Petition

B. A. Wheat 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
MG21-30
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1195
Rights
This image and its transcription are freely available to the public. Images appear courtesy of Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Transcriptions and annotations were created by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. When referencing this document, please use our preferred citation.; The use of transcriptions, images, or annotations from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce any material on CWGK is required.
FTP Identifier
32209603

The Civil War Governors of Kentucky editors are working on annotations for this document. Check back to explore the people, places, organizations mentioned in this document.

Dates
1861-06
Download (XML) Download (PDF)
Citation

B. A. Wheat 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-0001-020-1195 (November 14, 2026).

[Page 1]

To his Excellency Beriah Magofin Governor of Kentucky,

The undersigned a citizen of Barren County, would most respectfully, represent unto your Excellency that James White, a youth was sometime ago placed in the Jail of this County, for stealing a Shawl, learning the fact and that said James was a son of his Old [Prefector] Doct B. White of Danville in this state, he bailed James out of Jail And who has failed to appear in discharge of his recognizance, And consequently payment has been rendered against your petitioner at the present June term 1861 of the Barren Equity & Criminal Court on said bail bond for $200. He states that said James is a very unfortunate youth he seems to be a Constitutional pilferer of Small things, and is Certainly a [...] on that Subject. and your petitoner feeling a great regard for the Father of James, who is poor and [seems] quite an old man, And believing that owing to James, mind he did not regard him a fit subject for punishment, he bailed him out of Jail as aforsaid, He refers your Excellency to the accompanying papers herewith Sent. And asks your Excellency to remit so much of said payment as you can Constitutionaly do.

Yours respectfully
B A. Wheat

[Page 2]

The case mentioned in the within Petition I am fully satisfied presents the strangest grounds for executive clemency. and I know from facts in my ^knowledge^ possession and which are fully reliable, that it would not only be an act of Charity but of Justice to grant the prayer of the petition

Wm B Jones Atty for the Comth

Petition of Doct. Wheat


Endorsement on the same by the Commonwths, Atty.

Letter of W. F. Evans.