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Correspondence

N. Myers to Beriah Magoffin

1861-07-19

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Date of Creation: July 19, 1861
Place of Creation: Greenville, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
Document Genre: Correspondence
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: MG21-80
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-1229
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FTP Identifier: 32209637

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Dates: 1861-07-19; 1860-05; 1861-08-14

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N. Myers to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-07-19, 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-0001-020-1229 (November 13, 2026).

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Greenville. Ky
July 19 1861
Honl B Maggoffin
Dear Sir

In May 1860 I confessed Judgment in the Muhlenberg Circuit Court for $60. fine for keeping a Tipling house, Several men came into my store and drank upon high honer I never rec^d a dime- but the common Wealth Witnesses, Was against me — ,and preferd letting Judgment go — You gave me a respite- I have Since petitioned Your Excellency to remit the fine I have not heard from you, please be so kind as to give me a discharge of ballance still due-

I am Your Obt Servant
N Myers

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Muhlenberg Cir: Ct:
$60 } Tipling
N. Myers

Iss^dAug 14 1861

Remitted
B. M