Correspondence

W. J. Still to Beriah Magoffin

1862-02-17

Date of Creation
February 17, 1862
Place of Creation
Carlisle, Nicholas 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
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MG22-350
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1675
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W. J. Still to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-02-17, 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-0001-020-1675 (November 14, 2026).

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Carlisle Nicholas County
Febuary 17th 1862
To His Excellency Gov B. Magoffin

Permit me to call your attention again to the forfeited Bail Bond of Wm Ricketts Jr with his Father as his suriety. The respite given him will expire on the 1st of next month and if you could relieve Mr Ricketts altogether from the payment of the debt it certainly would meet with the approbation of nine tenths of the Citizens of this County. Mr Ricketts is far advanced in years his means are quite limited while he is left all most without any assistence to aid him upon his little farm to make living for his family.

His son Wm that draged the old man into this trouble left soon after the shooting of Brother and the report is that ^he^ has been Killed in some one of the battles recently fought in Missouri, While his last and only son left last fall and is at this time I am informed a souldier in the Confederate Army. Should the old man be compelled to pay this debt now — while properity of every description is reduced so ^in^ price it would sweep every thing from him to pay the debt and would leave him all most without any thing to live upon.

Such being the facts of the case I hope your Honor will not with-hold the favor asked by his Neighbors & friends.

Respectfully your obt Servant
W J. Still