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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-0001-020-1323 MG21-224 to MG21-225

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Ky.

We your petitioners would very respectfully beg leave to represent to your Excellency that in the month of February last, at a master field in the Town of Tilton, Fleming County, -- where -- great excitement prevailed, one Wiliam Harmon, a citizen of Fleming County, with several others, was arrested for disturbing the Peace, -- brought before James C. Sousley Esqr. Police Judge for the said Town of Tilton, and upon proof of said charge, was fined the sum of eleven Dollars and cents.

Now we your petitioners would further represent to your Excellency, that said Harmon is a very poor man, and a cripple, he owns no land, and but very little property of any kind, -- has a large family of little children, and a very weakly wife, all dependent on his arm alone for support, and that he cannot without great inconvenience to his family pay said fine.

We would further represent to your Excellency, that said Harmon is, (generally speaking,) a very civil and unobtrusive man, -- a peaceable and unoffending citizen, and from our knowledge of the man, and the attendant circumstances, we are of opinion that said disturbance resulted, not from a malicious disposition on the part of said Harmon, but rather from the impulse of the moment, while under excitement.

Taking all this into consideration, we your petitioners do very earnestly pray your Excellency

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to remit said fine, and in duty bound will ever pray.

July the 23rd 1861.

Petitioners. G W Ladd R Watson John Rhoby R S Jones S. W. Preston M. Thomas James Watson Louis Sanders John Moser Doda S Port John Harmon G G W Darnell Lewis P Crain Charles Roice John Porter James Wilson Robert Lytle James Moren J G Harman Jos L,, Dudley jr Samuel Watson J. L. Faris Enoch B Vice W, G, Thison Petitioners Henry Watson Jeffers Preston A D. Saunders Wilburn Wilson Abraham McKee Samuel Harmon Jackson Harmon Joseph Todd John W Woodard Jermine turner James Hankins Josephus Davis W T Anderson Wm Edwards J, A, Stephens Jesse Calvert will Eden Deaton Hent J. B. Collins Wm D. Blount J. P. Blount L. Gray Wm P Denton thomas leforge

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Petitioners S A Miller esq John N, Davis Jeerod Hopkins S A Day James K Anderson James F Saunders Harison Anderson James Knox Sam B Nelson Joseph Eden James Spencer T R Cutrite James Denton William West J M steward John Stevens seavastion king Minon Ellis toman Crump Isac Stuart John Hendrix Ben, F Williams John T, Hunt Samuel Dougherty John W. Harmon Petitioners

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Tilton Po. ct. $11. } breach Wm Harmon IssdAug 14. 1861

Respite 12 Mo B. M