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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-0001-020-1194 MG21-29

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To His Excellency Gov Berriah Magoffin

Your Petitioner John Kissick Most Humbly represents that at the Feb term of the Rowan Circuit Court 1861 He was fined the Sum of $10.43/1002/3 for an assault and Battery

Your Petitioner States that he inflicted no injury, he Merely threw a rock at Said (Mathias Lee John Cassity) it Missing him & ^Cassity^ Lee Sustained no injury by reason of the rock being throwed

The undersigned Petitioners Pray & asks that Said fine be remitted & that Said Kissick be for ever released from the payment of said fine They Humbly represent that said Kissick is a poor Man and has a considerable Family to support and that he (Kissick) makes his liveing by his daily labor. He therefore throws himself upoon the Mercy of Your Excellency, and ask that he be pardoned, and he will be guilty nomore

Your undersigned Petitioners Further represent that said Kissick is an industrious & laboring Man- & not to throw too many obstacles in his future path no doubt he will prosper & make a liveing & support for his wife & Little children

Wherefore they pray that said fine be remitted and will forever pray &c

Yours Truly

June 11" 1861

T. F. S. Robertson W. H. Norris Nathaniel White Andrew Nickell W W Richards J W McIntire M. B. Lee W B Cornett J. E. Cooper

E. H. Logan Richard Hawkins James W. Johnson J A Hawkins Silas Bartlett A Keeton H R Myers H, C, Davis

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John N. McIntire Thos Christian James A Thomas W O Fant J. H. Steele George M Carey J. R, Hawkins C H porterman Jeff. Amburger R P Christan

Remitted B. M

IssdJune 24