Correspondence

Joshua Bingham to Beriah Magoffin

1861-08-20

Date of Creation
August 20, 1861
Place of Creation
Prestonsburg, Floyd 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
MG21-346 to MG21-347
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1397
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FTP Identifier
32209805

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Dates
1861-08-20
1861-09-17
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Joshua Bingham to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-08-20, 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-0001-020-1397 (December 10, 2025).

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Prestonburg Ky
Aug 20th 1861
To His Excellency
Beriah Magoffin Govener of Kentucky

Your petitioner Joshua Bingham would Respectfullly Represent that he is a poor man with a large Family that he has only one leg and is a criple fer life, that the county court of Floyd County in order to prevent your petitioner becoming a co charge and in order to keep your petitioner from the poor house Gave him a Licence to Keep a tavern after the expiration of his Licence, he did sell serve Liquor before he renewed his Licence fer which he has been endicted in the Floyd circuit court

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of Floyd County: He says He He will be unable to pay the fine & costs. That he has always preserved Good order about his house, as all his neighbours will testify He therefore asks your Excellency: to remit sd fine and fer all proper Relief

Joshua Bingham

We the undersigned have examined the foregoing petition and can say with truth that the statements in the Same are true,, that the Petitioner keeps an orderly house,, that we live in a mile from him and hope you will Remit the fine

John M. Burns
John M. Elliott

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From information that can be relied on I have no doubt of the Truth of the within

John Dishman

Floyd Co
Joshua Bingham
To } Petition
Governer

Remitted
B. M

IssdSept 17. 1861