Petition

Moses Washburn to Beriah Magoffin

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
MG25-161 to MG25-162
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2375
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FTP Identifier
32210775

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Dates
1861-03
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Moses Washburn 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-0001-020-2375 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency B Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned would respectfully represent that at the March Term 1861, of the Shelby circuit court, he was under Indictment fined $300 — for keeping a disorderly house He would respectfully represent that the fine is oppressive in the extreme He admits that he did get a little two much licker aboard & that whilst in that condition some of his neighbors came to his house and according to old fashioned hospitality he offered them something to drink, as he had a right to do — he drank with them and he became very noisy — he is now an old man, raised up under the old hospitable habits of Kentucky and has never joined the new fangled temporance society he was ^on^ his own premisses and never intended to disturb his neighbors — it being in the country — the costs & attorneys fee will be a pretty dear price for a frolic he therefore prays your Excelency to remit said judgment, & as in duty bound he will ever pray &c

Moses Washburn

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We the undersigned unite with the Petitioner in asking a remission of said Judgment

J M Bullock
Lewis Long
John A. Middelton Jr
David Brown
M D Rowland
P. H. Mason[himeg]
Michal Muloney
J, S, Ray
E M Baskett
G H Storts
John Radford
Jesse Baskett
J. G. Hansbrough
John S Porter
D McCrisster
A V Harris
Jesse Robinson
J H Bohannon
Geo Wood Meriwether
J S Gibbs
C. Spoldin
John W. Branch
E Jenkins
J. C. Davidson
H. A. Williams
R T. Owen
M W Railey

John H Chinn
John P Aldridge
James ,W, Figg
John McCluskey
J W, Ball
Jacob Lyth
Henry Harris
J, W, Davis
W S Floyd
K C Utterback
Geo: Turner
Bushrod Figg
S G Adams
R. R Russell
J S Davis
W D Shaire
Henry Burnett
W. B. Moseley
John. T. Figg
E. G. Dear
James T Baskett
Samuel, Carson
Jno. Brown
A. D. Hickman
B R Jones
J. W Cardin
W A Jones

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Names
B T Catton
Samuel Johnson
Robert Green
J. N. Langsford
John T Ballard
John Welson
J. H. Magruder
T G Gruber
S. V. Colegrove
B.. Washburn
W, H, Thomas
John W Stevens
Geo W Stevens
S. G. Maddox
Lee B. Myles
Thomas W Fault
Daniel Johnson
D. J. Johnston
M Button
Henry Johnson
Jos P Forel
John Davis
A W Banta
Jery W Moore
R B, Belwood
S S Alexander

Watson Waters
W. M. Belwood
S T Blades
D S Crowly
J S Banta
Warner Clayton
S S Banta
Joseph. N Yount
John McKenzie
Wm Guthrie
James S. Guthrie
W R. Campbell
John LeCompte
J, M, Underwood
T. L. Boulware
Richard H Shuck
WP. Emerson
T. M. Nousel
S. Godshaw
J O Clonnell
George Wells
Edward Green
Charles Green
John Keiser

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R, H, Kliser
S S Hall
Benjamin Washburn
Wm C Horman
W. Thomas
C S Moore
Robt K Moore
G. L. Bird
Jonathan Harrigton
Wm C. Bullock
Jas H Beckley

I think the fine agaisnt Moses Washburn is excessive

J. T. Caldwell