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Petition

A. Johnston et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1860-09

Document details

Date of Creation: September 1860
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: MG21-408
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1441
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FTP Identifier: 32209849

Mentioned in this document

People: Johnston, Alfred; Williams, Alfred; Magoffin, Beriah; Philley, Cyrus H.; Dycus, Elijah C.; Jones, Garrett S.; Malone, Henry; Flowers, James H.; Johnston, James H.; McBride, James; Dishman, John; Stice, John; Jordan, Josiah; Stokes, Richard; Wade, Robert A.; Blewett, Thomas H.; Walters, William B.; King, William
Places: Kentucky; Marshall County, Kentucky
Organizations: Marshall Circuit Court
Dates: 1860-09; 1860-09; 1860-12-01; 1861-09-16

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A. Johnston et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-09, 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-0001-020-1441 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency
B Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

We the undersigned Citizens of Marshallwould recomend and most respectfully ask that the find assessed against W. B. Walters and John Dishman at September Term 1860 of the Marshall Equity & Crimminal Court for two hundred Dollars each, be remitted, and as in duty bound we will ever pray &c
Sept 1860

A. Johnston
G. S. Jones
J H Flowers
C. H Philly
A. Williams
John Stice
R. A. Wade
Josiah Jordan
R. Stokes,
Jas H, Johnston

Thomas H Bluett
Wm King
E. C. Dycus
James McBride

Henry. Malone

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Marshall E & C. Ct
$200 each } Assault
W, B, Walters & Jno Dishman
Resp^d 12 Mos
Iss^dDecr, 1 1860

Remitted
B. M

Iss^dSept 16 1861

Respite 12 Mo
B. M