Petition

Bazel Baker 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
MG19-129
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0725
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32209133

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Bazel Baker 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-0001-020-0725 (November 13, 2026).

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Mcke Jackson County Ky
March the 22 day 1861

To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin your petitioner Bazel Baker would Most Respectfully Represent to your Excellency that at the Last Nov term of the Jackson Circuit Court your pertitioner was Find twenty dollars Being charge with illegal gaming) now the facts are these at the First circuit that we Ever had in our new county My self [...] Isaacks & James green & R Roberts had A game in which there was A small sum of Money stake) Snacks & green had there trials and were Find & your honor Remited there Fines and as I am over sixty years of Age and it verry Poore oald Man I will Most Respectfully ask your Excellency to Remit the Fine

Bazel Baker

We the undersignd are well acquain with the Foregoing pertitioner an say that Facts contained in his pertition is true and do think the Fine art to Be remited

Isaac J Farley F J F J C & P J. J. C
Thos J. Engle Clerk circuit & County court