John W. Bingham and Nimrod Harris to Beriah Magoffin
1861-11-18
- Date of Creation
- November 18, 1861
- Place of Creation
- Mercer County, Kentucky
- 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
- MG22-121
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-1522
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32209930
Citation
John W. Bingham and Nimrod Harris to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-11-18, 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-0001-020-1522 (November 12, 2026).
To his Excellency the Governorof the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Your petitioners John. W. Bingham and Nimrod Harris would respectfully represent to your Excellency that one Lafe Marshall was fined in the Police Court of Harrodsburg the sum of five Dollars and cost, amounting in all to the sum of Nine Dollars and 35 cents; and that an execution was issued against the said Marshall, and was replevied by your petitioners, Since the execution of said bond, the said Mar[...]shall has left the state of Kentucky, and your petitioners are informed, he is now in the Southern now in the Army. That answer execution has issued upon said bond against your petitioners for said fine and cost, and is now in the hands of the Marshal- and that your petitioners will have to pay the same, and that they have no funds in their hands belonging to the said Marshall; and should your petitioners pay the same, it will be a total loss to them.
Wherefore your petitioners would pray your Excellency to intepose in
their behalf, and remit said fine; and as in duty bound we will ever pray.
J, W, Bingham
Nimrod Harris
Mercer County
State of Kentucky
John WB Bingham and Nimrod Harris say that the statements contained in the foregoing petition are true —
J. W, Bingham
Nimrod Harris
Sworn to before me this the
E. J. Polk Examiner for Mercer County
We the undersigned Citizens of Harrodsburg join thein the prayer of the foregoing petition —
Names
Chr Chinn
E. J. Polk
Names
Harrodsburg Po. ct
Remitted
B, M
$5. } Replevin Bond
Jno. W. Bingham & Nimrod Harris
Issd