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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-0001-020-0289 MG17-280 to MG17-281

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To His Excellency the Govenor of Kentucky:

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that at the May Term (1860) of the Washington Circuit Court Judgement for a fine of $40.00 was rendered against Ben Steinbergen on a charge of selling loaning or giving whiskey to a slave." It was testified on ^the^ trial by persons, that they procured and furnished a negro with a bottle and accompanied him to Steinbergen's house, around which they watched while the Slave obtained the whiskey from him, on some pretext suggested by them; and by their stratigem the Indictment was procured by violent personal enemies of Said Steinbergen,

The charge is improbable and inconsistent with character and habits of Mr Steinbergen. He is a poor man with a wife and young Children, and is unable to pay the fine.

We do no believe there was any wilfull violation of law on his part, though technicalities prove his guilt, and we therefore, most respectfully ask a remission of his fine,

Thomas Champion R M Anderson Wm Funk Wm H Canary martin Young Stephen N Dorsey Andrew N Hundley William Hundley Henry Bevins Thos M. Claybrook Robert. W. Claybrook J. D Whayne S. B. Montgomery W. F. Montgomery Wm C Hilton Henry Hilton OS Graves Nathan Graves

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John.T. Barker Wm R Logsdon Johnsey Dorsey Richard Dorsey T, O, Wilson Thomas Elliott Jas Funk H T Funk T. M. Bolling Jefferson Smolley Charles S. Hundley J S Baker John T Brady J. B. Hunter R P Kindrick John.A. Kindrick G M, Riley Jas. Rosenfeld Geo Hayes Thos R, Walker