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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-0001-020-0947 MG19-500 to MG19-501

Boyle County, Kentucky Boyle County, Kentucky 1861-03-21 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 "3": Changes to page transcript. 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.
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To Honr. B Magoffin Govenor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner John May a citizen of Boyle County Kentucky respectfully represents that he has been unjustly fined upon a trial for a Breach of the Peace in the sum of $20. and costs before Sherod Burton Esqr at Perryville in said County -- that he has been forced to replevy said Judgment and that unless by Executive Interposition upon the facts hereinafter set forth he will be required unjustly to pay the same -- He states the facts of the case to be these that he was in October 1860 attacked on the public highway by a man named Scott Hawkley, who denounced your petitioner, as a liar, and then made an attack on him and struck yr petitioner with a rock, and your petitioner in his necessary self defence & no more, defended himself with only such face as was proper & necessary, but under some sort of prejudice the Jury improperly & unjustly fined your petitioner as afsd. -- He states that he is a lawabiding man that he has had no previously difficulty never had a fight before, and believes most honestly upon his oath that he did only his duty to himself & his family in what he did in his own self defence in the said case -- He states that the most of the Jury, all Except three of them have sent heretofore a petition to your Excellency, but which he learns was mislaid or not recieved

Wherefore he asks that said fine be remitted and that justice be done him,

John May

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Boyle County -- Kentucky

John May says he believes the statements of the foregoing Petition to be true,

John May

sworn to before me by John May this 21 day March 1861,

S P Burton J P B C

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The undersigned citizens of Boyle County and part of the Jury in the case mentioned in the foregoing Petition of John May, respectfully ask Govr. Magoffin to remit the fine mentioned in the foregoing Petition, 21st March 1861,

S P Burton J. W. Potts J F Caldwell James L Tucker Jr G. W. Crane J. J. Bust W. C. Armstrong M I Dunham T D Ladlock H S McGinnis A. H. Tucker J Carter

The undersigned respectfully unite in the Prayer of the foregoing Petition for a remission of the fine against John May

W. A. Hooe A D Haynes Tho Allen Nimrod Harris Ben. C. Allin

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Boyle J. P. Respite 12 mo B. M $20 } Breach John May IssdApr 9. 1861