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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-0001-020-0735 MG19-143 to MG19-144

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22nd March 1861 To his Excellency Beriah McGoffin Gov of Kentucky

Your petitioners would Respectfully solicit your excellency to remit a fine of forty Dollars against Nathan & Reuben Blevins assessed at our Taylor Circuit Court in March 1861. The judgment was rendered under the charge or indictment of their haveing gambled in a card game at five or ten cents a game about four years ago, and it is generally believed that the process against them was maliciously gotten up. they both being very poor men of large families, and utterly unable to defend a suit or employ and pay counsel- in such a suit- and do their families justice. The commonwealth haveing failed to sustain by proof the charges set forth in the indcitment, and the decision of the jury being contrary to the instructions of the presiding Judge. We your humble petitioners would pray the fine be remitted as we have known them for many years and think them to be orderly citizens and law abiding men- and we, their neighbors, & your petitioners, believe they will better invest the amount of sdfine Judgment to ^the^ support and comfort of their families than in paying off an unjust fine.

Yours Respectfully Richard Skaggs Wm A. Elkins Wm L Mudd Elisha Ruark Jas Roberts Elisha Chaney Wm C. Thompson Solomon Thompson

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Names Continued J. L. Renfro. John Hash H James nelson Chas Thompson Peter Martin Chas H. Blevins Felix G. Warren H. T. Elijah Johnson James Edwards Wm. J. Underwood Wm A. Underwood W. S. Renfro Solomon Linville G W Durnall John Thompson Wm L Thompson George Pearcy Stephen Perkins James Mears John Hutchinson A. G. Fields H. C. Fields Elijah pierce William P Morrisson Benjamin Jones John Underwood Arnee Nelson Woven Thompson Drevory Thompson John Light Jesse,, Johnson Abriham Underwood Louis Johns David Roberts William Bell William H Thompson Valentine P. Town William Johnson Joel Underwood D B Phillips George T Caselwood Whitley Darnall J. S. Beauchamp F B Beachamp Jeremiah Johnson Wm S Peace B. P. Shopsire William T. Underwood Henry Johnson J. W. Overstreet Louis H Dodson John Pierce Jackson Skaggs James S Underwood N R Smith L J Underwood James Perkins Wm L. Skaggs John C. Warren William Light James Light

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Wm Etherton Thomas Thompson Samuel Nelson Joshua Beard Drury D.. Spain Perry Mony Wm Etherton Jr Wm Ruark J. T. Hagan Jas Money Jesse Purvis George Workman Ben Mudd As many more names can be obtained if necessary

Taylor Cir. Ct Respite12 Remitted B. M $40. } Gaming N. & R. Blevnins IssdApr 17. 1861