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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-0001-020-2375 MG25-161 to MG25-162

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To His Excellency B Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned would respectfully represent that at the March Term 1861, of the Shelby circuit court, he was under Indictment fined $300 -- for keeping a disorderly house He would respectfully represent that the fine is oppressive in the extreme He admits that he did get a little two much licker aboard & that whilst in that condition some of his neighbors came to his house and according to old fashioned hospitality he offered them something to drink, as he had a right to do -- he drank with them and he became very noisy -- he is now an old man, raised up under the old hospitable habits of Kentucky and has never joined the new fangled temporance society he was ^on^ his own premisses and never intended to disturb his neighbors -- it being in the country -- the costs & attorneys fee will be a pretty dear price for a frolic he therefore prays your Excelency to remit said judgment, & as in duty bound he will ever pray &c

Moses Washburn

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We the undersigned unite with the Petitioner in asking a remission of said Judgment

J M Bullock Lewis Long John A. Middelton Jr David Brown M D Rowland P. H. Masonhimeg Michal Muloney J, S, Ray E M Baskett G H Storts John Radford Jesse Baskett J. G. Hansbrough John S Porter D McCrisster A V Harris Jesse Robinson J H Bohannon Geo Wood Meriwether J S Gibbs C. Spoldin John W. Branch E Jenkins J. C. Davidson H. A. Williams R T. Owen M W Railey John H Chinn John P Aldridge James ,W, Figg John McCluskey J W, Ball Jacob Lyth Henry Harris J, W, Davis W S Floyd K C Utterback Geo: Turner Bushrod Figg S G Adams R. R Russell J S Davis W D Shaire Henry Burnett W. B. Moseley John. T. Figg E. G. Dear James T Baskett Samuel, Carson Jno. Brown A. D. Hickman B R Jones J. W Cardin W A Jones

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Names B T Catton Samuel Johnson Robert Green J. N. Langsford John T Ballard John Welson J. H. Magruder T G Gruber S. V. Colegrove B.. Washburn W, H, Thomas John W Stevens Geo W Stevens S. G. Maddox Lee B. Myles Thomas W Fault Daniel Johnson D. J. Johnston M Button Henry Johnson Jos P Forel John Davis A W Banta Jery W Moore R B, Belwood S S Alexander Watson Waters W. M. Belwood S T Blades D S Crowly J S Banta Warner Clayton S S Banta Joseph. N Yount John McKenzie Wm Guthrie James S. Guthrie W R. Campbell John LeCompte J, M, Underwood T. L. Boulware Richard H Shuck WP. Emerson T. M. Nousel S. Godshaw J O Clonnell George Wells Edward Green Charles Green John Keiser

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R, H, Kliser S S Hall Benjamin Washburn Wm C Horman W. Thomas C S Moore Robt K Moore G. L. Bird Jonathan Harrigton Wm C. Bullock Jas H Beckley

I think the fine agaisnt Moses Washburn is excessive

J. T. Caldwell