Petition

William Vinson to Beriah Magoffin

Place of Creation
Lawrence 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
MG18-85
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0380
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32208788
People
Magoffin, Beriah
Hyton, Clabourn
Rice, Jacob
Nesbitt, James M.
Rice, James M.
Meeks, Jesse P.
Vinson, William
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Lawrence Circuit Court
Lawrence County Jail
Dates
1860-04
1860-05
1861-01-22
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Citation

William Vinson 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-0001-020-0380 (December 16, 2025).

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To his Excellency, Beriah Maggoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

Your petitioner William Vinson, States that at the last April term of the Lawrence circuit court, there was a fine of twenty Dollars ($20) adjudged against him for gaming, he States that the attorney for the Commonwealth, Jas M, Nesbitt immediately, drew a letter to your excellency; and also Hon Jas M. Rice united in the same, asking the fine to be remitted, which letter in may last was forwarded to your Excellency, your petitioner asks, that you will interpose in his behalf, he states that the gaming for which he was fined; took place one night in the county jail while they was guarding they was guarding the same, (the other two in the game was Jesse Meek^s^ and Claiburn Hyton) he states that they had no intention while in the game to gamble for gain and only inte^n^ded it for pastime, he says the fine is oppressive, and he asks your clemency & will ever &c,

Wm Vinson

We whose names are hereto assigned most respectfully ask that the fine be remitted

Jake Rice
Jas M, Rice

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Lawrence Cir Ct

Remitted
B. M

$20 each } Gaming
Jesse Meek & others
IssdJany 22d 1861