Petition

Albert Shannon 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
MG21-143
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1269
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FTP Identifier
32209677

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Dates
1861-07
1861-07
1861-07-16
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Citation

Albert Shannon 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-0001-020-1269 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah MaGoffin
Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Albert Shannon would respectfully represent to your Excellency that on the [...] day of July [...] 1861 he was tryed before John R Graham Esq Police Judge of the city of Frankfort upon a warrant charging your petitioner with having committed a Breach of the peace in the said City on the night of the [...] day of July 1861by loud Your petitioner would represent that he was on said warrant fined The Sum of five dollars & costs. & would respectfully ask that your Excellency will exercise Executive Clemency towards him by remitting so much of said fine as is not due to the officers of said City

Respectfully
Albert Shannon

We the undersigned would respectfully unite with Albert Shannon his above Petition —

Will H. Sneed
Gray J Todd
W M Stephens

H I Todd
A Kahr
P Joyce

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Frankfort Po. Ct


A Shannon
Petition to the Governor

Respite 12 Mos
B, M

$5. } Breach

IssdJuly 16 1861