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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-0001-020-0578 MG18-391

Caldwell County, Kentucky Caldwell County, Kentucky 1861-01-18 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 Beriah McGoffin

Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Whereas at the November Term of the Caldwell Circuit Court Thomas Simpson was tried on a charge of disturbing relegious worship and fined in the sum of ten dollars and costs and haveing manely the care of a mother and three sisters and in vary humble circumstances and this being the onley charge that is against him or that we ever herd against him but on the contrary he is of good moral Stating now we your petioners would ask for Executive clemency in his case by the re^m^ission of said fine and by so doing you petitioners would be under renewed obligations January 18th 1861

Thos M McGough J. A. Asher Jessee George Jeff C Asher A.. W.. Mcchesney L.. C.. Brown John P Stan C Baker J.. M. Simpson W Frahey H W Stone James M Bumpass James.. W.. Holyfield David stevenson R.. L.. Harper J.. G.. Morse T.. J.. Conner John.. T.. Morse Thomas Dunn S.. W.. A. R McDowell David Neho James Blackburn Z Blackburn L Blackburn W M Hobby

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44 121 56 48 14 W H Runstring Benjamin Board Samule S Simmons W W Blackburn Wm Laughlin Jones A Fletcher Henry Nelson John K Morse John McNeely D McGriger J. W. Holman W E Calvert William Calvert Alford Bessner F W Dodds, D. S. C. C. A T Wild C Nelson James Keeny Josyah Dunn W. B. Brelsford James M Pearce James A Newton W G C Morse William Riley John Holeman J T Dalton Wm Board John Stewart G B E Traylor W H Blackburn L.. D.. Stevens Samuel Riggs C G Eave T K Stevenson W.. M Stevens T. M. Asher H.. W.. Morse John A Biggs P H C Brown B. N. Dawson Johm H Stromott Jourdan Stewart T D T G Fredrick D. E. Sigler Wm R Langfield Morgan Holeman J W Sullivan W J Hillyard S F Grove W H Calvert J. R. Clift R C Boyd S H Leech R H Frien W H Fraley John P Dalton