T. F. S. Robertson et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-06-11
- Date of Creation
- June 11, 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
- Box / Folder
- MG21-29
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1194
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209602
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Citation
T. F. S. Robertson et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-06-11, 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-0001-020-1194 (November 14, 2026).
To His Excellency Gov Berriah Magoffin
Your Petitioner John Kissick Most Humbly represents that at the
Your Petitioner [...] States that he inflicted no injury, he Merely threw a rock at Said (Mathias Lee John Cassity) it Missing him & ^Cassity^ Lee Sustained no injury by reason of the rock being throwed
The undersigned Petitioners Pray & asks that Said fine be remitted & that Said Kissick be for ever released from the payment of said fine They Humbly represent that said Kissick is a poor Man and has a considerable Family to support and that he (Kissick) makes his liveing by his daily labor. He therefore throws himself upoon the Mercy of Your Excellency, and ask that he be pardoned, and he will be guilty nomore
Your undersigned Petitioners Further represent that said Kissick is an industrious & laboring Man- & not to throw too many obstacles in his future path no doubt he wi[ll] prosper & make a liveing & support for his wife & Little children
Wherefore they pray that said fine be remitted and will forever pray &c
Yours Truly
T. F. S. Robertson
W. H. Norris
Nathaniel White
Andrew Nickell
W W Richards
J W McIntire
M. B. Lee
W B Cornett
J. E. Cooper {Seal}
E. H. Logan
Richard Hawkins
James W. Johnson
J A Hawkins
Silas Bartlett
A Keeton
H R Myers
H, C, Davis
John N. McIntire
Thos Christian
James A Thomas
W O Fant
J. H. Steele
George M Carey
J. R, Hawkins
C H porterman
Jeff. Amburger
R P Christan
Remitted B. M
Issd