Petition

J. A. Hagan et al. 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
MG20-53
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0994
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FTP Identifier
32209402

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Dates
1861-03-30
1861-04-09
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Citation

J. A. Hagan 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-0001-020-0994 (November 14, 2026).

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We whose names are hereto attached respectfully represent to his Excellency Govenor Magoffin that Francis W Downs ^is^ in the county Jail of Nelson County confined for the term of fifteen days from & after the 30 March 1861. for a Breach of the peace He has a wife & one child depending upon his daily toil for support & knowing Downs to be a clever man and this Breach of the peace being the only thing Whereof we his neighbors ever knew him to be guilty & knowing that his family must Suffer on account of his imprisonment & that the present time is all important with him to pitch his crop for the coming season, we respectfully ask that he be released & his fine which is $15.00 be remitted He is a poor man & $15.00 which to some persons would be insignificant is to him more money than he can spare from the support of his family — we make this petition not at his request & without his knowledge & in order that he may be enabled to go home to his family where he is needed indeed

J A Hagan
george Ball
John R. geenwell
Joseph Boon
John B Hagan
Isaac Ball
Henry monarch
James W Burns
John Ball
Henry Howard
Charles mudd
[E]dward Boon

Thomas A Bowling
Richard E [...]
Joseph H Edlen
Stephen Wimsett
Wm J Metcalf
Basil Avis
William Bartly
James P Ballard
[...][...]
John A Wimsatt
Robert Wimsatt
John L Cissel

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george W eaton
L W greenwell
James P geenwell
Silvester Parton
John C bell
Alexander Reid
James H Nalley

S Humphry
John [Maxwell]

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Nelson J. P.
$15. & 15 days impt.
F. W. Downs

Remitted
B. M

IssdApr 9. 1861