Petition

John P. Hunter et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-03-16

Date of Creation
March 16, 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
MG19-322
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0840
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FTP Identifier
32209248

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Dates
1860-03
1861-03-16
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John P. Hunter et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-16, 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-0001-020-0840 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin

The undersigned petitioners would respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the March Term of the Jessamine Circuit Court, held in the Town of Nicholasville for 1860 — Bluford Waters was fined the sum of fifty Dollars for carry concealed weapons — Irvine Masters became his surety for the amnt Subsequently Execution has been issued against the said Waters & Irvine Masters, which sd Execution is now in the hand of the Sheriff for collection — The property of said Waters has been attached & he has left the country — leaving the amt aforesaid for sd Masters to pay — the payment of which Execution would embarass him very much at this time — he therefore prays [...] the petitioners hereunto pray — that your Excellency will interpose — with the power wisely vested in you by the constitution — & remit the fine
March 156 1861

John P Hunter
W, C, Lowry
Dent Hoover
T. Woodrow
John. D. Scott
James Carter
Tho, B, Scott
D. Portwood
Wm Watts
M. F. Miller

Irvine Masters
A L McAfee
William T Walls
W R Weber
James Burdine
Thos K. Letcher
R. M. Merrick
G. W. Mitchell
Hervey Scott
Wm Elmore
J. T. Mitchell

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H J Campbell P, J, J, C, C,
M. T. Lowry Clk. J. c. c.
E, Cosby
Wm H Daniel,