hill
John Bunyand
Wm Shumat
David K. Rice
G. W. Shumate
Lance Pelfrey
John J Hamilton
William Hill Sr
Reubin D Shumate
Wesley Hill
James A Click
William J Hackey
L W Jones
L W Gordon
Eber Proctor
R N Jones
L D Gallaspie
J P Richards
Louis Gearhart
Wm H Garvin
Harrison Shumate
William A Forich
A. J. Nickell
Andrew Stephens
hesiah C Danal
Carmine C Royce
Robert Fletcher
Well C Day
Wesley Coronel
Joel Crish
John M C Danel
Preston Celve
P H Day
Hillan Slord
Damien Litrell
Wiley Browne
J W Day
Benjamin Royce
Elise Bare
John A
John A Black
H
Hezkeh Danel
Isac Jones
Dickard Steugall
John Peldrey Jr
Eligahg Caudill
Joseph Nickell
J M Nickell
Hiskia Jones Jr
John Nickell
Spencer Hill
John R thomas
Gorg Mull
R. F. Pelfrey
George W White
John.W. Ferguson
A. H. Kirkpatrick
G. W. Cassity
James A Kirk
Mathew W Kirk
Robert Kirk
Eli Sparks
D R Hamilton
John Dyer
W B Hill
Frances Pretter
Jerry Pretter
James Proctor
Harsen Shomake