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N. P. Reid et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Place of Creation: Bath County, Kentucky
Document Genre: Petition
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: MG18-39-1 to MG18-40
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0349
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FTP Identifier: 32208757

Mentioned in this document

People: Berkley, Benjamin F.; Magoffin, Beriah; Erwin, J. B.; Young, James T.; Mason, John Calvin; Everett, Marcus R.; Reid, Newton P.; Tenney, Otis Seth; Brown, William H.; Conner, William Penrose
Places: Bath County, Kentucky; Kentucky; Montgomery County, Kentucky
Organizations: Bath Circuit Court

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N. P. Reid et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-0349 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency, the Hon Beriah Magoffin,
Governor of Kentucky.

We the undersigned, citizens of Bath, would respectfully, but earnestly solicit your excellency to remit a certain — fine imposed, by a Judgement of the Bath Circuit Court at its ~~March~~February term, upon our esteemed young friend M^rSamuelHerndon, for retailing spirituous liquors — believeing that such a remission of said fine by you meets the approbation of an overwhelming majority your people — they knowing M^rHerndon well.

N. P. Reid.
John. G. Mason
J. A. Turner jr
W, H, [Brown]
Jas. T. Young
W. P. Conner S. B. C

M, R, Everett
J B Erwin
R. F. Berkley
O, S, T[...]
Samuel Pike, of Montgomery.