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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-0001-020-2157 MG24-249

Wolfe County, Kentucky Wolfe County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Kentucky Wolfe County Sct

The undersigned; all Bonafied house keepers & good citizens of Wolfe county Ky States that Nicholas Fulks formerly of this county was a young man of good moral character at the time that he left this place. He was a poor orphan boy but strictly honest & industrious. & that if he is guilty of the crime with which he is charged hhe was led into it by cunning villians whose design it was to destroy him & keep their own head out of the hatter These villiains are numerous in this place & well calculated to destroy the most most honest hearted young men in this country & as he has been brought up in such a country without parents & without the means of support only what he honestly laboured for

They the undersigned plead petition to your honor for his release from prison Given from under your hands

Names of Signers

James, S Ohair Isaac Peck Wm. A. Tutt P. A Nickell T. B. Johnson Samuel Swango D. S. Trimble J. R. Cox A.C. Buchanan A. F. Johnson Miles Wilson S P. Byrd A. S. Trimble Peter Little M. H. Kirk Miles Nickell Wm Hensley Wm Trimble A P. Lacey John Nickell John.J. Baker B. D Rose David Rose Jr John P. Gillespie Wm Ohair Wm J Rose

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A. M. Buchanan Jeremiah Hampton James N. Rose Greenville Swango Daniel Pelfrey Andrew Davis William Murphy Thos H Tutt Joseph Bumgarner John Hamm J. G Trimble Moses B. Lacey William M Stamper J,, M Lackey R O Chapmam I. Johnson P Johnson F. P Wilson Wm G. Gibbs A,, J. Cox J. B Cox George Asbury