Petition

John Owins to Beriah Magoffin

1861-03-22

Date of Creation
March 22, 1861
Place of Creation
Mckee, Jackson 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
MG19-128
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0724
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32209132

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Dates
1861-03-22
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1861-04-09
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John Owins to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-03-22, 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-0001-020-0724 (November 13, 2026).

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Mckee Jackson County Ky
March 22 day 1861
To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin

Your petitioner John Owens, would Most Respectfully Represent to your Excellency that at the Last nov term of the Jackson Circuit Court your Pertion was Find twenty dollars for Illegal gaming which I do not think was Rite for there was Four of us in the game and My self was tride & Find From the Fact that I Laid down ten cents to Bet on the game and the others that was in the game was tride and Acquited and I supose if I had it have Been At Court and had Councill that I would not A have Been Find I thought that there was now [...] and never attended court now your petitioner would state that I am it verry poore Man & have it verry sickley wife and A Large Family of small children to work For and it will Be verry hard For me to pay the Fine now I will Most Respectful ask your Excellecy to Remit said Fine

John Owins

We the under signed do say the Facts in the Foregoing Petition are true and think the Fine ougt to be Remited

Saac J Farley F J F J C
and P J J C
Thos,, J,, Engle ck

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Jackson Cir. Ct
$20 each
Gaming
B. Bahert
Jno Owens
Remission Issd
Apr 9. 1861