Petition

Thomas Cravens 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
MG20-76
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1008
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FTP Identifier
32209416

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Dates
1860-08
1861-03
1861-04-09
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Citation

Thomas Cravens 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-0001-020-1008 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Thomas Cravens would respectfully represent that at the August term of the Whitley Circuit Court for 1860 he was Indicted for carrying concealed weapons and that at this March Term he came forward plead guilty and was fined $50 The circumstances under which he was guilty are these he had been out to Rockastle County on business and when he was an intire stranger on his return and before he had been at home he was seen with the weapons & afterward Indicted — Your Petitioner is a poor man and not able to pay the fine and if it is paid some of his friends will have to pay it for him or he will have to go to jail he asks that your Excellency will remit the fine and he promises that he will not be guilty of a like offinse agan

Thomas Cravens

The undersigned concur in the statements made in the Petition and ask the fine be remitted

R. Boyd
S Denham
H. L. Fox
J L McCarty
J H Scott

I wish you would remit the fine Times are hard the petitioner is poor

John Dishman
W. H Randall

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Whitley Cir. Ct
Remitted
B. M
$50. } Weapons
Tho. Cravens
IssdApr 9. 1861