<title type="main">Ruben Rucker to Beriah Magoffin

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November 11, 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-0001-020-0600 MG18-425

Clark County, Kentucky Clark County, Kentucky 1861-02-04 Petition English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.

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To his Excellency the Governor of the state of Kentucky.

Your petitioner Reuben Rucker would respectfully state, that an indictment was found in the Clarke Circuit Court against his son William Rucker for forgery at the Novr term of said court in the year 1859. That the prosecution was set on foot out of a spirit of revenge, and for the purpose of vexation and annoyance. That the prosecution has been abandoned and the indictment filed away, but it may be called up hereafter for the purpose of annoyance, to prevent which he petitions your excellency to grant his son a pardon, so that he may be entirely relieved from future trouble and annoyance -- He does not believe that there were any grounds for the prosecution and believes that it originated in a spirit of revenge

Feb 4th 1861 Ruben Rucker