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H. Stratman et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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H. Stratman et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-017-0284 (November 12, 2026).

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To the Honorable Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the Comth" of Kentucky

— May it please your honor Whereas a vacancy has occured in district No fourth in Webster County Kentucky of a Justice of the Peace by the removal out of the County S. T. Morrow late Justice of the Peace in and for Said County and Whereas we recommend to your honor the appointment of Wm H Winstead of Vanderburg as a suitable person to fill the vacancy thus occured he lives near the ^late^ Residence of said Morrow and nearly in the center of Said district

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W D Witherspoon
J Mcoy
J Humphrey
A M Fedrick
J King
H Edwards
G W King
L Edards
E J Ramsey
W. Ramsey
W H Day
John gardner
J Crook

in haste

Issue comission
B. M

Issue Commission
B. M —

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Webster Co.

J. P.
Dist N^o 4
W. H. Winstead
vice
S. T. Morrow
Iss^dJany 22. 1861