John C. Wickliffe et al. 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
- MG22-22 to MG22-23
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1455
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209863
- People
- Cox, Augustus K.
- Ellis, Ben
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Blandford, Charles W.
- Slaughter, Daniel S.
- McKay, Enoch Edwin
- Smith, Henry
- Mattingly, Ignatius C.
- Brown, J.
- Ellis, James L. W.
- Smith James S., Jr.
- Muir, Jasper W.
- Humphreys, John A. Y.
- Atkinson, John
- Applegate, John C.
- Wickliffe, John Crepps
- Hickman, John F.
- Queen, John Francis "Frank", Queen,
- Wilson, John S.
- Collings, John Wesley
- Queen, Joseph
- Troutman, Leonard
- Dragoo, Lewis
- Ritchie, Lewis
- Mattingly, Monroe
- Black, Moses
- Beauchamp, Newell B.
- Spalding, Nicholas M.
- Abell, Peter
- Hayden, Q. F.
- Lavely, Robert A.
- Humphrey, S.
- Carothers, Samuel
- Murphy, Stephen May
- Samuels, Taylor W.
- Sorrell, Thomas L.
- Newman, Thomas
- Linthicum, Thomas Prather
- Hickman, William A.
- Ambrose, William
- Burns, William
- Price, William C.
- McGill, William F.
- Slaughter, William H.
- Newman, William Henry
- Johnson, William
- Murphy, William
- Beckham, William Netherton
- Queen, William
- Grigsby, William R.
- Sisco, William
- Wilson, William
Citation
John C. Wickliffe 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-0001-020-1455 (November 12, 2026).
To his excalancy Buriah McGoffin govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky. Your Petitioner Elliot, W. H. Newman, J. W. Muir, Wm Murphy, J. C. Wickliffe & Wm Wilson would respectfully state to your excalancy that at the last term of the Nelson Circuit Court towit at its oil for about 12 months he was tried and there was a hung jury and he being a stranger and your petitioners having witnessed the trial and believing that the killing had been done in self-defence and with a pen Knife after Burns had first discharged a pistol at Smith, they were induced out of compassion for the accused to enter as his bail [...]not doubting but [...]he would appear in discharge of the said recognizance. They state that at the first term of the court after they entered as his baiil as afsd the said Smith did promptly appear
and the cause was continued and they believe he would have appeared at the succeeding term at which the bond was forfeited had he not gone to another state & there married. Your petitioners would state further that they are all young men with families to support and of but limited means and that if they have said judgment to pay owing to the scarcity of money and the present embarassed condition of the finances of the county they will have to make, and there will be sacrifices of their property, which they are wholy unable to stand — The premises considered you petitioners thrown them-selves upon the clemency of your excelancy and pray to be discharged and released from the payment of said judgment and they in duty bound will ever pray &c — They state that this is a case that was [...]before your excelancy upon a former petition and upon which you granted your petitioners a respite for 12 months —
J, C, Wickliffe
J. W. Muir
W H Newman
Wm Wilson
Wm Murphy
A K Cox
We the undersigned unite in the prayer of the foregoing Petition for a releasal of the petitioners from the Judgement refered to
W Quinn
Q F Hayden
Wm Ambrose
J F Queen
J W Collings
Nelson Cir. Ct
Remitted
B. M.
$1000 } Recog
J. C. Wickliffe & others
Issd