Petition

William W. Rogers 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
MG21-134 to MG21-135
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1264
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32209672

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Dates
1861-07
1861-07-30
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Citation

William W. Rogers 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-0001-020-1264 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Exsellency Beriah Magoffin Govenor of Kentucky:

respectfully your petitioner William Rogers reprasants that at the late July Term of the Mason Circuit Court he was fined by Said Court the sum of twenty five dollars for an assault and Battery upon John Sweet. Sweet called him a thief and other opprobrious epithets, smarting under this language he struck him but one blow, this was done upon an election day upon his return home and after Sweet had drawn a large knife upon one of the company-he most respectfully solicits you to remit said fine

W W Rogers

The undersigned concur in the foregoing petition

Henry N. Willett
Geo W. Walz
Wm Shouse
Tho N Balen
J. H. Rains
John Curtis

Jno D Taylor
Robert Gervin
Wm H. Loughridge
Edwin Brittain
Tom Francis
Wm Colvin

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John M. Rains
W H Darvall
John Hut
Peter L Parker
David Helrich
E H Wood
Azro Whitaker
Alexander Power
James N Wilson
C, P, Wright
C Bell
J. C. Brookover
Noble Dryden
John A Shepperd
W. T Tolls
Thomas E Grier
Frank Blanchard
John W Farley
lewis W. Singer
P J Green
W W Newel
[S W McMillin]
Thomas, V, Welsh
Nelson Whitaker
R U Watkins
N. P. Watkins

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Remitted
B, M

IsdJuly 30