Petition

Woodson Woods to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Morgan 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
MG19-458 to MG19-459
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0918
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32209326

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Dates
1858-12-01
1859-05-19
1859-05
1859-11
1860-04-20
1861-04-17
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Woodson Woods 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-0001-020-0918 (November 13, 2026).

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Morgan Circuit Court

The commonwealth of Kentucky against Woodrow Woods The Grandjurors of morgan County in the name & by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky accuse Woodrow Woods of the offense of Adultery Committed as follows towit the said woodrow woods on the 1s day of Decr 1858 in the county & circuit aforesaid being free white married man did copulate with Jane [...] a free white married woman but thay not being maried to Each other agnst the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Signed a true Bill & filed 19" May 1859 —

To the Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Your Petitioner Woodrow Woods would most respsectfully represent unto your Excellency that at the May Term of the morgan Circuit court he was indicted for Audltery a copy of which Indictment is above & at the November Term of said court in 1859. There was a fine of $10= assessed against him for said charge he states that since that time towit on the 20' day of April 1860 he & the said Jane [...] have introduced a copy of the License & certificate of marriage is here filed & presented to Your Excellency your petitioner Says that he is a poor man & had reason for mercy in these days of distress that he is now married and the object of the Law caused out & that the costs he thinks under the circumstances a sufficnt punishment

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which he will pay as the whole is now replived he in all Kindness & Confidence asks your Excellency to Remit said fine your petitioner has a former family of small & motherless children to support & has but a small & poor mountain farm to support them on & that not all paid for as yet with all this in view & the dificulty to get the money Your petitioner would [...] most respectfully ask your Excellency to Remit said fine your petioner dose not deem it necessary to procure a Long list of petitioners as he thinks it would not amount to any thing with the [...] now before you as to the cause of the fine & the marrage certificate Suffer me again to ask Your Excellency to remit said fine & [...] the frailty of mortal man

yours most Respectfully
Woodrow Woods.

Mr. Woods is an industrious man poor with a Large family & his condition is truly state in his petitn & hope your Excellency will remit the fine

John W Haydress

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Morgan Cir. Ct
$10 } Adultery
W. Woods
Remission Issd
Apr. 17. 1861