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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-0001-020-1115 MG20-224

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His Excelency The Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner would respectfully represent unto Your Exelency that at the March Term 1861, he was found guilty and fined Thirty dollars on an Indictment for an assault. in the Bath Circuit Court. Under such circumstances as he was unable to explain owing to the absence of any person that could explain, the whole circumstances under which. the assault was made. Your petitioner states most positively, that he only acted in self defence & was compeled to do who he did purly in self defence and that he is a poore man. scarsly able to make a support for his wife & children. he would therefore ask your exelency. to remit said fine in duty bound he will ever pray. May 25th 1861

Harry Coffer

we the undersigned citizens of Bath County would state to your Excelency. that we are well acquainted with Mr Hanson Coffer the above petitioner. & some of us have a knowledge. of the facts & circumstances, attending his case, that he is an honest industrious man, with a large family and from all we Know and believe we think his case require exective clemency, and would therefore aske a remission of the fine

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C. B. Steele J, L, Hurt C. W. Richards L. G. Carrick A. Hart W. Nicholas M D John Wilson H H Ewing R M Burbridge B. D. Nixon Thos Fadeler W. W. Brown John Cartwell O, Willson J Willson John H Gudgell Jno Ficklen John Jackson Wm H Tupett A B Wilson R Harper T W Crouch Daniel Harper George Spencer W H T Mays Thomas B Hamilton A L wright Wm moor Wm Clayton B B Shattz Wm P Griggs J E Rice Z G Barns R L Thompson J. P. Filklin James Suddeth Charles Bailey George Jackson Lewis Snedegon Jr Samuel G Boyce R M Conner R Gudgell Noble wright E Darnell S T Atchison S. F.. Jones James Stone W. J. Shrout J A J Lee Robt Wells J M Daugherty W. Collins S A Daugherty B D Lacy Joseph Gudgell G J Boyd Ira Peter Ben Pelson Jefferson Botts

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J C Raylange B S Wright M. B. Rice Thos. P. Daugherty Saml See J. W. Coyle

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Bath Cir. Ct.

Respite 12 mo B, M.

pdJune 7 1861

$30. } assault Remission Issd May 28th 1861 H Coffer