Petition

Samuel W. Young 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
MG19-477
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0929
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FTP Identifier
32209337

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Dates
1859-08
1860-03-08
1861-04-09
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Samuel W. Young 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-0001-020-0929 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Mcgoffin
Governor of Kentucky.

The undersigned states that at the [...]August Term of the Waren Equity & Criminal, he was fined by a Jury $200 on a charge of permitting unlawful gaming in a House. That he prayed an appeal to the court of Appeals — but for failure to file a copy of the record in sixty days — The appeal was dismissed — He files a copy of the opinion together with a copy of the evidence with this petition. He is persuaded injustice has been don him and respectfully asks yr Excellency to inter pose in his behalf & remit the fine —

Respectfully
Samuel. W. young

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Warren E & C. Ct
$200 } Gaming
S. W. Young


Respited 12 mos
IssdMar. 8. 1860

IssRemission Issd
Apr. 9. 1861.