Petition

Thomas M. Freeman to Beriah Magoffin

1862-01-14

Date of Creation
January 14, 1862
Place of Creation
Frankfort, Franklin 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
MG22-308
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1647
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FTP Identifier
32210055

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Dates
1861-11
1862-01-14
1862-01-14
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Thomas M. Freeman to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-01-14, 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-0001-020-1647 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency, Governor Magoffin:

Thomas M Freeman states that on the [...] day of November 1861, he was by the Police Court of Lawrenceburg fined Eleven dollars and five cents on a charge of a breach of the Peace, originating in a difficulty with J. W. Lane. It grew out of a conversation on political subjects, but the affray which ensued was not caused by any misconduct of the undersigned. When reading an account of the inauguration of a provisional government by the convention at Russellville, the undersigned expressed his condemnation of said movement and the famlies engaged in it, and for this expression of his sentiments, he was assulted by said Lane. I acted on the defensive, and did nothing to invite or justify the attack on me. Lane was acquitted by the jury, while the affiant, was fined the above mentioned sum.

Affiant is so circumstanced that he would not be able to pay the fine without much inconvience, and being conscious of his innocence he respectfully asks for a remission of said fine.

Tho. M. Freeman

Subscribed & sworn to by Tho M Freeman before me Police Judge of the city of Frankfort this 14th day of January 1862

John R Graham P J C F

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Lawrenceburg Po. Ct
$11.05 } Assault
Tho. M. Freeman
Respd 6. Mos.
IssdJany 14 1862