Petition

James Ervin 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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MG24-349
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2219
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James Ervin 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-0001-020-2219 (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 & Criminal 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 crim 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.

James Ervin
T. J. Stewart
H. H. Stewart
Ed Molison
Tho B Greem
James Greem
William Ervin
J. H. House
T. B. Johnson
Patrick Carbery
Wm R Vance
C. C. Stewart
G. L. Porter

B. R Bocum
John Purdy
J. C Yantis
Wm Davis
J hom Keley
Gilbert Thomas
T. M Long Jr
Wm M Lillard
T Thayer
J G Long
G. W. Ward
B C. Henshaw
E. Taylor

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A. W. Cugbery
W. [Dacus]
John Fiske
W. R Smith
Elisha Hale
E. G Buchanan
T. E. Abbey
Geo E K Sundy
R H McMullen
Thos L Penebaker
A C [...]
Henry Long
W, W, Wilkinson
W. W. Gray
W. A. Porter
F. F. Foby
Will P. James
Thos P. Walter
J W Doughty
J H Williams
Loyd Pickett
J. Humphrey

A Russell
W S Jordan
Wm E Sublett
A L Justice
W. M. Humphrey
G A Bellamy
W. W. Walker
John Lees
John J. Holmes
H H Hilton
L C A Inderstroth
J Massy
J. W. S. Pingle
W. G. Layton
Wm Tobbin
Geo W Nelson
Henry E Henshaw his X mark
E Harrison