W. D. Lannom to Beriah Magoffin
1861-02-11
- Date of Creation
- February 11, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Frankfort, Franklin 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
- MG19-32 to MG19-33
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0685
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209093
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Citation
W. D. Lannom to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-02-11, 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-0001-020-0685 (November 14, 2026).
Frankfort Ky
Governor Magoffin,
Dear Sir,
I submitted to you the other day some appications of a few of my constituency asking to have divers & Sundry fines remitted for playing games of marbles cards &c for a "consideration" I regret that I today forgot to call your attention to them, I also gave you the petition of Mrs Clark asking for the remission of a forfeited Bond. The petition in that case explains itself and I feel satisfied when you read the petition that you will extend to her the clemency She asks and indeed is so
justly entitled to receive.
Enclosed I submit to you a Statement of 2 cases of the Comwhth Vs W H Smith the Judgments are small it is true only $20. each but they were both for small games & Smith is a poor man — a clever man and not a gambler although he sometimes indulges in a game of cards. If you can find it consistent with your duty to relieve these gentlemen you will place them & myself under many obligations to you_
truly your friend
W D Lannom
Hickman
E & C Ct
Two Judgts each of
$20. W H Smith
Respite 12 mo
B. M
Two Judgments one of $350. the other of $10. against
Tho. G Poore
Issd