Petition

Talton E. Walker et al. to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Richmond, Madison 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
MG20-50
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0991
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FTP Identifier
32209399

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Dates
1860
1860-09
1861-03
1861-04-01
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Citation

Talton E. Walker et al. 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-0001-020-0991 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency
Hon. Beriah Magoffin

The undersigned would respectfully represent that at some time in 1860 a young man, a friend and neighbor of Talton E Walker the petitioner, called on him & spent the night with him, and left there a pistol; he afterwards requested the petitioner to bring it to him in Richmond which he did. Not wishing to carry it in his hand he put it in his pocket & carried it to Town and just before he delivered it up, it was seen by the witness William H Smith who indicted him at the September term of the Madison Circuit Court & on the [...] day of [...] during the present March Term of said court. He was convicted by confession of Judgment ^in the sum of $50^ & believing it to be a case worthy of Executive Clemency would recommend to your Excellency a remission of the fine against said Walker

Talton E Walker

Bradley & Billingsly
Wm Quincy Davis
R. G. Burton
Wm. Holloway
W M Stone
W. M. Irvine

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Madison Cir. Ct

Remitted
B. M

$50 } Weapons
FT. E Walker

Iss Apr 1. 1861