Henry Topmiller and Bernard Topmiller to Beriah Magoffin
1861-12-31
- Date of Creation
- December 31, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Covington, Kenton 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
- MG22-242
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1596
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210004
Citation
Henry Topmiller and Bernard Topmiller to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-12-31, 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-0001-020-1596 (November 12, 2026).
To Beriah Magoffin Governor of Ky
Your Petitioners Bernard and Henry Topmitter, would respectfully represent to your honour that, they were sentenced to the Penetentiary for one year this day. they were charged with Steeling 22 geese and they state that the geese as they believed belonged to them but owing to the instruction of the Court they were convicted of steeling them when they had no such intention wherefore they pray that they be reprieved and your petitioners will ever pray &C,
Covington Ky
Henry Topmiller
Bernard Topmiller
We the undersigned Jury men who tried the case of the Commonwealth against Henry & Bernhard TopMiller respectfully join in the forgoing petition for a release or reprieve of said Topmillers as we felt from the instructions of the Court to find them guilty but we think they both ought to be reprieved this
(Names of Jurors who tried the case
Cov 2931st 1861
Dear Gov. The foregoing names are the names of the Jury men that tried the case they ha asked me to draw up a petition asking the remission or their reprieve the statements in the Petition I know are true
will you please attend to this at your earliest opportunity and direct to me at Covington Ky
Yours with all due respects
B Magoffin
Kenton Cir. ct
Henry & Bernard Topmiller
Stealing 22 geese
21 yrs Penty
Pardon Issd