R. P. Tredaway 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
- MG24-306 to MG24-307
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-2189
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210595
- People
- Holcombe, Abner
- Morgan, Adron
- Potter, Barton
- Magoffin, Beriah
- Bowling, Blevins, Sr.
- Daniel, Brittan
- Godsey, Clinton H.
- Lyttle, David Yancy
- Bingham, Elisha G.
- Tredaway, Elizabeth Ray
- Price, Gabriel Winter, Sr.
- Adams, Granville
- Pearl, Granville
- White, Hugh L.
- Herd, James
- Chestnut, John
- Dishman, John
- Pierce, John H.
- Parsons, John
- Dickinson, John S. M.
- Sizemore, John
- Herndon, Richard
- Potter, Robert G.
- Tredaway, Robert Peter
- Baker, Ruben
- Bates, Stephen W.
- Parsons, Steven
- Pierce, Thomas
- Roberts, Thomas
- Hatton, William B.
- Randall, William Harrison, Sr.
- Sizemore, Willis D.
- [Unkown], [Unknown]
- Dates
- --11-22
Citation
R. P. Tredaway 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-0001-020-2189 (November 12, 2026).
To his excellency Beiah McGoffin Gov of the commonwealth of Kentucky.
Your petitioner R P Tredaway would respectfully represent unto your excellency that at the presant term of the Clay Circuit Court a judgement was rendered against him for the sum of Six hundred Dollars upon an indictment Charging a violation of the law against the importation of slaves into this ^state^ the facts of the case are about as those agreed upon in an agreed case that was submited to the Judge of the Clay Circuit Court by which whom judgement was rendered against the commonwealth but the court of appeals [reversed] the case and upon their mandate the judgement was rendered — The petitoner is a poor man, with a family and his wife had an interest in some slaves in North Carolina which could not be divided amongst the heirs in kind and your petition bid off and of the slaves which was paid for out of his wife's estate and believing that they had inherited the same and that they were in the saving provisions of the statute the petitioner sold sd slave but he did not believe that he was violating any law in the sale of sd slave he makes the facts agreed to between the Commonwealths attorney and himself a part of this petition and prays your excellency to remit sd fine
R, P, Tredaway
And we the undersigned pray to be heard in behalf of the petitioner that your excellency may remit sd fine the petitioner and his wife are old & the fine would be equal to the value of the little Negro and ruin the petitioner to have sd fine to pay and we have not the remotest idea from the agreed facts that Tredaway thought that he was violating any law in the sale of sd slave
B Bolin
Thos D Sizemore
John Sizemore
H L White
G. W. Prce, Clerk, Clay, Circuit, C M
S, W, Bates
Respited B Mos
Respited —
Remited — & enclose to D. G. Lyttle at Manchester Ky.
Manchester
Gov Magoffin
I know R P Treadaway well and am fully convinced that he did not intend to violate the Law I once decided that he had been guilty of no violation of Law and the court of Appeals reversed the decision he is poore and unable to pay the fine I hope that you will remit the Judgement &c
Yours Respectfully
Granville Pearl