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Petition

William M. Bowman to Beriah Magoffin

1861-09-11

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Date of Creation: September 11, 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: MG21-352 to MG21-353
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1400
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FTP Identifier: 32209808

Mentioned in this document

People: Wade, A. S.; Jenkins, Albert Julius; Corley, Anderson; Walston, Anthony; Hardy, Arnold S.; Magoffin, Beriah; Stoy, Charles S.; Savage, Charles; Johnson, F. B.; Hawkins, F. M.; Smith, Felix; Martin, J. M.; Kirkland, J. O.; Graham, James A.; Adams, James; Bree, James G.; Sartin, James J.; Fogle, James M.; Pruitt, James; Edmunds, James T.; Wathen, John B.; Wilkinson, John M.; Severance, John; Shuck, John; Chandler, John W.; Miller, Joseph H.; Spalding, Joseph; Noble, Lorenzo Hobbs; Berry, Nicholas T.; Riffe, Peter Bainbridge; Harris, Robert C.; Woods, Thomas C.; Chandler, Thomas H.; Purdy, Wallace W.; Harrison, William B.; Jarboe, William C.; Bowman, William M.; Rickets, William McAfee; Spalding, William; Wathen, William Wallace
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Marion Circuit Court
Dates: 1861-09-11; 1861-09-12; 1861-09-17

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William M. Bowman to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-09-11, 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-0001-020-1400 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency The Honorable Beriah McGoffin Governor of the state of Kentucky Your petitioner William M Bowman humbly complaining would most respectfully rapresent and state to your excellency that at the last August term of the Marion Circuit Court he was fined the Sum of fifty dollars for carrying concealed a deadly weapon, he would further State that he is poor and in a needy circimstaces and is entirely unable to pay the same he is married and has a family dependent upon his labor for support and the fine which if not paid in a short time he is informed by Authority he will be taken to Jail, he therefore in consideration of the facts above represented and hardnesS of the times humbly supplicates your Excellencys interposition in his behalf and that you will Gran a remisssion of the fine, Entreating I remain your most Obedient and humble Servant
Sept 11^" 1861

W, M, Bowman

Sworn to before me this 12th day of Sept 1861

L. H. Noble P. J. M. C. C.

We the undersigned blieve the statements

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above to be true

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