Daniel Lewis to Beriah Magoffin
1861-03
- Date of Creation
- March 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
- MG21-118 to MG21-119
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1251
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209659
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Citation
Daniel Lewis to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03, 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-0001-020-1251 (November 13, 2026).
To His Excellency B Magoffin Governor of Kentucky —
This affiant Daniel Lewis states that on the
He states that the facts are these- This affiant resides in this County, has a wife and an aged mother dependant upon his labor for their daily bread. He has been living in a house Joining his brothers house with only a passage between them. On the day he was charged with committing a breach of the peace his brothers wife had got angry at him about some trivial matter and as affiant was passing from his own house out through the passage she called to him and began abusing him, some words passed between them and she struck affiant with a shovel while he was still in the passage, before affiant had time to strike her after receiving the blow from the shovel he was caught by a brother of affiants, and affiant went out without ever striking her at all,
Affiant states that she then procured a warrant to be issued against him and had him prosecuted by the County Atty for a breach of the peace. Affiant being very poor was not able to employ regular counsel to defend him, and he is satisfied great injustice was done him on the trial. Affiant being ignorant of law and having no proper advisor-
He states that he had no wish or intention to commit a breach of the peace by striking said woman or any one else- said woman is the wife of affiants brother and the difficulty and prosecution was the result of her spiteful
feelings towards him for which he had given her no sufficient provication,
Affiant being quite poor and his wife and mother being dependant upon his daily labor the verdict of the Jury under the circumstance is he thinks entirely wrong and is a great hardship upon him- and injureous to his family
Wherefore he prays Your Excellency to remit said fine and imprisonment &c —
Daniel ^his X mark^ Lewis
Sworn to before me by David Lewis this day of
Jetson Moen J P W C
The undersigned citizens Join in the pray of the petitioner Daniel Lewis —
Jetson Moen
Samuel O Mcmakin
Jno R Moose
D C Breckenridge
John L Moose
William. T. Hardesty
John McNulty
Edward,, G,, Lewis
James ^his X mark^ Lewis
Matthew Yocum
Charles Hungate
D. M Yocum
G. B. Foster
A Z Foster
A Shimmerhorn
T H Henderson
W H Menly
Charles ^his X mark^ Berkhead
John ^his X mark^ Hardin
Charles Hardin
P Daniel Cheatham
John Cheatham
Charles ^his X mark^ Hardin
John ^his X mark^ Armstrong
William O Harry
Billy White
W A Hungate
Samuel Cheatham
James M. Lynch
Meridith Lynch
R A Breckenridge
W T Ewing
John Cleary
Samuel Harris
Ben talylor
David Thomas
Remitted
B M
Issd