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William R. Vance et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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
Box / Folder: MG18-33
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-0344
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FTP Identifier: 32208752

Mentioned in this document

People: Gorton, A. A.; Russell, A.; Haile, Benjamin T.; Magoffin, Beriah; McKinney, Candor; Mason, David; Ray, Eli; Porter, George L.; Heath, George P.; Ostrander, J. B.; Jackson, John M.; Morton, John V.; Long, John W.; Slankard, John W.; Ferguson, Joseph; Bartlett, Lycurgus P.; Elliott, Peter P.; Taylor, Philip; Lewis, R. J.; Caldwell, S. H.; Smith, W. R.; Cook, William; Cromwell, William; Long, William; Hubbard, William McKean; Morgan, William; Wilkinson, William P.; Vance, William Rannells; Sublett, William Walker; [Unknown], [Unknown]
Places: Clinton, Kentucky; Hickman County, Kentucky
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Hickman Circuit Court; Kentucky State Penitentiary
Dates: --08-10

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William R. Vance 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-0001-020-0344 (November 12, 2026).

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To Bariah M^cGoffin
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners respectfully represent that at the Last Term of the Hickman Criminal and Equity court held in Clinton John W. Long was indicted for the Murder of W^m Long, that the indictment was found by the grand Inquest of the county at said Term and within four days therafter the defendent was placed on trial, that defendent was poor and not able to employ Counsel, that Counsel [was] assigned him by the Court but from the professional engagements of his said Counsel the defendent Could not avail himself of their Services in his case.

That defendent was placed upon trial and found guilty of Murder in the first degree and by the judgment of the court sentenced to be hung on the 10^th dy of August next, Your petitioner would respectfully call your attention to the facts of this case as the same appear from an exemplification of the Record in this case and Earnestly pray the interposition of Executive Clemency in his behalf, and that his punishment by commuted to imprisonment in the Penetentray of this State for any term of years which to your Excellency may seem right and proper

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Names,
W^m R. Vance
J B Ostrander
Geo L Porter
John W Slankard
[T] C Yantz
C M^cKinney
J. M. Jackson
W. Cromwell
R. J. Lewis
L P Bartlett
G. H. Smith
David Mason
Philip Taylor
John. V. Morton

Names.
B. T,, Haile
William Morgan
Geo P Heath
S K Caldwell
Eli Ray
W. M^cK Hubbard
A A Gorton
J P Ferguson
A Russell
W. R. Smith
Will P. Wilkinson
P, P, Elliott —
W^m Cook
W. Walker Lublette