To his excellency Beriah McGoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners Achilles Williams states Lewis Deskins state and Jackson Deskins and James T Williams state that on the 1^st day of August being election day Your petitioner Lewis Deskins & Thompson Cecil quarreles, and Cecil Collard your petitioner and they fought a little neither of them hurt and your petitioner Deskins was taken up and tried before John Charles, J P P C And fined $7.71 ^cts

And your petitioner Jackson Deskin on the same day was struck on the head by Samuel Cecil with a club and his head wounded pretty badly and he and this petitioner was did nothing and before the same Justice he was fined $6.61 ^cts

And your petitioner Achilles Williams was present at the foregoing breach of the peace and this was ordered by the Justice of the peace to part the Combatants and in attempting to part Lewis Deskins and Thompson Cecil said Cecil James and drawed to strike your petitioner and he struck said Cecil and for this he was fined before said Justice $7.75^cts He states he was forced to do what he did that no damage was done except to Jackson Deskins his Co petitioner

Wherefore they pray your excellency to remit said fines they being poor and they think said fines ought not to have been adjudged and your petitioner will ever

pray &c

Achilles Williams
Jackson Deskins
Lewis Deskins

We hope your excellency will favouor the prayer of the foregoing petition

J M Elliott
C Buskirk
R. P. Robinson
Henry S Keathley
James M. Sowards
John Huffman
Jackson J Horries
Faral Willanger
R, G, Draper
John Chares
R. Brown
Sam. Robinson
James, Huffman
John, M^cGowen
W^m Williams
J M Jackson
William Dawson
Stephen Abram
Henry Childress
Joseph. E. Ratliff
L. C. Dils
William Beverly
F. M. Sword
Thomas Ratliff ser
C Buskirk
John Dils Jr
Sto R. Owens
John H Reynolds