C. H. Lee et al. to Beriah Magoffin
- Place of Creation
- Bracken County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Petition
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- 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
- MG25-56 to MG25-57
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-2304
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Citation
C. H. Lee et al. to Beriah Magoffin, 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-0001-020-2304 (November 12, 2026).
To his Excellency B Magoffin Governer of Kentucky
The undersigned Petitioner would respectfully state, that Wm D Ratcliffe was fined at the present term the Bracken Circuit Court in four cases for selling spiritous liquors to Minors Fifty Dollars in each case they would say that he is a Hotel keeper in the town Brooksville, and never sells or permits his clerks to sell his clerks to sell any spiritious Liquors to Minors but a [...] in at his house did sell, as the proof was Shows to Minors, once to each in the four cases above refered, and it would ^was^ be done without the knowledge or consent of said Ratcliffe Your petitioner would therefore pray your Excellency to remit said fines so far as is in your power to do
Names
C. H. Lee
G W Hamilton
Jno H Brudt
J. B. Clarke
P. H. Clayton D. S. B. C
John Schoolfield M Coms
Wm Marshall Jailer
Richd J. Hughey
John Ogdon
Wm Orr
William Tevis
Wm William S
Jacob Walker
H. C. Frank
William Kapler
Names
James W Melvin
Henry Carter
Jas. Donovan
H. T. Struve
John W Culp
A Bruns
Wm Jacobs
R S. Sallen
Jacob W. Colvin
Squire Jette
John Haley
Thos M. Grayson
M Rice
J Wm Figgins
Samuel Hedges
Georg.W. Mitchell
James.H. Murray
Joseph Norris
D. W. Madison
Richard Wells
K, P,, McMahan
Robert Ellis
Charles Dougherty
S. T Power
Nathaniel Browing
Henry Stoll
Richard Procter
John P [...]
G. P. Finn
John Cavlis
M W Flosen
W. B. H. Ambrose
H. A. Day
W H Reynolds Sheriff
I sincerely hope the Governor will remit the Fine — there are many extenuating circumstances and he is worthy of Executive clemency
W. E. Arthur
Atty Comth
J W Armstrong
Reuben Iman
Franklin Metcalfe
Joel McMahan
P R Swan
Shamds gleeson
Thomas Hackett
William Weaver
W W Williams
John H Smarr
James W Staton, Dy Clerk
Sam B Lewis
T. S. Curtis
S. R Linvill
James Pore
Nelson Wiley
M L W Dark
James M C Kinney
Isaac McKinney
A. A. Hamilton
R. H. Ware
J. W. R Corlis
John A Hunter
A P Frouk
James McDonald
L. M. Perkins
Jas M Mitchell
John Sherlock
Martin Dugan
J W Bowman
N B Worthington
P R Lucas
Jno W Heck
J K. Blades
J. S. Weisner
J B Morford Sen
Wm Hill
Joseph Newkirk
O. S. Cart
D Wood Jr
B. C. Clayton
Samuel Frank
G W Sanders
Emery Whitaker
W C Marshall — I am satisfied Mr Ratliff is endeavoring to keep a good house and comply with the law, the charges upon which he was found — was mainly by persons who were boarding about the house who acted in his absence & from what I understand is against his orders —
W C Marshall
John N Furber