Petition

R. M. Marshall to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG19-434
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0902
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FTP Identifier
32209310

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Dates
1860-10-06
1861-04-17
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Citation

R. M. Marshall to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-0902 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the state of Kentucky

Your Petitioners citizens of Mason County Kentucky would respectfully represent unto your Excellency that on the 6th the day of March October AD 1860. Marquis De. Layfayette Collins was convicted of a breach of the Peace before Wm P. Ray Esq. a justice of the Peace in and for Mason county aforesaid. and fined the sum of Fourteen Dollars. Your Petitioners would represent that the said Collins is a boy aged about Eighteen Dollars years and that he is very poor. that his Parents are also very poor and unable without sacrificing some of their household furniture to pay said fine That the Father & Mother of said Collins became bail for him for the payment of said fine which is now about due. and unless they are relieved therefrom by the act of your Excellency they will lose all they have. In view therefrom of all the facts in the case your Petitioners would resepctfully reuqest your Excellency to release John Collins & Tabitha Collins from the payment of said Bail

R. M. Marshall

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William Forman
Wilfred Ball
M A Mullikin
Willis Ballenger
Samuel P Combess
M I. Collins
J. W. Gault
Thos. Stevenson
Lewis Jefferson
James S Bratton
Manuel Matilla
Charles E Dye
James Anderson
Jefferson Watson
John Piles
Abner Hall
M. T Dise
W S Fowler
J C Wheeler
J, S, White
Thos Dye
Thomas. R. Griffith
James. D. Bratton
David Douglas
Jas H Grigsby
S C, Watson
John Wheeler

B. E. Pumpelly
Wm R Browning
John S Ball
H B Cracraft
Alfred Terrel
Charles B Carrol
John Riley

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Mason J P
Respite 20 mo
B. M
$14 } Breach
Marquis De Lafayette Collins
IssdApr 17 1861