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Petition

Thomas C. Dabney et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1862-06-20

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Date of Creation: June 20, 1862
Place of Creation: Caldwell 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: MG23-419 to MG23-420
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1967
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Thomas C. Dabney et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-06-20, 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-0001-020-1967 (November 13, 2026).

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Wm Armstrong

To His excellency, The Honorable, Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, your Petitioners would most respectfully State, that William Dudley was during the present term of the Court, found guilty upon an Indictment, for Keeping a Tippling House and a Fine was, assessed against Him for that offense, for Sixty dollars and We being personally acquainted with the Said William Dudley, would State that He is a man with one leg only, and the other Seriously afflicted rendering Him almost entirely Helpless, and, He being, hard pressed to procure a Living. HWe therefore, pray your Excellency to remit Said Fine feeling that in so doing the Ends of Justice would be, fully, attained, We State, that Said Dudley, is a Man wholly without Means or Property.

From information & from M^r Dudley condition his case appeals ~~str~~ strongly to Executive Clemency 20 June 1862

Tho C Dabney
E,, P,, Campbell
G. W Barbour
James S. Lowry
J. C. Barnes
J R Hewlett

William Dudley says on oath that he is wholly without money or property and is deeply afflicted and has but one leg & the other diseased

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and is now a subject of the Poor House

W M Dudley

Subscribed and sworn to before this June 20th 1862

James Cook
A S Lamb
J. M. Ervin
John. W. Woodruff
Joshua. B. Stallins
Wm Alen
J J Withersoon
Baley Baker [...]
John R Nichols
Wright Nichols Jr.
E N Owen
Stephen Barns
J N Turner
C, T, Dabney
C A M Goodwin
E P Watkins Clk.
William C Lander
W W Campbell
A Reynolds
W W Williams

att B J Gray D C.
J M Harper A C C
L Pepper
J. W. Pickney
Will. H. Miller 5
F. W. Darby
J. L Glover
R. L. Wilson
J, C, Pasteur
R H J Davidge 5
John J M^cLin
N. B. Ratliff
W^m Carter
W. Clayton
J N Garrett 5
B. N. Davison
P Conway
H. Mason
A M Ford
Newman Estes 5
W. R. Gray
W. W. Carter
D, Leech
Isaac young
W S Talbott 5
E. H. Daniel
E R Farrow
J, P, Gracey
B Ford
M Dudley 5
Jas A Johnson
A. J. Hart

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J. C. [...]
W^m H Edwards
W H Calvert 5
W. H. Rent
T. L. M^cMary
James S Wylie
Whitmill Stalins
L. L. Egbert 5
John T Carter
Caswell Davis
J M Egbert
James H Witherspoon
Joshua [...] 5
W J EgBert
W C EgBert
G W Carter
W. W. Boyd
S. littlefield Jr 56
Comely Egbert
N. W. Egbert
J A Evans
John Stalling 60
W. H. Davis
Lewis Carter
H Woodruff
D. C. young
D McGriger
John M^cGriger
J R farless
Levin Nichols 68
W Fortalling
John M Goodaker
G. S. Dillingham
Y W Dillingham

Remitted
B. M

Caldwell Cir Ct
$60 } Tipling
W^m Dudley
Iss^dJuly 2[...]^d 1862

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G W Barnes
C. Stallions
Wm Barnes 75
John Barnes
Wm Littlefields
W. G. Hunter
Wm C galloway
M D Glass
G M Littlefields
S M Davis
Joseph Houton
D. H Howton
~~[...]~~ David [...]
G A [...]
J H Capps
[...][...]
S F Orange
W. C. Hopper
S. L. [Lafruad]
M. A. Pickeing
G M Stell
John Ashby
Willis Darnal
Wm Campbell
C B Lewis
H. T. Moore
John Lewis
V W Steell 100
Dol John Hopper ~~[...]~~
Martin Crow
John L M^cElroy
Cullen Carter
[...][...] 1005
W^m Finly