Petition

James A. Dawson 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
MG23-335
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1908
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FTP Identifier
32210316

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Dates
1860-10
1861-04
1862-05-09
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Citation

James A. Dawson 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-0001-020-1908 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency
Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners beg leave to represent unto your Excellency, that at the October Term 1860 of the Hart Equity & Criminal Court a Judgment was rendered against Coleby Shipp in behalf of the Commonwealth for one hundred dollars, upon a forfeited Bail Bond of one Richard Murray indicted in said court for assault & Battery

That afterwards towit at the April Term 1861 of said court the case against sa Murray was tried and a verdict returned agset him for the sum of tenDollars, and judgement entered accordingly

They do not believe that sa Murray failed to attend at the time specified in his said Bail Bond, by the procurement or consent of said Shipp, and as the case was a trivial one and to pay the amount of the Judgment would be a great hardship on said Shipp they therefore respectfully ask its remission

Names
Jas A Dawson
R D Murray
A D Clark
J A Waldeck
Jas. H Compton
R. W Compton
J W Fitzpatrick
W B Brown
Edm

Names
K Jameson
H. W. Shuffitt
B. L. Kerr.
W. D. Lester
D M Carden
P. S Maxy
N. C. DeWitt
R. B. Gaddin
J B Cobb

[Page 2]

Edmd Gardner
J. T. S. Brown
H D gett
N A Hanyes
A G Kelley
Saml Renfro
R D Taylor
[...] Taylor
G W Helm
J M quisenbery
B F [...]
T J Helm
John R Leslie
D. E. W. Smith
E.. T.. Owen
W. C. Fergusan
[...] Wheeler
R S Dawson
S C Weller
J A Smith
Alx. McHatton
Wm Gardner
Wasington Wright
Wm. G. Brent
Chas D Weller
Cass Carden
L. B. Carter
C N Dixon
J. T. Price
Saml Cox
V Garvin
J M Wilson
J. T. Brown
R. [...]

Hart Equity Ct

Remitted
B.M.

$100 } Recog
C. Shipp
Issd May 9. 1862