<title type="main">John Donan et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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-0001-020-0953 MG19-510

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Hart Equity & Criminal Court Commonwealth vs } On Indictment for an assault and battery Judgment at the April Term 1861 for $40. Oliver Clark William Clark Fleming Short

To his excellency B Magoffin Gov. of Kentucky your petitioners citizens of Hart county would respectfully request of your excellency to remit the above mentioned fine believing as we the case is one in which the executive as clemency may be properly exercised

Jno. Donan James T. Brown A M Adair Wm Knight Jr J E Lafferty H S Shoudy J W F M paterick A V Enlow R. E. Rucker Robert Armstrong J. A Markwell Dr W W Drane John. W. Key J B Waddle Tharp Lewis B knight W. B. Brown J. Ryan W, H, H, Jett Wm Knight Senr D. W. W. Ditman R. S. Danron J, B, Chapline Jas A. Dawson W, B, Craddock J, A, Waldeck John P Lewis M. Ettlinger Plesant Purkins H. D. Jett William D Richardson H,, B,, White J. J. Dawsons, Wm Gibson D,, G, Overfell T. H. Logsden J. A. Edwards R. T. Munford Jans Goin P Buckner J. T. S. Brown sr W, C, M, Thomas J. P Knight

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J M Stotts Lewis Caswell J M Averey A J Gardner William. T. Maupin Jesse Fuqua Robert T Poor A Wilkerson J,, A,, Thomas F A Smith Wm M. Wright A. M. Goodman J. W. Edwards County Atty John. f. Kerr George. J. Goodman G W, Jones Thomas Higsdon W. D. Lester W G Thorpe W B Thompson Wm Grubb Nathan A Mcdowel B, H Jones

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Hart E & C Ct Remitted B. M. $40 } Assault Oliver Clark & others Issd. M=Sept 7th 1861