James S. Asbury to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-1697

Document Genre

Petition

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG22-386

Place of Creation

Bracken County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

25 February 1862

Dates Mentioned

--05

1862-02-25

James S. Asbury to Beriah Magoffin, 25 February 1862, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG22-386, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1697, (accessed December 28, 2024).

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To the Hon. B Magoffin Governer of Kentucky

Your affiant James S Asbury would respectfully state, that in May last he was in Germantown upon the day of the election, that at the time he was not quite twenty one years old but only lacked a few days of it. He states that he did not go to said election with any intention of voting, but the judges of said election solicited him some two or three times to come and vote, he declined at first, but the judges still urgue him to come up and vote, and your affiant not knowing that there was any penalty attached to his voting, or that there was any thing wrong in so doing, finally consented and did vote simply for Constable, but for no other officer -- he states that the officers of said election were well acquainted with him, and he had no idea that they would solicit him to do a thing that was in violation of the law, and he had no intention at the time of doing wrong. He states that he did not know the law, but he supposed that the judges did, and having confidence in them he did not suppose they would solicit him to violate the law.

At the August term of the Bracken Circuit Court some one procured an Indictment against him, and at the present February term, judgment was rendered against him for Fifty Dollars for said violation.
Your affiant most respectfully asks your Excellency, to remit said fine, he thinks it is a case in which your clemency ought to interpose, and arrest the rigor of the law, he claims to be a law abiding citizen, and would not knowingly violate the law in any particular.

Witness my hand this 25^h day of Febuary 1862

Sworn to before me by James S Asbury this 25^h day of Febuary 1862

James S. Asbury

Sworn to before me by James S Asbury this 25^th day of February 1862

C. H. Lee P J B C C

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