John Lambert 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
- MG22-73
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1485
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209893
- People
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Armstrong, Charles S.
- Armstrong, James B.
- McDannold, James
- Pelly, James
- Hume, John B.
- Pelley, John F.
- Armstrong, John H.
- Lambert, John
- Ragan, John
- Patten, John Van
- Herbert, Josiah
- Stringer, Mason
- Brislen, Samuel R.
- Rich, Samuel
- Martin, William
- Stewart, William
- Places
- Independence, Kentucky
Citation
John Lambert 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-0001-020-1485 (November 12, 2026).
To the Honorable, Beriah Magoffin.
Governor of the Commonwealth.
of Kentucky.
Your petitioner, James Pelly would respectfully represent; that at the June Term of the Kenton Circuit Court; held at Independence — ^1860^ Ky, an Indictment was found against your petitioner, for cutting One William Stewart with a small pocket Knife, that at the
Your petitioner would further state that at the examining Court he was acquitted,. That the temstimony was about equally ballanced as to which of the parties commenced the cutting stewart being armed with a larger Knife than your petitioner, and cut your petitioner in several places during the affray. that stewart was going about within four or five days, after the difficulty, that your petitioner and stewart; have been up to the time of the affray, and since then on the most intimate terms of Friendship.
Your Petitioner — would further represent that he is in exceedingly moderate circumstances, being a renter with a family who are wholly dependent upon him for a sustainance, that it requires his greatest effort to pay his rent, for a small farm, and meet the daily wants of his family: that if he has the fine to meet it will cause his family to suffer great and almost irrepairable injury.
Woe would therefore ask your honor to remit his fine or so much asthereof as
may under the state of the above facts seem consistent,..
We the undersigned petitioners unite with petitioner, in a prayer to your honor to remit the fine
John Lambert
C S Armstrong
James B. Armstrong
John B HumeJames McDonnald
John Ragan
Samuel R. Brislen
Mason Striger
John F Pelley
Samuel Rich
Wm martin
John Van Patten
Josiah Herbert
John H Armstrong
Kenton Cir Ct
James Pelly Pet.
Remitted
B. M.
$50 } affray
Issd