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Petition

James R. York to Beriah Magoffin

1861-10-29

Document details

Date of Creation: October 29, 1861
Place of Creation: Anderson County, Kentucky
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: MG22-48 to MG22-49
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1469
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FTP Identifier: 32209877

Mentioned in this document

People: Magoffin, Beriah; Lillard, Christopher Marion; Hawkins, Dudley; Catlett, George W.; Fidler, James C.; York, James R.; Littlepage, James S., Jr.; Waterfield, Jesse C.; Betterworth, John C.; Jordan, John G.; Major, John; Bond, Jordan W.; Leonard, P. A.; Saffell, Samuel; Mountjoy, William G.; Thomas, William
Places: Lawrenceburg, Kentucky
Organizations: Anderson Circuit Court; Anderson County Court; Commonwealth of Kentucky
Dates: 1861-10; 1861-10; 1861-10-29; 1861-10-29; 1861-11-01

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James R. York to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-10-29, 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-0001-020-1469 (November 12, 2026).

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To his excellency the governor ^of Ky^ B Magoffin, Your Petitioner James York was fined at the Oct term of the Anderson Circuit Court in 1861 forty five dollars for obstructing a public passway. The evidence was that the road said to be obstructed had not been traveled for many years, though originally the road, That your peitioner ignorant of the fact, as a resent ocupant and ower of premices placed his fensce out close to the margin of the beaten road, covering about half of the old road, for a few paces, but the law is such that he had to be fined. He therefore together with the undersigned Jury who tried the case, pray that Said fine be remited, by the interposition of your executive clemency

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Your petitioner Says the above statements are true.

James R York

ISworn to before me Oct 29th 1861,

G W. Catlett J P A C

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names of the Jury
William. G. Mountjoy

Jno G Jordan
Wm Thomas
Jas, C, Fidler