Petition

Martin Raines to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG19-337
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0850
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FTP Identifier
32209258

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Dates
1860-08
1861-03-14
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Martin Raines to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-0850 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governer of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Martin Raines would respectfully represent that at the August Term of the Whitley Circuit Court he with Wm Ellison was fined Ten dollars each for a breach of the peace. Having got a little tite he with others went past one of his neighbors houses & stoped in got their supper had a Jollificationof a him & spoke a fiew [smartly] words in presence of a woman there was no harm done no licks struck in fact no quarreling your petioner would represent that he is poor and unable to pay the fine He has a family to support and is one handed so that he is hardly able to support them — He asks that you will remit the fine and he promises not to be guilty of a like offense again

Martin Raines

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Whitley Cir Ct
$10 each } breach
M. Raines
Wm Ellison
Remission Issd
March 14. 1861