Petition

W. T. Kemp et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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
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MG17-316
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0315
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W. T. Kemp et al. to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0315 (November 13, 2026).

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To his Excellency B Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Hickman, Graves and Ballard Counties respectfully represent that at the last term of the Hickman Equity & Cirminal Court J W Long was tried and convicted for the crime of murder, your petitioners further State, that they have heard many facts that induce them to believe that there is a great probability that the crime committed by Said Long was Manslaughter, instead of murder. as found by the verdict of the Jury, and we believe that his Case presents Strong grounds for the interposition of Executive Clemency, Wherefore we Respectfully ask your Excellency to commute the punishment of Said Long to imprisonment for life or a term of years

[...]

W. T. Kemp
John T. Moore
A J M Caldwell
Thos Hales
W F B
J C Akin
Wm H,, Jordan
J.. B.. Reilly
Thos Easter
S H Cullum
Thomas Brown
Isaac. Owens.
Joseph H Stone
J P Brigg
B, w, milner
C C Jackson

C, L, King
H C Watson
G. w. Miller
Willis White
W. H, Smith
W. R. O'bryant
H J Hales
B, C, Bugg
J Reeves
H,, W, Rouse
Thomas. Rash.
J M Stephens.
A, Edwards

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George Winter
J, W, Lumsden
Simeon [Woods]
W, A. [Gossum]
S A Bone.
Watkins Webb
N M Barnes
H L, Roberts
B, F, Zack
W, White
Thos G Jordan sr
P P Elliott
R. M. Seay
Alfred Harris
James Bell.
J. R. Haysdale
William [McSheen]
John, St John
J D Brummal
F: George
N Turk
Wm T, Todd
A, J, Davis —
L. Penn
P P. Cartwright
D L Adams
John Pinkerton
John Davis
J F Moore
O, Turner
J M [Kemp]
J D Smith
[...] E A Horton
T J [Waryen]
W B Denis
J W Mores

John, Mc,Whorter
B Mathews
John W Stone
Geo, W, Stone
W A Ward
Thomas Winn Jr
F. M. Messen
David Harper
Edward Goode
Babel Willingham
[...] M Douglas
H, L Loving
Thomas H Richardson
R J Duellry
C McKinney
[...][...] Bunch
W. H. Watson
G. B. Stovall
A, Mathews
William Killd
W, C, Linn
L. T Owen
A Deam
T H Byrd
S Falley
R M Roach
W. L. Tally
J F Glealson
J J Mathew
R M Shelton
T E Puckett
B F Crooks
G, W, Sulevan
Wm Hughs
William Sulevan
Robert Adams

[Page 3] Sam

Petition of Wm Long

Petition of Wm Long
Petition of Wm Long
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