Legal/Financial

Elisha Lamasters, Affidavit

1861-11-23

Date of Creation
November 23, 1861
Place of Creation
Breckinridge County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
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
MG22-108
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1512
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32209920
People
Pate, Edward
Lamasters, Elisha
Margolyes, Henry B.
Places
Bennettsville, Kentucky
Breckinridge County, Kentucky
Cloverport, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Margolyes Tavern
Dates
1861-11-23
1861-11-23
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Citation

Elisha Lamasters, Affidavit, 1861-11-23, 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-0001-020-1512 (November 12, 2026).

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Breckinridge County Kentucky

Elisha Lamasters States that he now lives in the Town of Cloveport and at the time Margolyes kept tavern near Bennetsville Ky he lived in Bennetsville, that was well aquainted with Margolyes, has been at his house very often I have eat with him several times I always found plenty of Good and substantial food for man & beast. I further State that the said Margolyes Kept a good & sufficent stable, and provided in abundance, I verily believe the Tavern was as well kept as any body should require for any country house. I further state that on one occasion the said Margolyes sent a horse to the stable that I had charge of not having Sufficient room for said horse and all the others that had stopped for the night with him, I have [...]seen a sufficintcy of Good beds at said Tavern house, I have also ^seen^ [...] corn & hay at his house and other feed for horses.

Given under my hand this 23rd November 1861

Elisha ^his X mark^ Lamasters

Sworn to before me this 23rd November 1861

Edward Pate J P B C