Emery Whitaker et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Mason 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
- MG25-29
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-2283
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210683
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Citation
Emery Whitaker 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-0001-020-2283 (November 12, 2026).
To his Excelency Bariah Magoffin Govener of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
The undersigned members of the Mason Bar respectfully solicit you to pardon David Douglass convicted of manslaughter at the present April term of the Mason Circuit Court They concur with the jury by whom he was tried: that his cause (as one for the fit exercise of Executive clemency. and hope you will pardon him and restore him to his family.
Emery Whitaker.
Geo W Tulser
Will P. Coons
Jno M Duke Jr
Jno R. Clarke
W P Conwells
W.. S.. Frank
J G Hickman
Jno D Taylor
H. P Whitaker.
Tho B Stevenson
H Taylor
W H Savage
Wm B Parker Jailor
W. W. Baldwin Sheff M. C