Petition

G. A. Sugg et al. to Unknown

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
MG21-40
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1201
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FTP Identifier
32209609

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Dates
1857-12
1861-06-24
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Citation

G. A. Sugg et al. to Unknown, 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-0001-020-1201 (November 13, 2026).

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We the undersigned citizens of Henderson Ky would respectfully petition your excellency, to remit the fine emposed by the circuit court upon N. L. Cook at the Decr Term 1857- for gaming being carried on upon the premises of said Cook, believing as we do that he had no knowledge of the offence & that to require him to pay so heavy a penalty would work great hardships & suffering upon him & his family — We would further state that said Cook is a good & law abiding citizen-

G. A. Sugg
L W. Trafton
J. A. Moss
J W Crockett
John E McCallister
Geo. F. Beatty
J. F. Yager
J, E, Ricketts
G W Beatty
P. A. Blackwell
C R Priest,
Geo. M. Priest
R, P, Letcher
C W Hutchin respectfully requests the remisison as the petition not having heard of the case

Y E Albion
W, N, Thompson
Paul J Mans
M G Owens
Wm. W. Catlin
Saml W Black
H F. Turner
Benja F Lester
J. E. Fagan
A W Hoskins
Hiram Turner
N. C. Howard
L W Powell
John M Combs
James Atkinson
J G Anderson
John Lamb

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Fred Pentecost Dep Circuit Clerk

The foregoing signatures are ^among^ those of the most respectable, reliable [...] and law abiding citizens of thecitizensof Henderson under the existing circumstances and the facts of the case as set forth in the petition, the fine should be remitted, in order that justice may be done Mr. Cook.

T J Hopkins
Clerk Henderson Circuit and one of the Jurors that tried the case

Henderson Cir. Ct
$220 16/100 } Gaming
N. L. Cook
Remission Issd
June 24. 1861

Wm, F, Quinn
James Manion