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 November 12, 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-0001-020-1000 MG20-63 to MG20-64

Taylor County, Kentucky Taylor County, Kentucky 1861-03-25 Petition English 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 His Excellency B. Magoffin Governor of Kentucky --

Your Petitioner Asa Beason states that at the September term of the Taylor circuit court he was fined on a indictment in that court for an assault the sum of thirty five dollars that he has been compelled to replevy the said fine and have to pay the same in short time unless relieved by your excellency, that he was not present at the trial of the indictment and was deprived thereby from making a defence which he thought was good and if made would have acquitted him, that he was first assaulted by the person on whom he was charged with assaulting, that he is a very poor man and a wife several small children who are depending on him for a support -- that it would be a hardship on his helpless family to sell what little property he has, to make said fine

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that it would leave them without the means of support. Wherefore he prays that your Excellency remit the said fine

Asa Branson

Sworn to by Asa Branson this 25th of March 1861

D B Moore J P T C

We citizens of Taylor county join in the prayr of the above petition and believe the said fine ought to be remitted

E L Barbee J. R. Robinson D B Moore P. Davis Geo. W. Aspen W. Hoskins A Branson

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Remitted B. M

Taylor Cir. Ct $35. Assault Asa Beasun Iss Apr 11 1861