Petition

Asa Branson to Beriah Magoffin

1861-03-25

Date of Creation
March 25, 1861
Place of Creation
Taylor 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
MG20-63 to MG20-64
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1000
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FTP Identifier
32209408

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Dates
1860-09
1861-03-25
1861-04-01
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Asa Branson to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-25, 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-0001-020-1000 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency B. Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky —

Your Petitioner Asa Beason states that at the September term of the Taylor circuit court he was fined on a indictment in that court for an assault the sum of thirty five dollars that he has been compelled to replevy the said fine and have to pay the same in short time unless relieved by your excellency, that he was not present at the trial of the indictment and was deprived thereby from making a defence which he thought was good and if made would have acquitted him, that he was first assaulted by the person on whom he was charged with assaulting, that he is a very poor man and a wife several small children who are depending on him for a support — that it would be a hardship on his helpless family to sell what little property he has, to make said fine

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that it would leave them without the means of support. Wherefore he prays that your Excellency remit the said fine

Asa Branson

Sworn to by Asa Branson this 25th of March 1861

D B Moore J P T C

We citizens of Taylor county join in the prayr of the above petition and believe the said fine ought to be remitted

E L Barbee
J. R. Robinson
D B Moore
P. Davis
Geo. W. Aspen
W. Hoskins
A Branson

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Remitted
B. M

Taylor Cir. Ct
$35. Assault
Asa Beasun
Iss Apr 11 1861