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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-0001-020-0959 MG19-519

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Hart Equity & Criminal Court Commonwealth vs } Indictment for carrying concealed deadly weapons Judgmnt at April Term 1861 for $50. D W Whitman

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

J. W. Edwards County atty. J J Lock Wm Gibson T C Legett E. T. Lafferty Ruf Gavine P L Harper Cap Carden M Everyman H. S. Shoudy G. A. Waldeck J. T. Brown R. M. Clayton A M Adair A. D. Clarke W. B. Thompson A V Enlow J,, A,, Thomas H B Wilson Wm, Gardner J E Lafferty J A Edwards D, B. Brown Wm Knight Jr. R. T. Munford H, B. White John P Lewis J W Fitzpatrick Rhod. Hazlip Geo. R. Jones Jacob Devon A. G. Kerr Thos B Knight J, B, Chapline J J Dawson

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Hart Eq. Ct D. W. Whitman $50 Pet

Remitted B. M.

Iss Mar 6. 1862