Correspondence

Thomas F. Hazelrigg to Beriah Magoffin

1861-01-19

Date of Creation
January 19, 1861
Place of Creation
Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Correspondence
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
MG18-138
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0410
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FTP Identifier
32208818

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Dates
1861-01-19
1861-01-16
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Thomas F. Hazelrigg to Beriah Magoffin, 1861-01-19, 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-0001-020-0410 (November 14, 2026).

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Mt sterling Ky Jany 19. 1861.
To the Governor of Kentucky,

Dear sir you will remember on the 16 Inst I. presented, a petition for the pardon of Stephen Hensley (who is in the penitentiary for two years). for false swearing) and asked you to Suspend any action on the petition untill I sent you a copy of the record, that you might see the whole case, that Record I now herewith send you: You can see How readily an illiterate ignorant man might have been inocently mistaken; that he was so his conduct before the Justice shows.

This mans family stand in great need of his services & If consistent with your Judgment of propriety I hope you will pardon him & send him home to his family.

The public interest cannot suffer I think by his release

Your obt. swvt
Tho. F. Hazelrigg

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His Excellency
Governor of Ky
Frankfort