<title type="main">J. A. Hagan et al. to Beriah Magoffin Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 3 edits between June 22, 2025 and June 22, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.

 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-0001-020-0994 MG20-53

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 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.
1

We whose names are hereto attached respectfully represent to his Excellency Govenor Magoffin that Francis W Downs ^is^ in the county Jail of Nelson County confined for the term of fifteen days from & after the 30 March 1861. for a Breach of the peace He has a wife & one child depending upon his daily toil for support & knowing Downs to be a clever man and this Breach of the peace being the only thing Whereof we his neighbors ever knew him to be guilty & knowing that his family must Suffer on account of his imprisonment & that the present time is all important with him to pitch his crop for the coming season, we respectfully ask that he be released & his fine which is $15.00 be remitted He is a poor man & $15.00 which to some persons would be insignificant is to him more money than he can spare from the support of his family -- we make this petition not at his request & without his knowledge & in order that he may be enabled to go home to his family where he is needed indeed

J A Hagan george Ball John R. geenwell Joseph Boon John B Hagan Isaac Ball Henry monarch James W Burns John Ball Henry Howard Charles mudd Edward Boon Thomas A Bowling Richard E Joseph H Edlen Stephen Wimsett Wm J Metcalf Basil Avis William Bartly James P Ballard John A Wimsatt Robert Wimsatt John L Cissel

2

george W eaton L W greenwell James P geenwell Silvester Parton John C bell Alexander Reid James H Nalley S Humphry John Maxwell

3
4

Nelson J. P. $15. & 15 days impt. F. W. Downs

Remitted B. M

IssdApr 9. 1861