Petition

J. P. Owens 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
MG21-344 to MG21-345
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1396
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FTP Identifier
32209804

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Dates
1860-05-30
1860-11
1860-11
1861-09-17
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Citation

J. P. Owens 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-0001-020-1396 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Hon B Magoffin
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Joshua P Owens would represent to your Exclency ^Excellency^ that on the 30th day of May 1860 one Richard Lock was arrested in Adair County on a charge of Grand Larceny and was required to give bail in the Sum of Three hundred Dollars, Your petitioner and one A B Preston & J M Cataline became licensed as the Security of Said Lock for his appearance at the Novr Term 1860 if the Adair circuit Court Said Lock, Preston & Cataline had all left the state of Ky before Said Term of the Court and Some of them are now in the Army, at said Novr Term of Said Court Said Bail Bond was forfeited, and Sums ordered against the Said Lock & securities your petitioner did not know until this was done that Said Lock Cataline and Preston had left the State, Your petitioner States that there was not proof Sufficient to convict Said Lock and he would have been acquited if he had appeared Your petitioner is not able to pay Said bond without great last sacrifice, he therefore prays that your Excellency may remit said Bail bond as it will ^may^ save your petitioner from Bankruptcy

J. P, Owens

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we the undersigned citizens of Adair County concur in the foregoing Statements, and we feel that it is a case in which ^the^ Executive Should grant the request of the petitioner we therefore ac ask that the petitioner be released for from the payment of said bail or any part thereof

Jno. A. Peebles

Jas Garnett
Nathan Gaither Sr
B, F, Wheat
Jas W Atkins
P W Hardin
M, E, Miller
J T Bramlette
R C Eubank
W. H. Hudson
Jo. H. Miller
H, G, Atkins
Wm Stewart
P C Hardin
Saml B. Field
Minfield Squires
S. G. Dabney
Jno. C. Dohoney
Sinclair Wheat
G, W, Dohoney
J H. Reynolds S A C
W N Robinon
W D B Owens
Wm H Cheatham
E P Willis P J. A. C. C

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Junius Caldwell (C, A, C, C.)
James. Y. Browning
James R Ewing
John D Murrell
James Murrell
A H. Judd
John T Barbee
James H. Woodring
E. Hicks
Jordan Page
Jury Skaggs
S. W. Briley
Z. Wheat
S. G. Suddarth
U C Owens
Jo. Coffey
Louis Triplet
Robt,, L,, James
J. W. Butler
Timoleon Cravens
J. M. C. Lisenby

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Remitted
B. M.

Adair Cir. Ct
$500. } Recog
J. P. Owens

Issd. Sept 17. 1861