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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-0001-020-0565 MG18-377

Clark County, Kentucky Clark County, Kentucky 1861-01-30 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 the Hon Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioners respectfully represent, that a judgment was rendered at the November term 1860 of the Clark Circuit Court Kentucky against John A Williams for Fifty dollars on a charge of carrying concealed weapons -- We desire a remission of that Judgment and respectfully refer to the Petition presented to your Excellency last October by John A Williams and others now on file in your Department which sought a Release from the Indictment, but upon which A remission of an alleged Judgment was issued, but that was before Judgment and by its terms could not be used -- it only came to Mr Williams' possession on the day before the case was set for trial, not giving him time enough to ask your further action, the only or best course left for him was to permit Judgment to go by default, and then call your attention to it, which we now desire to do, The papers presented in October as aforesaid will be found to contain very full and satisfactory reasons to justify your interposition, and we solicit a remission of said Judgment,

witness &c January 30th 1861

Robert S. Scott Chas Eginton Jno B Huston Jos T Tucker Willis F Sphar John H. Moore John Catherwood A. H. Buckner John B Foster

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Clarke Cir. Ct $50 } Weapons IssdFeb 5. 1861 Jno. A Williams

Petition for Williams &c

Remitted B. M