Petition

J. R. Botts et al. to Beriah Magoffin

1861-05-10

Date of Creation
May 10, 1861
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
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MG20-119
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1037
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32209445

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Dates
1861-04
1861-05-10
1861-06-24
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J. R. Botts et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-05-10, 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-0001-020-1037 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency B Magoffin
Governor of the State of Kentucky

Your petitioners Citizens of Carter County would Respectfully Represent to your Excellency that at the last April Term of the Carter Circuit Court that David Floyd was find twenty Dollars for the offence of Illegal Gaming. They State that Mr Floyd is a hard working laboring man with a large Family Dependant on him for a support That he is not a Common gambler and will probably not offind again as he Seems to have been guilty without knowing the penalty of the offence he was Committing wherefore we pray that said fine may be Remitted
May 10th 1861

G T [Oserton]
H M, Floyed
Isaac Prewit
William Young
Jno. McGuire
L, H, Elliott
Gourdin [...]
Samuel Snead

J, R, Botts
John T Shepherd
Abraham Anglin
S J England
G, W, Everman
W, A, Wamack
B W Ward
George Niethercut
Hary Curry

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Stephen Nethercutt
Samuell Hubler
D M Vincent
B T Shepherd
Samuel Everman
Wm Bowling
J, W, [...]
J. B. Ward
William Nethercutt
MrMacy

Respite 12 Mo
B M

IssdJune 24

Carter Cir. Ct
$20 } gaming
D Floyd