Petition

Ruben Rucker to Beriah Magoffin

1861-02-04

Date of Creation
February 4, 1861
Place of Creation
Clark 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
MG18-425
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0600
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FTP Identifier
32209008

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Dates
1859-11
1861-02-04
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Ruben Rucker to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-02-04, 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-0001-020-0600 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency the Governor of the state of Kentucky.

Your petitioner Reuben Rucker would respectfully state, that an indictment was found in the Clarke Circuit Court against his son William Rucker for forgery at the Novr term of said court in the year 1859. That the prosecution was set on foot out of a spirit of revenge, and for the purpose of vexation and annoyance. That the prosecution has been abandoned and the indictment filed away, but it may be called up hereafter for the purpose of annoyance, to prevent which he petitions your excellency to grant his son a pardon, so that he may be entirely relieved from future trouble and annoyance — He does not believe that there were any grounds for the prosecution and believes that it originated in a spirit of revenge

Feb 4th 1861
Ruben Rucker