Petition

J. S. Smith, Jr. et al. 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
MG25-127 to MG25-128
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2352
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FTP Identifier
32210752

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Dates
1861-03
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J. S. Smith, Jr. 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-0001-020-2352 (November 13, 2026).

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To his excelancy, Beriah McGoffin the govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky. Your petitioner Munroe Lane would respectfully state to your excelancy, that at the March term of the Nelson Circuit Court 1861, he was found guilty of a misdemeanor by the virdict of a jury of said County, and fined the sum of $200, & six months imprisonment in the County Jail and that inconsequence of said finding and the verdict judgment of the court thereon he is now imprisoned in the County jail of the County of Nelson. He states that he is very poor and has neither friends and nor relitives, nor has he any means out of which he can pay said fine or any part thereof — He states further that not having any means to satisfy said fine he is advised that he will have to lay in jail and discharge the same by imprisonment at the rate of two dollars per day, which will lengthen his imprisonment to a period of more than nine months and ^which^ will greatly impair if not entirely destory the health of your petitioner. He states further, that if he was released from his imprisonment, that he would by honest industry endeavour to earn the means and pay the fine imposed upon him. The premises considered

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your petitioner (and those whose names are attached) most respectfully solicits the pardon of your excelancy and that your petitioner he thereby released form so much of said penalty as relates to his imprisonment

J. s. Smith Jr
Joseph Queen
Jno. Morton
A E Mattingly
Sidney Smith
Charles H Allen
Len Troutman
J F Queen Jr one of the Jury
Zackhriah Carter
John H Taylor
S. G. Adams
A R Russell
George Patrick
Robt A Lanely
Wm G. Rowan
J, H, Nicholson
Q W Brooks
Frank Boyd
Edward Brookes
J S Wilson
J T Ohogan
D M Kelly
S. M. Murphy
Joseph Nilson
D Audel
B G[oldbrick]
R McHardy

A. C Wilson
D J Wood
J C. [...]
A J Mattingly
John Z Aud
Richard Higgins
Richard Bent
G Shroub
Robt Hagan
Jos Shader
F. J. Donohoo
E B Russell
Stanley Young
M M Spalding
L D McMelken.
John R Watts
George A Sapion
Jo Smith
J Wood Wilson
John P. Poole
Moses Black
Aaron Black
Alfred Coyle
W. M. Powager
Ralph Sheldon
J. C Mattingly
W W Metcalfe

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W. C. D. Whips
L. H. Edlen
N A. Cromer
S. W. arren
E S Watts
Jo t Calvert,
Lee Chambers
Wm P talbott
E. B. Smith Jr.
James Muir
James, Hite.
Harrison [...]
John Talbott
James Talbott
A. Edelen
William [Fuohy]
William F Graves
Tyler Wilson
Sanford Collings
Richard Adams
P R Abell
J. Eddleman
T.. T.. Jenkins Juror
H. W. McCown
John U Miles M C
A G Nall
Burr. H. Lewis
Wm Queen
H F Hayden
E. Mannakee
J S Bean
J. M. Haydon
Chas B Haydon

C. R. Craycroft
Geo W Pottinger
Samuel P Phelps
L McKing Jr
Joseph McGee
Bennett Druery
B L Blakey
P. Talbott
J. P Connolley
T K Marshall foreman of the Jury
Henry Nicholls
John Hammond
S. M. Young Juror
Lewis Hayden Juror
charles mudd
B R Thomas Juror
J. W. Muir
W M Powell
T. H Miles
Wm Wilson
Turner Wilson
W, R Grigsby
Wm Hart
C. B. Muir
R. R. Simmons
Vitus Welling
M P Livers
John Troutman
J. H. Hagan, Juror
F Wilson
John E Newman
C A Wickliffe
D. S Slaughter
J. A. Y. Humphrey
W. S. D [...]

[Page 4] As Mr. Lane is in confinement for the fine of $200 — the pardon should endorse a release of that also as he is wholy unable to pay it and the [...] he will well be

C A Wickliff
J H Harning
Alex Muir
J F Bullitt
A J Ballard
W E Garvin —
Pat Joyes
Hamilton Pope
Curran Pope

W. A. Nally
F, M, Minter
Alx Crutchfield
P Gl[...]
Jno Thruston
B, H, Hornsby
John S[...]
John M Alexander
J. D. Selvage
J. G Balu D M [...] C C
S. S. Bush
T. C. Pomeroy
P. H. Funk
John M Moore

William A Cooke
George Meadows
H C, Thomas
John L. [...]
[...] E Dansant
Edwd J Wilson