Petition

Robert S. Steele et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1860-03-24

Date of Creation
March 24, 1860
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
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MG20-246
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1127
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1860-03-24
1861-05-10
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Robert S. Steele et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-03-24, 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-0001-020-1127 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excelency/ Beriah Magoffin
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned would respectfully Petition Your Excellency to reprieve Enoch Foley who was at the present March term of the Bath Circuit Court ^convicted^ of the Crime of Stealing hogs, Said Foley is a Young Man, is ignorant and illiterate, and was induced to participate in Said Crime by another Man, who had great influence over him, and whom he greatly feared, until he became intimate with the man who thus induced him to Commit Said Crime he Sustained a good Character and was an industrious thrifty Young man, and that he is a young man of family and very poor, and his family depend upon him for a support, and in pardening him You will receive the commendation of a majority of the Citizens of Bath, and the humble prayers of his family: March 24th 1860

1 Robert. S. Steele
2 Wm Stinson
3 Joahn Kincaid
4 Joahn Cartanill
5 B f Massy
6 J W Turner Jr

7. J, W, Jones
8. Lander Burlur
9. Samuel M Dennis
10. Stevin Gilbert
11. Joseph Wells
12. Calvin Stoton

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13. Pery Kincade
14. Nina Wells
15. John [Copler]
16. G W Rains
17. Alen [Hart]
18 H [...][...]
19. J. McCane
20. H [Harlin]
21. George Durpey
22. William Suskins
23. B F Warren
24. J [...]
25. Benjamin [...]art
26. H H Ewing
27 J Stone
28. G J Boyd
29 James Sudduth
30 Wilmina Roberts
31. Edward Wells Jr
32 G S Cagle
33. Joseph Morse
34. Teavis Daniel
35 James Daniel
36 Howerd teal
37 James Housr
38 A Donaldson
39 A J Warner
40. Abraham Goodpaster
41. Andrew Lay

98 William Otis
99. M. J. Bae
100. Harison Copher
101. Allen Bromage
102. Charles Glover
103. Philip Williams
104. Robert Stewart
105. Thomas B Hamilton
106. T, F, Gudgel
107. Noah Patrick
108. S, P, Steel
109. Allen Gudgel
110. T Goodpaster
111. Thomas Barnett
112. Archer Wright
113. Volentine Goodpaster
114 Volentine Pieratt
115. Samuel kingcade

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42. James goar
43. James F Maury
44. A R Wright
45. T. D Lall
46. C W Hornby
47 William C D[...]
48 Joseph Gudgell
49 William, Welch
50. Joshua Soril
51 Thomas Jones
52 Jessa Smith
53 James Stahn
54 Thomas Boas
55 Benjamon Becraft
56. Samul Shutts
57 Thos [Brewster]
58 David J Cassity
59. Wm Classer
60. W. Norris
61. James Stinson
62. J. G. Crouch
63. A. E. Cory
64. Samuel Kincaid
65. J H Maze
66. I A otts
67. Jesa Dries
68. Benjamon Sexton
69 Stephen Cassity

70. C, M Stuart
71. Enoch Burns
72. Fletcher Donelson
73. John Cowery
74. A C Hamilton
75. Samuel McQuithy
76. C, Shultz
77. N Ryan
78. John D Arnold
79. M, P, Stephens
80. Jessa Claser
81. R, R, Moore
82. Benjamin Wells
83. Zacariah Crow
84. John Teal
85. W. D. Cassity
86. Edward Wells
87. G W Staton
88. W. B. Wilson
89. Madison Cassity
90. Wm H [Tripleett]
91. [P] Jacob Cepher
92 David Goodpaster
93. C P Cassity
94. R goodpaster
95. Ruben Copher
96 Joshua Craig
97 R, L, Tipton

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Foley s case
Bath. Peny.

Issed pardon
B. M.

Bath Cir. Ct
Enoch Foley
2 yrs. Penty
Hog stealing
Pardon Issd
May. 10. 1861