Correspondence

Mary Malissa Sheppard to Beriah Magoffin

1862-04-16

Date of Creation
April 16, 1862
Place of Creation
Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
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
MG23-192 to MG23-193
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1817
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210225

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Mary Malissa Sheppard to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-04-16, 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-0001-020-1817 (November 13, 2026).

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Maysville, April 16th / 62
Gov Magoffin

Dear Sir, I wrote you some days ago respecting a judgment rendered by the Mason Circuit Court, against William McClanahan, as bail for the appearance of my husband Robert H Sheppard, in the Mason Circuit Court, to answer the charge of passing two counterfeit half dollars.

I have received no reply, & I fear you have not received my letter. I tried in that letter to give you a truthful statement of the facts of the case, hoping and believing them sufficient to authorize you to release Mr

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McClanahan from the payment of the money. He is in great distress, & is anxious to hear from you. Will you please answer, and say whether there is any hope that you will release him.

I am in great distress, and beg your pardon for writing a second letter so soon. Hoping you will write me,

I am respectfully
Mrs Sheppard
Wife of R. H Sheppard.

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Remitted — see McClanahan's
Petition-
B.M