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 November 11, 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-0001-020-0399 MG18-119 to MG18-120

Green County, Kentucky Green County, Kentucky 1860-12-20 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky.

Your petitioner William S. Warren would most respectullfy state to your Excellency that on the first day of November 1860 he was taken before Gabriel Close a justice of the Peace for Green County and tried for rioting, and fined the sum of Thirty dollars, He was present when the riot occured and his brother in law being engaged in a fight he rushed in and attempted to seperate the combattants and preserve the peace but he took no part whatever in the riot, but the Jury fined him the sum above stated. He solemnly declares that he never committed any act in violation of law.

He is a poor man with a wife and family dependant upon his daily labor for a support, and the small sum of Thirty dollars is more than he can raise in fact he can pay no portion of it, owing to his poverty and the hard times. and if the fine is imposed he will be forced to lay in jail till the fine is satisfied and his family will suffer for the necessaries of live during his confinement.

He therefore prays your Excellency to remit the fine of thirty dollars as an act of mercy.

William S warren

Sworn to before me Dec 20th 1860 (D T Towles Examiner for Green County Ky)

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We the Undersigned citizens of Green County Ky would most respectfully state that we are acquainted with Wm S Warren the petitioner, and know him to be a very poor hard man, and he is bound to labor hard to support his family and can scarcely sustain them with the actual necessaries of life, Our section of your state is in a miserable and deplorable condition, and we earnestly join in with him in petitioning your Excellency to remit the fine of Thirty dollars, in order that he may remain at home and work for his family

F C Warren J F Warren G W Carter O D. Terrill M. D. J M Terrill A J Johnson Vanarsdall David Kely John Salsman Jeames Purkines Js Salsman Maston Thompson Eligha Skaggs Jeames Davis Thommas Skaggs Richard Drewin Eligha Dezarn O T Ward D T Towles James Edwards C. Darnall William Skaggs John C Skaggs Samuel Robson John Richards R W, Elkins jeremiah Skaggs W F Warren Blewford Etherton andrew Celly Mathew Skaggs Dotson Warren Jacob warren R A Warren J. D. Stinnett H S Shuherland E A Jones GW

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W. M. Skaggs William Clemons Jeremiah Elmore J R Heath W S Hodges Joseph Peace James D Reed Stephen Corwin William Peace J, Y, Strader J McCullin William Milby William Perkans James G milby Charles James H milby John Wallace Rector F" Vaughn S F vaughn M A Vaughn N McCullin William Jewell A Bradshaw Eliel Bell James Childers W Willis Skaggs James J Cantrel Joseph swigley James Conner John Despain 1 of the Joure Ed Graham R. Y. Graham William ware Silvester Merton

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$30 } Rioting W. S. Warren IsdJan 30 1861