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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-0001-020-0865 MG19-361 to MG19-362

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the State of Kentucky

Your petitioners would represent that at the February term of Bracken Circuit Court W. D Ratcliffe was fined the sum of two hundred dollars ^each^ in two cases for permitting gameing on his premises

They state that the offence was from the proof a verry small one, in the first case, the playing was done by some young men who were guarding a lunatic and during the night they engaged in a game of cards at fivecents a game in order to keep awake, and in the second case some workmen in his employ played for enough money to buy a watermellon And the petitioners think that the cost and fees of the Commonwealths attorney is ample punishment for so small an offence

Wherefore they ask you to remit the ballance of the fines

B. G. Willis G. P. Freese Samuel. H. Moore J R Morris S W Norten Jno H. Bonde G. W. Hamilton Wm Williams H, A, Day J. S. Ryan Henry. E. Ware H. C. Frank J. J. Schoolfield David Wayne A. A. Hamilton Thornton Hamilton H, P, Flower F. A. West R. J. Harney A Matthews A G McDonald John H Ellis J R Swan D. J. Wallin

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Names to the within petition C, H, Lee Wm. C. Prather Milton Tevis J B Clarke Nelson Plumer Mat G Thompson Isaac West Thomas Gleeson Levi Perkins

I know nothing about the facts -- but I take pleasure in signing this Mr Radcliff is a werthy man and werthy of Executive clemency

W. E. Arthur Atty for Com'th Thornton. F. Marshall Jno N Furber B, C, Clayton Jos Doniphan Q R Linvell John R. Linvell G H B. Thompson John H Culp Thos Brierly P, H, Clayton John Best John Schoolfield Richd. J. Hughey Saml. T. Marshall David. Wood Robt. P. Crupper J. S. Whisner J. P. Morris M McClenahan Thomas Willson H C. McClenahan J W McClenahan Joseph Norris Henry C Murray Franklin Metcalfe Andrew F Rice Mikel Rice Marion Brown John W Jennings J. C. Burns W T Dailey Freidrick Morgan Lewallen Gallaspie David York W.. S.. Elliott Samuel Murphy Joseph Chiefman Wagner T H Soward Jowele Menejer A. Kyle James. P. King Augustus A Wood Thomas. Costacan T,, B,, Moorhead Florence Mccarty Jos Kenton J W Walker R, A, Strmee Robert Coleman Thomas P Howard

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Names to within petition Joshua Ryan J. Davis O K Shroubue J O Overturf J W Baumard G. W. Barkley Harry. P. McMahan Elijah W Kemp James W. McGill Steward McCasky John H McClenahan J H Murray John Dolafus O A McClanahan Alfred Beronk elison Peell Lewis Golden C McAlevy Jas. W. Jennings H, C, Yates John, W, Cooper E D Williams Th'd, Galbraith James R Norris Robt, C, Clayton A S Daley Joseph West Thomas Morton W C E Clark D C Akin F, W, Asbury N P, Culp R G Akon P. Mann Daniel Mann D T Jett William Robinson Richard Wells Jacob. W. Curts E H Gibson Henry Still Elijah Walker W Shower J, H, W, Jas, M, Mitchell Wesley Vickroy Peyton Murphy W W McDonald G R Askin John Mayne John Bunker Elbert Hunter A Feagan W. M. Best Wm H. Smitron T. B. Grigson Levi B Redden Henson Owens W. W. Poe Zachas Turner Wm. Wadkins J. B. Holton Joseph Newkirk Robert. A. Connely H. Huddleston Josh. A. Sellers L A Murray John Sherlock

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John S Morford John Corks Jas,, Donovan Samuel Trink Wm, J, Haley Abraham Free Edward Flood J B Gibson E W, Linnie George W Fronk B, C, West John Taylor James F Snyder G, A, Pribble W Robinson Sam Bowman John E Ludwig Lanel Bowmon William Renby Wm T. Weiner Wm Higgins S B Hamilton Augustus Martin Nicholas Cook Isaac Teagarden John Redden John W Melvin Wm Black J. W. Armstrong. Lewis P Knoedler John M. Judd James B. Ryan Jam Owens Alf N, Myers J E Ames A Theobald H Heiniker W. A. Doniphan R D Smith J Mad Bradford Nicholas Stroube George O'neal, F. L. Cleveland

27 100 25 95 $175

Bracken Cir. Ct Remitted B. Magoffin $200. two Judgts W. D Ratcliffe IssdMar 20. 1861