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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0278 MG17-262

Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky 1860-12-31 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Greensburg Ky. Decr. 31st 1860 Beriah McGoffin Esq Governor of Kentucky Sir

I have seen the petition of Mr James Jones, asking the remission of a fine against him in the Taylor Circuit Court of $200, I have also seen the affidavits accompanying it -- In addition to all this, I have heard all the testimony in the case, detailed in the Green Circuit Court on the trial of his brother Edward Jones. For the situation of the matter was about this -- some years ago James & Edward Jones were indicted in the Green Circuit court jointly for permiting gambling in their grocery house; James Jones got a change of venue to Taylor County, Edward Jones was tried in Green and acquited. James Jones was afterwards tried in Taylor, and fined $200 aforesaid The same witnesses were examined in each case Wm Jones, the father of James & Edward testified that the grocery house was his, and that it was his liquor that was sold in it, that although not immediately attached to his dwelling house yet it was used by him as his bar room, he lived in the country some 14 miles, had license to keep tavern, and had built this room for a grocery and bar room for his tavern house these two boys lived with him, and each of them and occasionally both of them attended the house for him, that the house was under his control and supervision -- ^upon^ this evidence, together with the testimony as set forth in the affidavits Edmund Jones was acquitted -- I was not present at the trial of James Jones, but am informed

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His Excellency Beriah McGoffin Frankfort Kentucky