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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-0001-020-0917 MG19-456 to MG19-457

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To the Govenor of Ky

-- Your Petitioner John Hill & his neighbors state that on the day of he as indicted in the Madison circuit court for Gaming & gave an obligation with John H. Land to appear in said case & did attend two days & the case was not called & he failed to attend on the 3rd day & the case was called & his recognizance forfeited & he was fined twenty dollars & since that a Judgment has been rendered against Your petitioner Hill & John H Land his surety for two hundred dollars & costs & an execution is in the sheriffs hands against the bodies of Hill & Land & Hill is unable to pay the same is a poor hard working man & has never got out of the way -- The twenty dollar fine paid by him is as much as he ought to suffer & they respectfully request the Govenor to remit the two hundred dollars or such part of it as he has power to do -- The Judgment for the two hundred dollars was rendered at September term 1860

J T Berry Avory Davis Charles W Burriss S greening B H Jeffries J T Bentley Jos M Holman O. M. Taylor John F M Hill Allen Million W W Moore Thos Dejarnatt Wm Shotts Jon Foster J T Warren Alex Warren

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B Perry Baker Wm Barnes Joseph Heathman Nathan Roberts Woodson Hawthman John Hawthorne Turmon Million Travis Million jr Thomas H Reynolds M f henesa M W Hand John E Davey Wm S Taylor Joseph M Renfrow John Newby Down Hendon Nelson Newby James Roberts James Hendon Thomas D Keley Squire Herndron William Goggin James Agee Benjamin F Willis John Code J A A G Agee Frankling goins Amos Agee J F Salle N. D. Burross William Motley David vincent Thos Ferrell Wm. Q. Caperton Vincent Jon F. Land G. B. Harvey Wm H Masters William Collens Thos Smith plesent Turner Squire Million Green B Million Esq Stephen Salle J. H. Berry Geo Dejarnatt A G Burton I W Caperton W. H. Caperton Eu W Turner D. W. Chenault J. K. Wilson A. C. Turner C A Hawkins Wm L. Neale R. T. Milliion Samuel, M, Fott Thomas Patterson David Irvine D T Patrick Jno B. Huston J M Shackelford R Runyon C F Burnam C H Breck

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I conccur in the within petition

W C Goodloe C. c Judge James H. Embry

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Madison Cir Ct John Hill Petition Govenor of Ky $200 } Recog Remitted IssdApr 1. 1861