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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0215 MG17-175

Boyle County, Kentucky Boyle County, Kentucky 1860-11-28 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency the Governor of Ky

Your Petitioner Michael D Stretch states that at the Feburary Term of the Boyle Circuit Court he was tried and fined $50 -- under an indictment charging him with trading with a negro He states that upon a former Petition your Excellency respited said fine for eight months said respite expired on the 12th day of this month. He states that the officers of the law are about to carry into execution said judgment & the result will be his incarceration in jail as he is unable to pay the sum, He states that he has been unable to do and perform any work for several months on account of great & severe affliction in his eyes. he states that he has a wife & three children & he & they are almost in a starving condition on account of his inability to perform so little labor, In view of all these facts he prays your Excellency to remit said fine as in duty bound will ever pray

Michael D Stretch

Sworn to before me by Michael D Stretch Nov 28th 1860

Att Jas. F. Zimmeran Clk By Geo. D. Boldrich D. C.

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We join in the prayer of the within petition

M Shemham A, Gallatin Talbott

Boyle Cir. Ct. $50 } Trading with a slave M. D. Streatch Respd 12 Mos IssdDec 10. 1860

Respite 12 mo B, M