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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-0001-020-0985 MG20-44

Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky 1861-04 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Brownsville Ky April 1861 To His Excelency Honr Beriah Mcgoffin

Your Petitioners Would Respectfully Represent To your honor that Joseph Lewis Sr was fined at the March Term of the Edmondson Equity & Criminal Court Twenty Dollars for Betting Ten cents on a Game of Chuckluck We would Represent to your honor that Mr Lewis is a very Poore Man and that he has a Large family to support and that his Wife is a very Sickly Wooman and that he is scarcely abel to pay Support his family and that it would be a Great Hardship for him to have to pay the said fine that if he is compeled to pay the fine that it will be Taking it from his Wife and Children We therefore hope that your Honor will Remit the fine as Mr Lewis is not a betting Man he is not in the Habit of Betting and by Remiting it you will confer a Lasting favor on a Poor Man and his family

J E Bacon J P E C Thos. F Spilman J. P. Jackson Wm Meredeth S, E, C James Matison L W Brown J W Steward Jesse C kinser V. H. Jones M, N, Drake Amos James James A, Bledsoe Edmond Long Robert Hughley W, W, Palmer Moses Houchin Lewis M Harlip

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R. S. Hayslip William Weiler E Mise Johnson J. D. Houchin Russell Jones Danel Henson S B Hughes W H Skaggs Treford Brown A, J, Lindsey Basil Skaggs Robert Closfuill Heath Asel Houchen Washington Hanes Thos. Y. Nichols S, G, Mateson Wm O. Laret J,, W,, Bailey Thos S. Sanders Thomas conway C kinser P. B. Waters W. H. Burk W B Barnes L. W. Merideth Larkin J. Procter John G Buillock W. F. Frost J J Johnson

Remitted B. M Edmonson E. & C Ct $20. } Gaming Jos. Lewis Sr IssdApr. 9. 1861