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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-0001-020-0648 MG18-494 to MG18-495

Franklin County, Kentucky Franklin County, Kentucky 1861-02-18 Correspondence English 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 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 the Governor of Kentucky.

Your petitioner was fined at the present term of the Franklin Circuit Court the sum of $100 and Six months imprisonment in the county jail upon the charge of unlawfully shooting at without wounding one Thomas Barton. He states that he shot at Barton because he had reasonable grounds to believe that Barton intended to do him or his brother John Griffin great bodily harm. But the witness by whom he could prove that defense could not be found after repeated efforts to do so. Petitioner understood he had left the State ^is now in New orleans^ -- The way in which petitioner happened to be mixed up in the matter was an unprovoked assault of said Barton upon said John Griffin which resulted very nearly in the death of the said John

Petitioner therefore asks that said imprisonment and fine be remitted John Griffin has never entirely recovered from said assault & it is beleived that he will yet die therefrom

James Griffin

Sworn to before me on this 18 Feb /61 --

Jno M Harlan P J F C C

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The undersigned join in the prayer of the petitioner --

R. R. Bolling J. T. Daniel E T Nottall Th. N. Lindsey P. Swigert Jno M Harlan P. U. Major Com'th Atty Jno A Crittenden G. W. Craddock L. A. Thomas W. J. Chinn M. B. Chinn Jas P. O'Hara H. Hardie J. H. Garrard Michael Barstow John C. Hendrick Jonathan Berger Nelson Alley F. T. Hayden William Bryan C S Rohr J. Harlan John R Graham S. I. M. Major Dange S. Crockett A. J. James Grant Green F C Smith

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Franklin Cir. Ct $100 & 6 Mos. Imprisonment D. Griffin IssdFeby 19. 1861

Remitted B. M