Samuel South 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
- MG24-238 to MG24-239
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-2149
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210556
- People
- Connery, A.
- Kahr, Adam
- Johnson, Anderson B.
- Williams, Archibald P.
- Duvall, Benjamin P.
- Magoffin, Beriah
- [Unknown], C.
- Graham, Charles G.
- Graves, Dandridge C.
- Bowen, Daniel M.
- Meriwether, David R.
- Whitesides, Ephraim
- Woirhaye, Francis X.
- Vogtsberger, Fredrick
- Jett, G. H.
- Robb, George W.
- Crutcher, H. H.
- Powell, H. R.
- Robb, James Calvin
- Garrard, James Henry
- Martin, James, Jr.
- Penn, James
- Graham, James W.
- Hawkins, Jesse P.
- Holton, John A.
- Quiggins, John B.
- Page, John H.
- Mullin, John
- Crutcher, John N.
- Sullenger, John, Jr.
- Cason, John W.
- Stephens, John W.
- Cox, Leonard James
- Button, Leonard Y.
- Lewis, Lewis Walker
- Alley, Nelson
- Anderson, Robert
- Blackburn, Robert W.
- Lawler, Robert W.
- Willhoit, Robert W.
- Scott, Robert Wilmot
- Miles, Samuel
- South, Samuel
- Shannon, Samuel W.
- Brown, Scott
- Noel, Silas Mercer
- Dickerson, Solomon
- Owen, Spilsbee Coleman
- Farmer, Tapley
- Callahan, Thomas
- Ford, Thomas Jefferson
- Page, Thomas Scudder
- Black, William
- Montgomery, William G.
- Greenup, William H.
- Bacon, William Robertson
- Dehoney, William S.
- Oliver, William S.
- [Unknown], [Unknown]
- Places
- Frankfort, Kentucky
- Organizations
- Franklin Circuit Court
Citation
Samuel South 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-0001-020-2149 (November 12, 2026).
The undersigned understanding that a petition is pending before the Governorfor the pardon of a slave convicted by the Franklin circuit court, at its last term, of the crime of attempting to poison several citizens of Frankfortand sentences her to be hung — or to procure the commutation of the sentence of said slave to imprisonment for life — would respectfully remonstrate against the exercise of executive clemency in the case of said slave either by the granting of a pardon or the commutation of the sentence to imprisonment for life