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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-0001-020-2379 MG25-167 to MG25-168

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To his Excellency the Govnor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the undersigned Citizens of Bracken County would respectfully represent unto your excellency that at the last ^Term^ term ^1861^ of the Bracken Circuit Court in the case of the Commonwealth against Llewlyn Galaspie the jury empanneled in in said case fined the said Galspie one hundred and four dollars from the evidence and under the instructions of the court for the obstructions of a public road in said County by removing his fence and placing a portion of it in the track of the old road and at One point cross the same and let it remain there for the space of one hundred and four days and at the same time cut a road out side of Said fence and placed said road on as good ground with the exception of one place as the Old road. and thereby made it a shorter rout, said road ran over the land of Galaspie and mostly through the woods and in a sparcely settled neighbourhood and that the road is not generally used by persons except on horseback and on foot, notwithstanding said Galspie obstructed the road as aforesaid we believe the public was not injured by said obstruction, and the said Galspie being a

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poor man with a wife and a number of Children to support, we the undersigned citizens would respectfully ask your Excellency to remit said fine or so much thereof as the law will permit.

Yours respectfully C. H. Lee G W Holton Wm Fallin James Brown Augustus Wood Robt Cabell Cornelius Mcavoy Edward Flood T F Marshall Henry Frank Jr Thomas Gleeson Andrew Adams Challos C B dally Simon Jessobs J. P. Overturf H A MClenahan Elizah M Hinson Owens H C McCrahan A Pinckard W Adams Robt Bradford vanburen Melooy J B Taylor S B Lenney J. E Armer L M. Perkins B, C, Clayton J J Anderson John Hook James Best John W Ellis Wm S Metcalfe James. M. Mitchell Augustus Galbraith Porter Jett W McDonnald Henry. E. Ware Peter Banfield Luke Flood Patrick Flood Samuel Case R Mcelfresh William Gunn A, P, Florer N, E, doyle L. J. Bradford Thomas Hackett George Poe John W Fosar

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T.. B.. Grigson Alfred S Frank James R Norris William Wells M, L, Dittz W P Dittz J W McGill A. B Thomas J S Quinlan James Black Samuel Moyers Wm Figgins J S Morford H H Perkins J R Swan W. N. Doree R. P Crupper Stanfield Perkins M Fonk O, S, Cart Nimrod Camben Jos Dauiphan G. W Mitchel Henry Ogdon G W Marshall a Juror Wm B Harris E K Northcutt J. M Peare John W Bendict Thomas P handley William Tevis Ezra Ham John W Semant W H Reynolds x Sheriff Ewd Summers Jos. A. Colvin Mikle Rise young Mikle Rise James Adams John H Sellers P, L, Blades Wm Bodring William Thomas Thomas Samuell Mclanahan William. B Anderson W. A. Doniphan J. C. Burns Peter Workman David Gort W.. S.. Elliott Eli Watson Jureman G W, Marshall Juror Jonethan Hedgcrock Juror Thomas Perkins Juror Saml. L. Marshall Juror P. M Perkins Juror

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A Mors Sr Peter, Mann N R Culp Daniel Mann D C Askin D T Jest G, W, Asbury Samuel Calloway E C Elliott Wm, T, Mitchell Wm maines N S Hundley