Petition

Richard Singleton et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-08-25

Date of Creation
August 25, 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
MG21-287
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1354
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FTP Identifier
32209762

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Dates
1861-08-25
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1861-08-31
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Richard Singleton et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-08-25, 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-0001-020-1354 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Exl B. Magoffin Governor of Kentucky. We the under signed state that we are jurors that tried Jacob Scarborough for killing Robt Aulder, and upon the hearing the evidence we thought we could not clear him but we ask your Exln to pardon him for the balance of his time not served out, August 25th 1861,

Richd Singleton
W. C. Derby
F B Debord
Alen Owens
James Thompson
Wilson Crown
Wm Roberts
James M. Crawfort
Henry C Brooks
T W Reynolds
Wm Southard

I E T. Fish clerk Rockcastle circuit court certify that the forgoing eleven subscribed names to the above petition are the names of eleven of the JuyJury who tried & convicted Jacob Scarbrough to the penitentiary at the Feby Term of said court 1861 and that the other Juror is absent from Rockcastle county

Given under my hand 31st day of August 1861

E T, Fish, clerk
Rockcastle Circuit Court
Ky