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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-0001-020-2197 MG24-318 to MG24-319

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To his Excellency Hon Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Charles P Taylor would represent that at the last term of the Barren Equity & Criminal Court he was fined Sixty Five Dollars for an assault -- He states that the man that he was charged with assaulting, had abuised and slandered his wife

That he is poor, and unable in Justice to his family to pay said fine that he asked your honor to exercise your clemency in remitting said fine & will ever pray

C P Taylor

The undersigned say that C. P. Taylor the petitioner above, is a hard working clever man, & we Join him in asking that his fine be remitted & will ever pray

N. T. Johnson H A Jordan Wm Bybee Thomas Groom J M Doty A Moaten P. T. Hudson J P B C V A Jones A. Crenshaw B. A Davidson B L Lawless John Montagne J. P B C B Lawless J P Hall Isaac Smith Dr W S Souter B Lawless Jr H J Martin

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Thomas Kinslow John V. Bush, J. G. Davis P, H, Ritter N. A. Smith M H Dickinson Sheriff E. C. Preston

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A. R. Bagby Jones Davis O. F. Mosby J P B C Samuel Scott N. L. B. Ritter J W. Mosby J. L. Barbour James Dodd A. G. G. Gillock M. P. Mcglocain Travis. Cockrill F, G Bybee W F Davis A Marsh P Mayfield John Church, F Forrester T,, Bybee S. L. McConnell W. M True J L. Vortrees. F. A. Richardson H Gassaway C C Anderson H Hill Flint H Parrish H C Crenshaw J. H. Gassaway R F Dickey D E Gorin W. C green Geo T Bybee J. P. Wilson J. K. Halloway Geo H. Wilson John Proctor Thos Jones John Matthews J W Scrivoner E G. Walker Jordan Hall Samuel Everett P G Wooten L. D. Bridges R D Bybee W. H Downing J J. Bridges Z R Huggins John T. Cox Hardin Depp Jas A Shirley J. W. Kennedy Robt Hughs Joseph Nevill J W Bowling B F Davis N M Harlan N Herzog H Bevill Thos Burke T B McMurtry Wyatt Coleman D, S, Wade

Barren Cir Ct Remitted B. M. IsdJay 13. 1860 $65 } Assault Chas P Taylor