L. Pepper et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Document Genre
- Petition
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- 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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- MG25-122 to MG25-123
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-2349
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- 32210749
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Citation
L. Pepper 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-0001-020-2349 (November 13, 2026).
To His Excellency Beriah Magofin.
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Your petitioners respectfully represent that A. Wise was during the present term of the court fined by a Jury in two cases one for PTipling and one for retailing whiskey After long acquaintance with Mr Wise and considering the testimony upon which he was convicted not of the msot reliable character and the extreme humble circumstnaces of said Wise we commend him to your Executivte Clemency. The above offences are all the charges that we have ever known against said Wise, wherefore we humbly pray your Excellency to remit said fines.
L. Pepper
>Juryman
P McGuiger
J W Wylee
E N Owen
Jeptha Griffith
Fay, Young
B, J, Grubbs
R M[...]
Joseph W Hart
T W. Pickering
B F, Cantrell
R W Peek[...]
S. J. Lester
M S Mitchesson
Theophilus Caskey
G. R. Glass J
M R Hamley
R Grany as Juror
James Lester
John M. Dunning
M. A. Tickering
Thomas Sanders
G B Glass
W J Hariss
W. T. Fowler
J M Ravel
E R Farrow
J T Guess
W C Lander
J. B. Wadlington
Jerre Stevens
Jurors
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