Petition

Thomas Craycraft to Beriah Magoffin

1862-06-16

Date of Creation
June 16, 1862
Place of Creation
Washington 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
MG23-402 to MG23-403
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1953
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32210361

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Dates
1861-10
1862-04
1862-06-16
1862-06-16
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Thomas Craycraft to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-06-16, 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-0001-020-1953 (November 14, 2026).

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To his Excellency B MaGoffin
Governor of Kentucky —

Your Petitioner Thomas Craycraft would respectfully represent that H C Miller being indicted in the Nelson Circuit for wounding one Bryant Shumate and required to give bond for his appearance in $1000 Your petitioner became his bond — that the case being called at the Oct term 1861 and Miller not appearing the bond was forfeited and a summons thereon awarded which was executed on your petitioner but not on Miller and returned for trial of the April term 1862.

He and Miller both lived in Washington county but about 14 miles apart He knew Miller had not absconded and believed the summons executed on him and that he would attend and defend the summons and afterwards learned with surprise that he had not and that judgement for the $1000 had gone against your petitioner alone which he had since been compelled to replevy — Miller is still at his home in Washington County He has ascertained and now states that when said forfeiture was made Miller was at home confined to bed by sickness and therefore unavoidably — absent and could have easily made that fact appear so as to prevent the

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judgment if said summons had been served upon him — Owing to the distance of your petitioners residence from Millers he did not learn of ^him^ having been sick when the forfeiture occured until after the termime of which judgement was rendered against him and he was moreover [lulled] by the facts he has stated from making inquiry or defence till it was too late to do so —

Whereupon he prays a remission of said judgment —

Thomas Craycraft

Sworn to by Thomas Craycraft before me — June 16 1862 —

W R Casey J P W C

The undersigned citizens of Washington county, believeing the facts true as stated in the foregoing petition and that the case is one which appeals to the clemency of the Executive unite in the prayer for a remission of the judgments — June 16 1862

C. R. Craycraft
R. P. Miles
S, W, Gill
J. H. [Rosson]
E. B. Pope
Jas H. Casey
Thos J Badgett
S. E. Fowler
Logan J. Bosley
L,, H,, Cea
P C Broyles
D. H. Spears
W R Casey
Zack Pope
J S Simms
J. J. [...]
R. J. Simms
Wm J. Robertson
J. W. Reinhart
Geo. D. Robertson
A Barnett
R S Peters
J P. Barbour
William Dennis
G W. Cornish
Dan O Police
L [Hanth]
James Green
S P Wharton
H. L. McElroy,
W. F. Spalding
Thos F McIntire C W C
Richard Smith
John McIntire
B. F. Wilson
[...][...]
[Wm]. Blackwell
C. H. [Shaunty]
E E. Green
John Marks
Robert Borders
B E [Shutzery]
Wm L Million
John E Clements
R C McThorn
T G Simms
U. S. Litsey
B W Linton
Jas Hayes
Wm Meeks
R Montgomery
R M Ozbourn
[Stith John]
T R Blandford
Daniel Kelly
Thos W, Simms
John H Short
Thomas Higdon
Michael Nane
B Montgomery
[...] Baker
Wm C Hilton
Henry. B. Moore
R. W. Thompson
Danl McClean
George Shindler
Thos. H Cusick
Wm Shehan
Wm Grigsby
B B Mason
H Rennart
J W Montgomery
A. D. Crouch
R. W. Wright
Deven White
John N White
H P Cambron
Wm P Montgomery
Edward Carrico
J. M. oBryan

M R Hardin
L R Thurman
Richd J Browne
L B Casey
A G Bevill
Thomas McShane
Jas Manatta
J. H. Underwood
J B Knott
C. J. Cunningham
B. J. James
William Ray
William M Edwards
Hugh McElroy
Joseph J Casey
George Borders
G W Taylor
Stephen C. Browne
Milton Rogers
E K Smith
J P Calhoun
Thomas Y Fenwich
Jas Sheay
Joseph Montgomery
J. S. Steenbergen
Jonathan Edwards
Wm Ohara
James E Kidwell
D. J. Mitchell
A Graham Canary
Michael Flynn
peter Shea
James Shea
W F Hall
T J. Underwood
W H Pope
Basil Logsdon
Stephen B L[...]
Alsop Rockling
Ben Hayden
Smith Riley
Uriah Shewmaker
R Simms
E. P. OBryan
Geo Clements
John H Parrott
Thomas Creager
C. C. Cambron
Jas E Redding
Thos. J. Montgomery
Charles Creager
John Simms
Peter Brown
J F Kimberlin
A [McElroy]
Thos Yates
L L Moore. J
Robert Reed
John H Milton
Edward. D. Kelly
C R Thompson
C H Polin
Henry Brown
J. W[Powll]
John M Warren
John. W. Kelly
J H Moffett
R. S. Knott
Walter [...]
J A Hayden
T T Philips
Joseph Blandford
G. J. Bosley
Nat Wright
Major Burnett
James Ferrell
Henry Oneal
Willam Pile