Petition

William Strong et al. 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
MG21-10 to MG21-11
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1183
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FTP Identifier
32209591

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Dates
1860-10
1861-05
1860-10
1861-06-24
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Citation

William Strong 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-0001-020-1183 (November 13, 2026).

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To the Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Your Petitioners William Strong Alexander Strong & James Little William Moore & Horace Freeman states that at the October Term of the Beathitt Circuit Court they were Indicted in said Court for illegal gaming Convicted by playing on the premises of another &c your petitioner states that at the present May Term of said Court that they was tried for said offence and they was Each fined Twenty dollars for said charge they state to your Excellency that it was in proof before the court that the playing took place on the premises in the possession of J. South & that he South was present & did not object ot the playing so it is your petitions was fined $20- Each they state that it is true they had a small game more for amusement than for the object of game they state that they are poor men and times are very hard and money scarce & under the distracted condition of the Country & the depressed price of property it is utterly impossible for them to raise the money as they are poor & live in a poor and mountainous country= your petitioner Horace Freeman says that he confessed a Judgmt for $20- for the same offence at the October Term of this Court. he therefore together with the other petitioners ask your Excellency to Remit said fines for under the present depressed & deplorable condition of the country & scarcity of money they can hardly pay their taxes- In tender mercy they pray your Excellency to Remit said fines & will ever pray They state they are not common gamblers & are

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not in the habit of playing cards for money — that they are Laboring men & make their living by their industry that the whole capitol vested in the game in the ^amt^ won & lost did not Exceed one dollar wherefore they humlby ask your Excellency to remit said Fines

William Strong
Alexander Strong
James Little
William Moon
Horace Freeman
Your Petitioners

We the undersigned Join in petitioning your Excellency to Remit said Fines

Jno W Hazelrigg atto
Thos Murrell atty
A H Quilline
Isaac N. Cardwell
J N Moore
Walter Chiles
Wm L Hurst
J. D. Cooley
O. W. Hart
A B Patrick
James Combs

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Gov Magoffin
Dear Sir

I hope that your will remit the foregoing fine I believe that it ought to be remited

Yours Truly
Granville Pearl

I agree in the above

John Deshin

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A Strong &c
Petition

Remitted
B. M

June 24