Correspondence

B. Lawless to Beriah Magoffin

1860-12-13

Date of Creation
December 13, 1860
Place of Creation
Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG17-237
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0262
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FTP Identifier
32208672

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Dates
1860-12-13
1860-12-22
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B. Lawless to Beriah Magoffin, 1860-12-13, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 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-0001-020-0262 (November 13, 2026).

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Glasgow Decr 13 1860
Honl. B Magoffin
Dr Sir —

A petition will be presented to your excellency in behalf of John W. Wood Ward of Edmonton who was fined $200 at the present term of our court upon a charge under indictment of Keeping a tipling house for three months only one witness proved the fact & that very indefinitely & he was very generally intoxicated himself Said Wood Ward is a clever fellow and in bad health I hope you will remit all of Said fine except the comlth attorneys fee

Yours &c &c
B Lawless

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Barren E & C
Metcalf Cir. Ct


$200 } Tipling
Jno. W. Moore
IssdDec 22. 1860.

Respited 12 mo
B. M