<title type="main">Eli Watson et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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-0001-020-0595 MG18-418 to MG18-419

Brooksville, Bracken County, Kentucky Brooksville, Bracken County, Kentucky 1861-02-28 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Brooksville Bracken County Ky Februay 28th 1861 -- Honorable Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky Frankford Ky

The undersigned wer members of the Jury by whom Jacob Walker a citizen of this place was tried at the present term of the Backen Circuit Court upon an Inditment for setting lottery tickets in an enterprise known as "Morgan Gift Enterprise' drawn or distributed in the state of New Jersey

That from the evidence before them at their knowledge of Mr Walker, they are of opinion that he was not aware that in selling said tickets and distributing the gifts that he was violating any law, That Mr Walker is though poor an industrious and law abiding citizen and is a proper object of the exercise of your clemency and the recomed the remision of the fine so far as it is in your power to do so

Eli Watson Juormon G W Marshall Juror John H Snyder Ezra Ham Juryman Jonathan Hedgecock Juryman Samuel Shockey G T Schoolfield Jury man Robt Lytle Juryman Robert Ellis Jury man Jeremiah Clark Jury man John H Smarr Juryman James Bradford Jury man

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