Caloway Marcum to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-0419

Document Genre

Petition

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG18-151

Place of Creation

Lawrence County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

n.d.

Dates Mentioned

1859-04

1861-01-22

Caloway Marcum to Beriah Magoffin, n.d., Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG18-151, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0419, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Your umbal petioner Caloway Marcum states that at the April Term of the Laurence Circuit Court 1859 there was a judment rendered aganst him for $50 ⁰⁰/₁₀₀ and cost and he state to your worshup that since that time he has unfortunatly got shot in the Knee with a, gun which renders him unholy able to perform any Kind of Laber and he is in tirely with out any means of subsitens and with out any Kind of means to pay the same and to Execute the Law the officer would have to take me and deliver me to the jailer there to be confined for one Hundred day rendering me miserabl and desgrasing me for Ever the offersers will releas there costs and your umble petitioner would ask and dos ask you to remit the fine as to hold it aganst him would not profert the State any thing and the offercr will watt a resonable time to here from you before they delivr me to the Jailer my relation is not able to pay the fine and are hardly able to give me some thing to Eat or they would pay it for me -- if it had not hapened that I got shot I would not have asked for you to
interposed and remited the fine but as it is I umbly ask it of you and ~~umbly ask it of you~~ will be thankful

Caloway Marcum

I would just state that he is un able to work and I have no doubt will remain so from the shot mention and is not able to pay the same and will releas the Cost that is coming to me and it would be an act of Charity to releas the fine

Yours &c
M B Goble C L C C

I told Mr Marcum that it was unnessery to get a hole [rotun] of signers to his petition that the fact was prperly stated and I had no doupt you would remit the same without that

M, B, G,

Lawrence Cir Ct
Remitted
B M

$50
C. Marcum
Iss^d Jany 22 1861

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