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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-0001-020-0468 MG18-230

Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky Williamsburg, Whitley County, Kentucky 1861-01-23 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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Whitly C. H. Ky. Jan 23rd 1861

To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your Petitioner Catharine Knight would respectfully represent unto your Excellency that at the March Term of the whitly Circuit Court ^1859^ Judgment went against her son Benj Knight for ^$10 -- ^ ten dollars for an assault and that afterwards rather than see her son incarcerated in prison She replevied said Judgment and afterwards on the 18th of July 1859 The Governer respited ^the collection of^ said fine for the Term of six months and said time being out your Petitioner will have the Judgment to pay unless your Excellency interven and remit the same your Petitioner would further represent that she is very Poor hardly able to live and has a family and is now old and feeble and that her son is perfectly worthless and will pay nothing and nothing can be made out of him the premises considered the prayer of your Petitioner is that you remit said

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fine foror release her from the payment thereof for which she will ever feell greatful

Catharine Knight

We the undersigned Join in the prayer of the forgoing Petition & cincerely hope your Excellency will remit the fine

R. Boyd Martin Caddell Jos E Tye J. D. Gilliss W C Murphy John Smith S P Brawner J. Q. Barton Lee Leforce

Whitley Cir. ct

Remitted B. M

$10, } Replevin Bond Catharine Knight IssdJany 30 1861

fine for which she will ever