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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-0001-020-1387 MG21-328 to MG21-329

Magoffin County, Kentucky Magoffin County, Kentucky 1861-07-17 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Magoffin Court To his excelency Beriah Magoffin governer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Your petitioner Daniel Reed would state that Some time about the Day of Jany 1860 your petitioner was on some business in the village of Bloomington in Magoffin County & State of Kentucky and one Archibil prater bought some whisky and brought it out into the Road and Indited this petitionr and Several others and often they had drank Some of Said Liquor this complainant was siting on the ground Some person rode up behind him and asked him to hand him- the Cup and without reflecting abut who it was made the requst took up the Cup and reached it back over his shoulder and some person took it out of his hand and when his attention was called to it it turned out to be a Slave of the heirs of B F Gardin who had made the request and the Slave may have Drank some Liquor out of Said Cup the grand Jury for Magoffin County at its Jany Term 1860 one of whom was present made an Inditment for the Slave and at the present July Term -- of the Magoffin Circuit Court he was fined the Sum of $2000 Dollars he State he had no Intention of violating any Law he did not Know that there was any Liquor in the cup or Reason of or the Nature or effect of it he therefore thinks it is a case the requires executive clemency he therefore asks your

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excelency to Remit Said fine and all Proper Relief July 17 1861

Daniel Reed

the undersigned Join with Mr Daniel Reed and think it shoul be Remited

Asa Dunn Jun Saml M Calay &gt; Jun Wm Arnett Abner Salyer -- Juror. Ths B. Victor Juror Jonas H Willins Juror Isaac Pucket- Juror Wm F Gullett Jur Rubin Arnett Jurer William B Prater Jurer Saml My Jur Alfred Howard Jirn

I Wallis Berely clerk of the Circuit Crt for Mgoffin Cuoty that the above was the Jury that tred Dec d

July 17' 1861 Daniel Wallis Baley Clk Thoms L prater Deal Cole Gilbert A Adams Holloway Power Co Judge James May Wm p Bailey Isaac J Ward L W Conley Saml F May J L A Baily Benjamin Puckett Joshua Bays A. C. Bailey Wm L Salyer J W Helter Samul Salyer Wallis Baley clk D D Sublett Wm S Adams M W Hantel

Daniel Reed is a good Citizen & your Excellency would do right to remit his fine

A. J. May Commonwealth Atty ProTem

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J E Cooper James May sr Stephen Arnett Wm Arnett Franklin Arnnett John Trusty J. P. Prater Edward Evans Wm' Dyer B F. Howard T R Warsham William Lipkins Stephen Howard Sheriff Wiley Adams James Howard esq G W Rice Able Caudill Wily J Cooper

The case of D Reed is one that clearly warents Executive interposition. I hope the governor will remit the fine

Wm. H. Burns

William Adams

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Magoffin Cir Ct Daniel Reed To } Petition Commonwealth

Remitted -- B M

$20. } liquor to a slave

IssdSept 20. 1861