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Petition

Thomas S. Bronston Jr. et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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: MG21-376
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1415
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FTP Identifier: 32209823

Mentioned in this document

People: Dudley, Ambrose J.; Kavanaugh, Archibald W.; Magoffin, Beriah; Donaldson, C. H.; Hawkins, Cary Allen; Covington, Coleman; Turner, Edward W.; Roberts, G. J.; Dejarnett, George; McCreary, James Bennett; Edwards, Jesse; Bennett, John; Freeman, Johnson H.; Francis, Louis E.; Runyon, Richard; Harris, Robert R.; Rhodes, Thomas; Bronston, Thomas S., Jr.; Biggerstaff, William L.
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Madison Circuit Court
Dates: --03; 1861-09-23

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Thomas S. Bronston Jr. et al. 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-0001-020-1415 (November 12, 2026).

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To His excellency Hon Beriah Mcaggoffin Govenor of Kentucky

Your petitioners would respectfully state to your excellency that at the last March Term of the Madison Circuit Court Thomas Rhodus was fined $10,50^cts for an affray & Breach of the Peace, Since that time the said Rhodus has died and Coleman Covington &Jesse Edwards ~~his~~ replevied the judgement aforesaid

We would respectfully say to Your Excellency that said Covington and Edwards, are quiet and orderly citizens of this county, And it would be a great hardship upon them to pay the same, And respectfully suggest ^& ask^ that you remit the same

J, H, Freeman
C, H, Donaldson

A,, D,, Kavanaugh

R Runyon

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Madison Cir. Ct

Remitted
B. M

Tho. Rhodus
$10⁵⁰ } affray
Iss^dSept 123^d 1861