Petition

J. K. Howard 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
MG19-436
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2392
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FTP Identifier
32210792

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Dates
1860
1861-04-09
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Citation

J. K. Howard 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-0001-020-2392 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency The Govenor of the State of Kentucky

your petitioners Citizens of the County of Morgan would Respectfully represint to your Excellency that at the Spring term of the Morgan Circuit Court 1860 John Burton Senior John Burton Jr and Jesse Burton were fined by Said Court each fifty Dollars for selling their votes

They are each poor men and not able (in Justice to their families) to pay said fine we think the Mr Burtons have been sufficiently punished for said offences by having their franchise taken away from them. Wherefore they pray in much mercy therefore That said fines may be Remitted

J, K, Howard 1.
Jas Rowe 2
Lewis Adkins 3
Calvin Goodman 4.
Stephen Stephens 5
Miles Whitt 6
Isaac Brown 7.
Brxton. Adkins 8.
Robert Miller 8.
J W Bowling 10
H J [Holday]
H D Porter
John Dehart
Calvin Mabry

J. M. Vansant
D. C. A. Gray
L A Thornbury
Calven adkins
J. W. Conn
Jarrid [south]
william Lewis
Bluford [...]
[...] Isom
M. L Miller
Thomas Carter
D. Horton [...]
James P Adkins
R Humphreys

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Morgan Cir. Ct
$50 each } Misdemeanor.
Jno. Burton Sr & others

Respd 12 mos

IssdApr 9. 1861