Petition

J. E. Bacon et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-04

Date of Creation
April 1861
Place of Creation
Brownsville, Edmonson 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
MG20-44
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0985
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32209393

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J. E. Bacon et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-04, 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-0001-020-0985 (November 13, 2026).

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Brownsville Ky April [...] 1861
To His Excelency Honr Beriah Mcgoffin

Your Petitioners Would Respectfully Represent To your honor that Joseph Lewis Sr was fined at the March Term of the Edmondson Equity & Criminal Court Twenty Dollars for Betting Ten cents on a Game of Chuckluck We would Represent to your honor that Mr Lewis is a very Poore Man and that he has a Large family to support and that his Wife is a very Sickly Wooman and that he is scarcely abel to pay Support his family and that it would be a Great Hardship for him to have to pay the said fine that if he is compeled to pay the fine that it will be Taking it from his Wife and Children We therefore hope that your Honor will Remit the fine as Mr Lewis is not a betting Man he is not in the Habit of Betting and by Remiting it you will confer a Lasting favor on a Poor Man and his family

J E Bacon J P E C
Thos. F Spilman
J. P. Jackson
Wm Meredeth S, E, C
James Matison
L W Brown
J W Steward
Jesse C kinser

V. H. Jones
M, N, Drake
Amos James
James A, Bledsoe
Edmond Long
Robert Hughley
W, W, Palmer
Moses Houchin
Lewis M Harlip

[Page 2]

R. S. Hayslip
William Weiler
E Mise Johnson
J. D. Houchin
Russell Jones
Danel Henson
S B Hughes
W H Skaggs
Treford Brown
A, J, Lindsey
Basil Skaggs
Robert Closfuill
[...] Heath
Asel Houchen
Washington Hanes
[...][...]
Thos. Y. Nichols
S, G, Mateson
[...]
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O. Laret
J,, W,, Bailey

Thos S. Sanders
Thomas conway
C kinser
P. B. Waters
W. H. Burk
W B Barnes
L. W. Merideth
Larkin J. Procter
John G Buillock
W. F. Frost
J J Johnson

Remitted
B. M
Edmonson E. & C Ct
$20. } Gaming
Jos. Lewis Sr
IssdApr. 9. 1861