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Petition

John M. Ross et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Place of Creation: Oldham 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: MG23-277
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1870
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FTP Identifier: 32210278

Mentioned in this document

People: Yager, Abram C.; Hardin, Abram H.; Gosney, Alfred; Bulton, Amanda; Magoffin, Beriah; Snyder, Elijah Clore; Bulton, Ellen; Netherton, Evan Morgan; Mason, Francis M.; Babbit, George A.; Wilhite, George T.; Smith, Isaac Clay; Smith, Isaac R.; Carpenter, James; Speer, James M.; Netherton, James; Middelton, James S.; Heitzmann, John A.; Rankin, John B.; Woodsmall, John C.; Ross, John M.; Rusell, John; Buckner, John S.; Ross, John W; Talandier, Leon; Bulton, Moses; Warfield, Nathaniel W.; Estill, Patsy Hickman; Snyder, Philip H.; Yager, Presley N.; Carpenter, Robert S.; Shirley, Robert; DeHaven, Samuel E.; Babbit, Silas; Bryan, Stanton Pierce; Babbitt, Thomas J.; Dick, Van; Hardin, Warner; Head, William B.; Benson, William C.; Hitt, William Ingram; Clore, Zachariah; Pinnell, Zack W. T.
Places: Oldham County, Kentucky
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Oldham County Court
Dates: 1862-04-22; 1862-05-28

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John M. Ross 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-0001-020-1870 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency B. Magoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Oldham County would respectfully represent to your Excellency that at a Justices Court for said County held on the 22^th day of April. 1862 Amandy and Ellen [...] free girls of Color were each fined in the sum of Fifteen dollars, upon a warrant Chargeing that they were present at an unlawful assemblage of slaves in the neighborhood of their residence We are satisfiied that they were ignorant of the wrong they were committing, and that they were prevailed on by others to accompany them to the meeting, The girls most of us have known from their infancy they are moral, Civil, and industrious and no charge of any misdemeanor has ever before been made against either of them, They reside with their Father who is a free man, and who is also known as an industrious, moral man, he was raised in our neighbohood, and he will have to pay those fines for his children unless your Excellency will remit the fines which we respecfully ask may be done.

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The old man & his girls described in this petition are civil industrious negroes and from what I have learned were doubtless decoyed into this meeting. & had no idea of its unlawful character — & will surely do so no more Hope your Excelley will remit.

Yours — S E DeHaven
If remitted send to me S E D

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~~Remitted~~ Respite 12 mo
B. M.

Oldham J. P. Ct
$15 each } Mis
Amanda & Ellen
Free negroes
Iss^dMay 28. 1862

Send to S E DeHaven

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The unlawful assembly alluded in this petition was at my house (in my absence) & I think it a case calling for Executive Clemency —

P H Snyder