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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-0001-020-1264 MG21-134 to MG21-135

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To his Exsellency Beriah Magoffin Govenor of Kentucky:

respectfully your petitioner William Rogers reprasants that at the late July Term of the Mason Circuit Court he was fined by Said Court the sum of twenty five dollars for an assault and Battery upon John Sweet. Sweet called him a thief and other opprobrious epithets, smarting under this language he struck him but one blow, this was done upon an election day upon his return home and after Sweet had drawn a large knife upon one of the company-he most respectfully solicits you to remit said fine

W W Rogers

The undersigned concur in the foregoing petition

Henry N. Willett Geo W. Walz Wm Shouse Tho N Balen J. H. Rains John Curtis Jno D Taylor Robert Gervin Wm H. Loughridge Edwin Brittain Tom Francis Wm Colvin

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John M. Rains W H Darvall John Hut Peter L Parker David Helrich E H Wood Azro Whitaker Alexander Power James N Wilson C, P, Wright C Bell J. C. Brookover Noble Dryden John A Shepperd W. T Tolls Thomas E Grier Frank Blanchard John W Farley lewis W. Singer P J Green W W Newel S W McMillin Thomas, V, Welsh Nelson Whitaker R U Watkins N. P. Watkins

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Remitted B, M

IsdJuly 30