Petition

L. H. Johns et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-06-03

Date of Creation
June 3, 1861
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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MG20-284
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1140
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1861-06-03
1861-06-24
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L. H. Johns et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-06-03, 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-0001-020-1140 (November 13, 2026).

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The undersigned Citizens of Powell County Ky would respectfully represent to the Hon Beriah Magoffin Govenor of Ky. That at the late March term of the Powell Circuit Court Wm H Forman a young man of about twenty years of age was fined fifty dollars for carrying a pistol Mr Forman & his family are poor and unable in these times to pay the fine without depriving them of bread & Mr Forman is now a reformed man & we ask your excellency to remit his fine
June 3d 1861

L. H. Johns
John Kennedy
Green R Hall
A T Pettit
A,, C. Welch C P C
Jos B Hardwick P J P C C
Green Hall Sr
Gipson Garrett
Jas P Johns
J H Scholl C P C C
C W Anderson
F W Holl
[Moheon] Hall
Solomon Tracy
S W Hardwick
Joe Abe Morton
S Grant Jackson
Caleb D Creed

Green Hall Jr
John groomes
J M Wood
J E Curry
Nary Holmes
Tho B Hall
H Rollins
Obediah Tracy
A. J. Tapp
Wm Roberts
J T Clark M D
Joseph L. Judy
A,, H,, Snop
A. C. Daneil
Wm Hakely
James Martin
Richard Morton
Hezekiar Morton

[Page 2]

S. S. Hale
Jas Shoamar
James Hall
John Halley
John Frenah
Wesley Garrett
Jack Wills
Wm Welch
John Bolen
Samuel Waters
Jon Williams
[Wm H[...]Tigg]
M Todd
James Croomes
John L Martin
Luther Martin
George Sheffield
H P Maxwell
A Holmes

A. B. Ficklin
Abe Hutson
G A Welch
J F Potts
James [Grvoovm]
Boon Williams
Zera Welch
[Secphus] Johnson
Richard Hardwick
James H Wech
Jas Reynolds
John Williams
Filip Hall

Powell Cir. Ct

Respite 12 Months
B. M.

IsdJune 24

$50 } Weapons
Wm H Foman