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B. J. Mason et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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: MG25-124 to MG25-125
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-2350
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FTP Identifier: 32210750

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B. J. Mason 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-0001-020-2350 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Govenor of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizens of Caldwell county and Jurors who set upon the trial of the commonwealth against John Dunn on a charge of disturbing religious worship and of which offense he was found Guilty and fined the sum of [...]Dollarsand five days imprisonment Humbly Petition your Excelency to remit that portion of the Judgement which requires saidDunntobeimprisonedwe state that said Dunn is a young man of good character and that theoffence of which he was convicted was coerced by intemperance at the time a fault which he has now discarded, he has taken an appeal from said Judgement in order to obtain the Executive aid to save him and his friends who are reputable from the mortification of confinement in Jail

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hoping that your Excellency will relieve this youth from the penalty of Jail confinement we are msot respectfully Yours&c

B. J Mason A. Jurer
J, P, Roscoe
Jurymon in the case Dixon Mcgrigor
T. W. Pickering

M S Hopson
Phil Guier
M P Stephens
Z. C. Stevens
Elijah Stevens
H, W, Cooksey
E. M. Stevens
W, H, M^cCaslin
J R Hewlett

William Nicholes.
Ja H. LeechJ. P. C. C
W S Talbott P. J T. P.
E. H. David
E Baker
Thos B Copeland
David Leech
Mark Scott
J M Morse
C S Morse
B. D. Terry
W. G. C. Morse
W. B. Brelsford
W^m N Gaither
J. M. Pool
John I Finn
Joseph Swatzell
Martin Jackson
F. M. Moore
C. W. Rucker
D. C. Mitchusson S^r Juror
D C Mitchesson J^r
W E Mitchesson D. C.lk.

[Page 3] J R Fraless.
F. W. Dodds D. Shff
Jesse Cooksey
E R Farrow
John M, Higgins
D. M. Kevil
M, L, Edward
G R Glass
Shelton Lamb
G F Imperson
Robert Miller
Jesse Stevens S. C. C
J P M^cGoodwin
J C Barnes D C.
E. P. Watkins
James E. Kevil
Jas A Johnson
W H Kevil
H. M Witherspoon
R. H. Lander
T B M^cGoodwin
J W Cluke
J A Newton
Ja^s H.. Hayes
T A Lowey. J. P. C C
E. A. Stone
J.. M Erwin
W. W. Pemberton
J H N. M^cCaslin
R J M^cCashin
P. P. Chambers
D Stevens