Petition

Alfred C. Tanner to Unknown

Place of Creation
McLean 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
MG24-233 to MG24-234
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2146
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210553

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Dates
--03
--09
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Citation

Alfred C. Tanner to Unknown, 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-0001-020-2146 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency
The Governor of Kentucky,

Whereas at the late March Term of the McLean Circuit Court a Judgment for [...] hundred dollars was rendered in favor of the Commonwealth against Robin Stringer and others upon a forfeited Bail Bond executed in the Examining Court by said Robin Stringer and others for the appearance of Bayles Stringer at the September Term of said Circuit Court to answer the charge of striking [...] Whitaker —

Now we the Undersigned Citizens of McLean County pray that Your Excellency may remit that portiion of said Judgment going to the Commonwealth for the following reasons to wit

(1) The Said Whitaker was in the first instance only slightly injured by the striking charged and has since entirely recovered,

2ndly The party Bayles Stringer was at last Court, ready and willing and anxious to be present and have his trial but was detained by Sickness which confined him to his Room —

Alf. C. Tanner Cllk McLean Cir Cor
D Little Pr Judge for sd County
Wm Calhoon County Att

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Wm. H. Overheels
A J Coffman
W L Bland
J A Miller
J, T, Mason
J. A. Birdwell,
J A Mason
F Karnes
R Shonnbery
M W Oliver Esq
J J Coffman
John Barett
G W Mullins
H Lyons
A. D. M. Mullins
Yancey Besbley
Thomas W,, Henry
John Bruce
B. F. Shutt
H Stringer
J Humphrey
J Donohoo
J Ry Miller
Benjamin Miller
Wm G Nofsinger

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Rejected
Tho P Porter
McLean Co