<title type="main">Daniel Shawhan et al. to Beriah Magoffin Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 3 edits between June 22, 2025 and June 22, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.

 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-0001-020-0598 MG18-422 to MG18-423

Harrison County, Kentucky Harrison County, Kentucky 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 "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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.
1

To his Excellency Gov Magoffin.

The undersigned your petitioners would respectfully state that on the 28th day of February 1861 Alfred a negro slave the property of Joseph Shawhan Senr of Harrison county killed Andy, a negro slave the property of Daniel Shawhan of Bourbon county, under circumstances which are stated in the minutes of the examing court. Your petitioners would state that they do not suppose that Alfred would be punished severaly, if at all, for the offence, if he were tried before the circuit court of Bourbon county, and would therefore pray that Your Excellency would therefore pardon Alfred, his master Joseph Shawhan promising to send him out of the state in the want of his being pardoned.

Daniel Shawhan Charles Rush John Stoker W. L. Mercer G. H. Talbott Jesse Current Jr. R Wadel T F. Bowen Saml. H. Preston W P Knight Wm J. McIlvain Wm. H. Dubler M. D. R. Willett A Waydell G D. Jones Jas M. Jacobs Jas B o'Brian Porter Cook Geo W Cook Thos. S. Duvall Jacob Rowe Henry F Miller A Lawry J. J. Dubler Tho. J. Current John Jacobs M. Bollen J Curelt

2

James. L. Northwell. C. B. C

3
4

James B. Dubler J B Moffett H C Lindsay T. J. Ratliffe John. Masoner Samuel Ewalt George W Wilson Beverly Hughs E D Lightfoot C. R. Shawhan Francis Tate William Tate John Boyle Daniel Duncan H C Ewalt T Grensaule Jacob Duncan A. S. Thomson

Harrison cir ct Rejected