Eli Watson et al. to Beriah Magoffin
1861-02-28
- Date of Creation
- February 28, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Brooksville, Bracken 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
- MG18-418 to MG18-419
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0595
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209003
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- Dates
- 1861-02-28
Citation
Eli Watson et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-02-28, 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-0001-020-0595 (November 13, 2026).
Brooksville Bracken County Ky
Honorable Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky
Frankford Ky
The undersigned wer members of the Jury by whom Jacob Walker a citizen of this place was tried at the present term of the Backen Circuit Court upon an Inditment for setting lottery tickets in an enterprise known as "Morgan Gift Enterprise' drawn or distributed in the state of New Jersey
That from the evidence before them at their knowledge of Mr Walker, they are of opinion that he was not aware that in selling said tickets and distributing the gifts that he was violating any law, That Mr Walker is though poor an industrious and law abiding citizen and is a proper object of the exercise of your clemency and the recomed the remision of the fine so far as it is in your power to do so
Eli Watson Juormon
G W Marshall Juror
John H Snyder
Ezra Ham Juryman
Jonathan Hedgecock Juryman
Samuel Shockey
G T Schoolfield Jury man
Robt Lytle Juryman
Robert Ellis Jury man
Jeremiah Clark Jury man
John H Smarr Juryman
James Bradford Jury man
Remitted