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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-0001-020-1446 MG22-7 to MG22-8

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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner CalvinF. C. Jenkins would most respectfully State that at the last August Criminal and Chancery term holden for Marion County Ky he was convicted of the charge of permitting gaming in his house and was fined by a verdict of the jury and judgement of said Court the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars -- Your Petitioner would respectfully beg the indulgence of Your Excellency while he states the circumstances under which the indictment was found and judgement rendered Your Petitioner is a poor man with a delicate wife & several children and in order to make something to support himself & family purchased a small lot of ground in Chicago Marion County Ky a Depot on the Lebanon Branch of the Louisville & Nashville Rail Road and commenced to build & has built a house (tho not yet completed) with a view of Keeping a Hotel and has been Keeping a Hotel for some little time past- He had been before that time doing business in the way of selling goods in Raywick and had but a very small capital and besides what he had used to Support his family he had credited out and had all that he had in debts and as Raywick went down in

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in consequence of the building of the Rail Road he thought the best he could do to support his famly would be to trade his notes for lumber and being a cabinet workman with what he could do himself towards building a house he could build and perhaps do better as his business of Merchdising or making furniture had both failed tho his property is not yet paid for Now Your Petitioner Says he is a moral man and kept a very quiet orderly tavern -- It is true he permitted persons to play cards and dominos in his bar room for amusement and always forbid the playing for anything not even a treat and no playing of any Kind of game was ever done in the bar room for anything not even a treat nor was there any proof or pretense that any gamining for money or property was done then Your Petitioner is no gamester but in that neighborhood it ^is^ common among nearly all to play cards for amusemet being a peculiar feature of the habits of that part of the County- The manner in which Your Petitioner came to be convicted was as follows being a trading point and persons fequently desirous of doing private business would request the use of one of Petitioners upper rooms being no other private places in the place of cause

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Petitioner granted theseis request and in this way persons asked permission and on several occasions used the rooms for gaming purposes without however the Knowledge or consent of Your Petitioner but the law requiring Your Petitioner to prove a negative according to the ruling of the Court Your Petitioner conwas convicted when he was in fact & truth ^not^ guilty. If your Petitioner had wilfully & Knowlingly violated the law he would submit but he utterly denies he has and therefore prays Your exellencys interposition and that the fine be remitted

F. C. Jenkins

Sworn to before me by F C Jenkins Sept 5th 1861,

H. W. Purdy D. C

We the undersigned jurors in said case join in the prayer of Petitioner for a remission of his fine

E, H, O Daniel Ben Wheatley Wm Jarboe Jas Tylor

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We the undersigned join in the prayer of Petition & pray that the fine be remitted

Charles Jarboe Pius B, Odaniel R J O'Daniel Ben Spalding Jr Felix Smith N. S. Ray W, C, Jarboe A J Buford J A Jarboe F K Beaven Ben R. Smith G W Riggs R, D, Scott N. T. Hardey Henry Beaven David Ballard N K. Buckler D B Thompson Frank Bearman C, A, Jarboe W T, Dance H M Spalding Homer Elleen W, W, Purdy R C Harris W. D. Catlin J C Rusell J. A Mattingly H. Johnton H. W. Purdy Thompson John Shuck Thos. C. Woods C. H. Noble M. J. Lisle W. H. Wetherton G, S, Mock Piers Carrico T J ClarK A Corley Napoleon D. S. Coligan J B Wathen James Elder J W. Chandler O. J. Luckett J, Littlefield D, H, Howard Wm Milburn J H Edelen Rh M Spalding James. M,, Conn Geo, W. Lancaster Leo Beaven W Medley F B, Merimee