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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-0001-020-1395 MG21-342 to MG21-343

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To his excelency, the governor of Ky, Beriah Magoffin

Your petitioner, Henry Prather was fined on the 8th day of July 1861, before Squire Cocks a Justice of the peace of Mercer County, twenty dollars, for an assault and batery, Prather is a man not addicted to quarrels or difficulties Never before had a dificulty with any person. He is a young man of good character, but poor, and if compelled to pay the fine and the cost attendant upon it, will be greatly oppressed your petitioner is a poor and hardworking man He pledges himself if relieced from this fine not to get into another dificulty if it can possibly be avoided

He further says that that the Jury who fined him say at the bottom of this petition that he should be relesed

Your Petitioner says the above statements are true.

Henry Prather

sworn to Before me this the 20th day of August 1861 Wm M Bowen J P A C _ _

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We the undersigned Jurors Join in the above petition and pray that said fines be remited.

E.. N. Hedger William Carter Mitchael Etherinton Wm F Caruthers William Craig P Todd Woods Peter Gibson Lawrence Egbert John. C. Perry Rice. Griggs

And we the undersigned, also pray that said fine be remited.

O. R. Wheat Robt. Gibson Patrick, H, Jordan J. V. Cox A Allbeton c m c Wade Dawson J. W. Egbert Thos Edwards Robert A Nelson S S. Perry G S Littlepage Jr John W. Bickers Richard J. Alexander Wm J. Watergill James S. Buderfield J. A. Morris James H Allbriten Henry Bell Price. Bell. H. C. Bell W. H. Bickel Wm Lyer Wm K. Woods O T Smith S Chelton

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Mercer J. P.

Remitted B. M.

IsdSept 18

Henry Prather