Petition

A. B. Band 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
MG21-200
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1309
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32209717

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Dates
1861-03
1861-08-14
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A. B. Band 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-0001-020-1309 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency B Magoffin Gov of Kentucky

The undersigned Citizens of Ohio County most respectfully but earnestly recomend to your Clemency Mr Charles K Medcalf a citizen of this County who at the last March term of the Ohio Circuit Court was fined for betting on the election one hundred Dollars. We know Mr Metcalf to be an industrious quit citizens and wholey unable to pay said fine we state further that Mr Medcalf is an uneducated man and was ignorant of the law against betting on elections, and we believe that the prosecution was instigated at least in part through malice. That the bet was a pair of boots and made in a Jocular Mood and wholely without intent to violate any law

A. B. Band J. O. C. C.

I cannot say whether the prosecution was instigated by malice, but I join in the prayer of the petition


Cicero Maxwell
atty for Com
A L Morton
Preston Morton, Jo. P. Barnet
J L Render
W H Berry
Saml. O. Peyton
D. J. Block
James H. Thompson
J T Terryman
W S [Somerman]
H. T. [Radkiff]

J C Bean Juryman
James D Hanson
Saml D. Peyton jr
J C Ford
J C Ford
F H Foreman
Craven Peyton
David Midkiff
Wm Graves
T C Taylor
J T Austin
Jas. B. Bennett
W. G. Mitchell
Henry Small.
Simon Small

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Seymour Mauryy
John E Pendleton CaptofstateGuards
E B Ellis
Louis Gunther
Joseph W Chapman [days]
J H Crow High Private
R Gibson
Wm Hendrick
Z. W. Griffin
Philip Brooks
B R Bu[...]
T Barnett
J F Collins
D, L, Barnett

Remitted
B. M

Ohio Cir. Ct
$100. } betting on Election
IssdAug 14. 1861

C. K. Metcalfe