Petition

John Conkey et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Petition
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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 1859-1862
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MG1-356 to MG1-356D
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KYR-0001-023-0120
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John Conkey et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, 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-0001-023-0120 (November 13, 2026).

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2 Ward
2 precinct

To B. MAGOFFIN,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

IT is asserted and believed that a body of armed men have it in contemplation to march through a portion of the State, to make an attack upon troops encamped by authority of the United States at Cairo in the State of Illinois. Whether this be absolutely certain or not, we are not able to say. Considering passing events, and the feeling between the North and the South, this seems likely to occur. Therefore, in view of this probability, and the terrible consequences that might flow from such an act, we earnestly request your Excellency to issue a Proclamation forbidding the passage of such armed bodies of citizens over the soil of Kentucky.

John Conkey
Johan Gerhard Wellen
H Geling
Kerr Meiers
OsKar Stutz
B S. McAtee
Philipp Reiss
Christian Gründer
Clemens Shröder
Mit Kegli
H Wolfe
H Niehaus
John Shotwell
J [Knurriman]
Chris Spiesz
Malford [Hermann]
f. obrest
Nicolas Schwartz
T, F Michael
E R Searing
H. A. Hunter

James. W. Osborne
P. Hehemann
William F. Prewitt
Anton Hehemann
Joseph Harker
William Lensing
Fr. Lensing
Heinrich Houdick
Morriz Lang
Herman Möll
H Wempe
B. Willenborg
H Reimpentheil
M Flaggenborg
Johan Hollmann
C [Kifford]
W. Kröger
G. Forsting.
N Hollenbarge
H. Niehoff
Be Hobach
Heinrich Pflock
C Koch
Dick Hall
John Strasburg
H. ostendorf
Joseph Uhlman

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John Faris
John Mc,Mahon
John T Reif
Heinrich Schmidt
Philipp Seiler
C Hofstatter
M Reid
Rolen South
W H Shoemate
Louis Stadler
J. Ott
G Farner
Mathias Ramler
Griff Rindar
Herman Heshamp
Joh Rowan
Friedrich [Dright]
F Almstedt
V B Cornwell
John H. Schmitt
Simon Boesser
Charles Schmitt
Josef Ludwig

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John Miller
Gorge Koch
Jacob Roost
T Haarnman
H [Schieley]
Frank Stoll.
Philipp Altenburger
Henry Rupp
W. Schmidt
L Schmitt
Philllip Fink
Ben Paul
Fritz Mathew
Heinrich Lûssinder
Joseph Mann
H M Weatherford
Wilhelm Brinkmann
Joh. Schmitt
Louis Gellmann
Jacob Mayer

Robert A Wolff
Henry Harpring
H Dicken
Georg Golt
Johan Holtmann
John Eich
Georg Liuz
L H Konig
[Freud] Hoeling
Engelhardt Conig
Lewis Jacobson
Leeland Branham
John, G, Kusterer
jacob Seibert
[...][...]
[Jacob] Heins
Morris Braüdel
Charles Diehl
[Joshua Rusch]
[Herman] Brill
Y. Geiler
[Grunnel][...]

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William Levey.
Isaac Lang.
Joseph Lang.
Shelby Kearth
Marin Baley122
132
261
J Tanse
S Wm Fink
Joseph Haseback —
G. Forsting.
J. F. Huback. —
Phillip Falter
[Zacharias][...]
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105
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Louis Trolsch
Bernad Radenacker
George Kofsmeier
309H W Murrell
A J [...]
Hiram J Johnson
David Hefferman
W. G. Dinwiddie
J. Mc.Clelland
M Sullivan
P. Fallen
W Renhart
J B Hinkle
Caspar [Worall]
John F. Ditsh

Will L Stratton
Penn W Anderson
John Finsen
William pursell
[Joseph S Mulroney]
[Frank] Seifert
Franz Seralmüller
John Reckerdt
Jacob Kuber
John Waker
Friedrich Bläuer 205
F Drabnich
Joseph Kampf
Carl Bauermann
William Harnikel
Carter. W. Tillen
Conrad Moser
A. Stepenhorst
Joseph Pfeifer
[...][Engelhardt]
K Schläfer. 225
C. M. möller [...]
N [...] —
Frank Rösser
Ernst Schmidt
J. S. Murrell
H, Praka
P [Ayka]
[Lucien]Dick