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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-0001-020-2001 MG23-472

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To His Eccellency Beriah McGoffin

Your Petitioner Edward Todhunter would respectfully state that on the day of May 1862 he was indicted in the City Court for the City of Lexington for carrying Concealed weapons and fined in the sum of $5000 with costs; that he confessed Judgment and paid all the costs, the receipts for which he files herewith. He prays that the remainder of the fine May be remitted in that it is the first offence and he only drew the weapon when an outrageous and unjustifiable assault was made on him to the great danger of his person. And he would ever pray &c

B. H. Allen E M Todhunter We the undersigned pray that His Eccellency May exercise his clemency in favor of the above petitioner.

T N Allen B H Allen B F Graves Joseph M Rogers A,, G,, Morgan Hail Gibson James Price C. H. Harney James a Grinstead J. J. Hunter James B Clay Jno K Elisha A G Hunt

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L Bryan Kay A. C. Dudley C. A. Ridgely Wm C Wallace Wm Clark David Chenault Jno Besh R. M. Adams W T Matheny O O West Ham. Atchison C T Worley Mayor City of Lexington N S Child A. BWood Chas B. Thomas Wm P Breckinridge W, S, Payne C. C. Morgan Wm Van Dalsem

Remitted B. M

$50. } Weapons E. Todhunter Lexington City Ct

IssdJune 9, 1862