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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-0001-020-1008 MG20-76

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Thomas Cravens would respectfully represent that at the August term of the Whitley Circuit Court for 1860 he was Indicted for carrying concealed weapons and that at this March Term he came forward plead guilty and was fined $50 The circumstances under which he was guilty are these he had been out to Rockastle County on business and when he was an intire stranger on his return and before he had been at home he was seen with the weapons & afterward Indicted -- Your Petitioner is a poor man and not able to pay the fine and if it is paid some of his friends will have to pay it for him or he will have to go to jail he asks that your Excellency will remit the fine and he promises that he will not be guilty of a like offinse agan

Thomas Cravens

The undersigned concur in the statements made in the Petition and ask the fine be remitted

R. Boyd S Denham H. L. Fox J L McCarty J H Scott

I wish you would remit the fine Times are hard the petitioner is poor

John Dishman W. H Randall

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Whitley Cir. Ct Remitted B. M $50. } Weapons Tho. Cravens IssdApr 9. 1861