Petition

Daniel Hager et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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
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MG24-322 to MG24-323
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KYR-0001-020-2199
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Daniel Hager 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-0001-020-2199 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

your petitioners citizens of Johnson County respectfully represents to your Excellency that, Johnathan Ward a young man formaly a citizen of this county, now a convict by a Judgment of the Johnson circuit court on the verdict of a jury brought from Lawrence county for the term of ten years on a charge of having in sudden heat killed one Nathan Cassle, has now beene confined in the state priSSon over three years the Killing occured when the convict was so drunk that he knew not what he did, nor did he remember it on becoming sober. he was young and of respectable parentage and not given to intemperence or violence, the whole affair was one of these unfortunate occurences that some times occur from the sale & giving liquor to minors his mother is a widow advanced in years & of feeble helth, he is her youngest child & she is [...] distressed at being [...] of his society, your petitioners sugests to your excellency that his chastisement has vindicated the Law, and sufficiently impressed him with its majesty & powered the necessity of obedience to it they pray your excellency to remit his punishment, and liberate

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him, of the ballance of the time and as in duty they will every pray &c

Daniel Hager
Jas M preston
Thomas Short one of the Jury
Samll W Auxier
William J Wells
thomas waller
Thomas J Music
Enoch Auxer
James, Stafford
Samuel Porter Ser
Joseph Franklin
Joel Baud
Elias H Hale
J W Wash.
Henry W Walker
R A Akers
[Jasin] Hite
William Butcher
Samuel Spears
J W Huff
Henry L Porter
Jas E, Stuart
Samuel ,B, Hamill
Peter g Cunningham
Isaac Goble
J P Elliott
C C Price
John m Ward
E R Webb
Wiley Spears
William Hyden

Samuel Goble
William Webbe
William Cunningham
moses Wells
Morgan Wells
William Wells Jr
John Baldrdge
James W Wells
G W Wells
Wiley Montgumary
Thomas Webb
John Wells
Georg Wells
Jackson Webb
James Musick
Gilson Montgomry
Calvin orsburn
R. M. Wells
Preston Hall
James H [Morlett]
Joseph Boldridge
Nathan Meek
Greenvill Ward
James Meek
Henderson H Butcher
John Mullett
William mullett
Moses Wells
Elias Meek
Bengemon Mollett
William Wells
William Tackett

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David Ward
Daniel Bowen
Hiram sprigs
Elias Mollett
James W. Mollett
Andrew R Musick
Robert sprigs
Johnanthan Ward
William Crum
James Butcher
James S. Ward
Thomas Bauldridge
Shadrach Ward
Peter Daniel
S W Walsters
William young
Jefferson Price
Johnathan wardr. Jun.
Wm J Ward J P J C
Jas A Ward S J C
Thompson Ward
Ruben Virs
Jas H Ward
Chadrach Ward
Burtly Pack
John vanhoose
John meek
William S Ward
Humphrey H walter
William Epison Ward
Solomon Ward
Eli Crum
Benjamin B Porter

James Crum
Ephraim Medows
James W. Brown
John M Hall
W M Gobble
george [W Mcginis]
John Moore
Emery Delong
Jacson Mcginis
David Gobble
Harvey Delong
Joseph porter
Adam Crum
Nimrodd Haul
Canida L parter
Calup alen West
Reuben ,D, Wolfe
Stephen low
levi Blevens
James Blevens
George Daniel
Wells Blevens
levi Mollett
Valentine Vanhoose
Silvestur B miller
Rory pack
Pery C gilmer
John Gobble
Emanuel Ward
James Murphy
Bracken L Davis
Abraham Sperse
granderson short
Alfred orsburn

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Robert Murphy
franklen Price
John price
Jesey Price Juner
Batemon preston
Georeg S Psimer
Jesse pack
Moses vanhoos
William Ware
J,, B,, Friend
Horace Robets
Mick Sprading
W m Whitten
Hiram B Dale
V Vanhoose
g. W. Whiten
F M [whiten]
H W Friend
H preston
A Stacey
R Butler
Jas. Butler
A Bram[...]
Solomon Ward
Isaac Rice
William McKinee
Andrew Lunsford
J M fitch patrick
Abner Fairchild
Robert Alley
georg Butler
[Fn Re contey]
Ralph Stafford
John Stafford
[Geo] M House

B F Price
G. W Roberts
John ,H, Colvin
Robert T Flanor
John W Roberson
Farmer Dixon
W M W Vaughan
Silas Cimbler
Montravill Preston
J W fergason
G N Blair
Moretty Raly
Ebenezer Hamer
John J Hager
Harmon Conley
Thomas [Weller]
John, L, McSweeney
W. J Vonhoon
A J Price
Martin Wheeler
Jesse D Vanhoos
J W Walker
Nathaniel [Peckinridge] Jr
Andrew [...]
A. J. Vaughan
[LoRenso] H Strop

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John Stafford
James. M. Harvey
Sam P. Hagar
A peston
Phillip Cassaday
John H Allison
Francis.M. Stafford
W W Brown
Robert Meader
Eliphas E preston
William Van Hoose
William trimble
John C Vanhoose
Brackenridge Vanhoose
lous Blevens
[kirn] Calins
henry [...]
A W [Nickell]
[...][...]
James [...]
Thomas Stafford
David mollett
Jas Baley
John Mollett
Marion Childerss
James Childress
Martin M rice
G W price
Ephraim James
John Wm Robert
David Delong
Richard Damron
Isaac Meek
Isaac [Colliver]
Samuil Delong
Levi [...]

John Calvin
Bengeman f parter
Gorge Johnson
Ruben Crum
John M Beenes
Levi vanhoose
L T Moore

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Johnson County

A Petition to the Governor to Pardon Jonathan Ward convicted in the Johnson Circuit Court to the Penitentiary ten years for the homicide of Nathan Castle