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B. G. Willis et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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: MG19-361 to MG19-362
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0865
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Dates: 1861-02; 1861-03-20

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B. G. Willis et al. 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-0001-020-0865 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the State of Kentucky

Your petitioners would represent that at the February term of Bracken Circuit Court W. D Ratcliffe was fined the sum of two hundred dollars ^each^ in two cases for permitting gameing on his premises

They state that the offence was from the proof a verry small one, in the first case, the playing was done by some young men who were guarding a lunatic and during the night they engaged in a game of cards at fivecents a game in order to keep awake, and in the second case some workmen in his employ played for enough money to buy a watermellon And the petitioners think that the cost and fees of the Commonwealths attorney is ample punishment for so small an offence

Wherefore they ask you to remit the ballance of the fines

B. G. Willis
G. P. Freese
Samuel. H. Moore
J R Morris
S W Norten
Jno H. Bonde
G. W. Hamilton
W^m Williams
H, A, Day
J. S. Ryan
Henry. E. Ware
H. C. Frank

J. J. Schoolfield
David Wayne
A. A. Hamilton
Thornton Hamilton
H, P, Flower
F. A. West
R. J. Harney
A Matthews
A G M^cDonald
John H Ellis
J R Swan
D. J. Wallin

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Names to the within petition
C, H, Lee
W^m. C. Prather
Milton Tevis
J B Clarke
Nelson Plumer
Mat G Thompson
Isaac West
Thomas Gleeson
Levi Perkins

I know nothing about the facts — but I take pleasure in signing this Mr Radcliff is a werthy man and werthy of Executive clemency

J. S. Whisner
J. P. Morris
M M^cClenahan
Thomas Willson
H C. M^cClenahan
J W M^cClenahan
Joseph Norris
Henry C Murray
Franklin Metcalfe
Andrew F Rice
Mikel Rice
Marion Brown
John W Jennings
J. C. Burns
W T Dailey
Freidrick Morgan
Lewallen Gallaspie
David York
W.. S.. Elliott
Samuel Murphy
Joseph Chiefman
[...] Wagner
T H Soward
Jowele [Menejer]
A. Kyle
James. P. King
Augustus A Wood
Thomas. Costacan
T,, B,, Moorhead
Florence M^ccarty
Jos Kenton
J W Walker
R, A, Strmee
Robert Coleman
Thomas P Howard

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Names to within petition
Joshua Ryan
J. Davis
O K [Shroubue]
J O Overturf
J W Baumard
G. W. Barkley
Harry. P. M^cMahan
Elijah W Kemp
James W. M^cGill
Steward McCasky
John H M^cClenahan
J H Murray
John Dolafus
O A McClanahan
Alfred Beronk
elison Peell
Lewis Golden
C M^cAlevy
Jas. W. Jennings
H, C, Yates
John, W, Cooper
E D Williams
Th'd, Galbraith
James R Norris
Robt, C, Clayton
A S Daley
Joseph West
Thomas Morton [~~W C~~]
E Clark
D C Akin
F, W, Asbury
N P, Culp
R G Akon
P. Mann

Daniel Mann
D T Jett
William Robinson
Richard Wells
Jacob. W. Curts
E H Gibson
Henry Still
Elijah Walker
W Shower
J, H, W, [...]
Ja^s, M, Mitchell
Wesley Vickroy
Peyton Murphy
W W M^cDonald
G R Askin
John Mayne
John Bunker
Elbert Hunter
A Feagan
W. M. Best
Wm H. Smitron
T. B. Grigson
Levi B Redden
Henson Owens
W. W. Poe
Zachas Turner
W^m. Wadkins
J. B. Holton
Joseph Newkirk
Robert. A. Connely
H. Huddleston
Josh. A. Sellers
L A Murray
John Sherlock

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John S Morford
John Corks
Jas,, Donovan
Samuel Trink
W^m, J, Haley
Abraham Free
Edward Flood
J B Gibson
E W, Linnie
George W Fronk
B, C, West
John Taylor
James F Snyder
G, A, Pribble
W Robinson
Sam Bowman
John E Ludwig
Lanel Bowmon
William Renby
Wm T. Weiner
Wm Higgins
S B Hamilton
Augustus Martin

Nicholas Cook
Isaac Teagarden
John Redden
John W Melvin
W^m Black
J. W. Armstrong.
Lewis P Knoedler
John M. Judd
James B. Ryan
Jam Owens
Alf N, Myers
J E Ames
A Theobald
H [Heiniker]
W. A. Doniphan
R D Smith
J Mad Bradford
Nicholas Stroube
George O'neal,
F. L. Cleveland

27
100
25
95
$175

Bracken Cir. Ct
Remitted
B. Magoffin
$200. two Judgts
W. D Ratcliffe
Iss^dMar 20. 1861