Correspondence

Thomas C. Dabney to Beriah Magoffin

1862-05-19

Date of Creation
May 19, 1862
Place of Creation
Greenville, Muhlenberg 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
MG23-357
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1921
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32210329

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Dates
1862-05-19
1862-05-09
1862-05-28
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Thomas C. Dabney to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-05-19, 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-0001-020-1921 (November 14, 2026).

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Greenville Ky 19 May 1862
His Excellency Gov Magoffin
Dear Sir

At the present term of my Court Edmond Drake & Ben P Wells of this County were Indicted for Gaming on the 9th day May 1862, The facts are as inferred by Credeble [persons] that on that day these two, young men were engaged with many others in working a public road in said County & whilst the hands were resting on the road side they innucently threw up few grains of Corn & did bet on them 5 cents which was won by Wells & then immediately returned to Drake by Wells, The Indictment erroneously charges it to have been done with cards but such is not the fact. In consideration of the facts, the tender age of the parties & the perfect innucency of the parties not thinking or intending at the time to violate any law, I hereby most respectfully ask your Excellency to remit said offence & free them from any further prosecution for the same

Very Resp
Your Obt Servt
Tho, C, Dabney

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Muhlenberg Cir Ct
Indictments for Gaming
E Burk & B. P. Wells
Iss May 28 1862

Remitted
B. M