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Samuel Baer et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Place of Creation: Owen County, Kentucky
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: MG24-222 to MG24-223
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-020-2140
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FTP Identifier: 32210547

Mentioned in this document

People: Moore, Benjamin; Evans, D. A.; [unknown], G. W.; Ford, George P.; Duncan, James A.; Harris, James; Suter, James M.; Wilson, James P.; Sebree, James; Vallandingham, James; Moore, John A.; Forsee, John Jamison; Knoll, John; Gallagher, John S.; Sebree, Lucy; Dawson, Merit, Sr.; Baer, Samuel; Tufts, Simon; Riley, W. J.; Gerald, William; Conder, William Henry; Bacon, William Preston; Roberts, William; Scott, [unknown]
Places: Kentucky; Owen County, Kentucky
Organizations: Boone Circuit Court; Kentucky State Penitentiary
Dates: --09

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Samuel Baer 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-0001-020-2140 (November 12, 2026).

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Owen County Kentucky
To his excellency Beriah M^cGoffin
Govenor of the Commonweth of Kentucky,

The Undersigned would respectfully represent in behalf of Ja^s Sebree convicted of the crime of Manslaughter on the person of William Gerald, at the Sept. term of the Boone Circuit Court; and Sentenced to the term of 5 years laber in the Penetentiary where he now is, that the Said Sebree is and always has been regarted by thos who knew him best as an unoffencive person of Scarcely sound mind and not in any degree dangerous in his disposition to the well being of Society and also that at the time the act was done he was labering under such a degree of excitment from liquer that he was in the [opinion] of Dr Scott who was examined at lenght on the trial, and also of the officer Mr [McNeely] who made the arrest a few houres after the, deed was accomplished he was the victim of mental aberration if not of deleriumtremens They would further represent that the said Sebree is Sixty years of age and that his wife who is still older, is devising his imprisenment dependent on charity for a living. and that he Sufferd before hiss trial an imprisenment of Six or eight months which so broke his constitution that he now his dangerously ill in the Penitintiery unable to do any laber and if still Kept in Confinement will in all human probability not Survive many months certinly not to the end of his time Wherfore, in view of all these facts we respectully beg that your Excellency would Graciously

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Exercise in this case the executive clemency and grant the said James Sebree a Pardon and immunity from all further effects of the sentence pronounced against him by the court as above stated

Samuel Baer
William Roberts
Geo. C. Roberts
Jo^s T. Roberts
G [Lusbey]
Lawrence Teal
W^m A Smith
Hamlet Sandford
H T Reynolds
J, P, Ford
W Teal
Ed. Lusby
Lafayette Stout
John Morrow
Chs P Kneder
Joseph Rinoch
Geo Green
Lawrence Sandford
Benj. H. Ford
W F Riley
James Havis
G. W. Craignyler
James Vallandingham
John. A. Moore
W. P. Bacon
J A Duncan
James M Suter
W H Conder

J. J. Forsee
A, B, Ford
George P. Ford
M Dawson
Ben Moore
Joseph Blackwell
W A. Goddard
Tho A. Ireland clk
thomas D Hareson
Lewis Pepler
Ben F Sidebottom
W. H. Moore
D F Stafford
A, J, Mason
W, H, Sandford
John Donovan
John Gallagher
Jas. P. Wilson.
John Knoll
D A Evans
[...] Haydon
Simon Tufts