Petition

John McCoy 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
Box / Folder
MG24-398 to MG24-399
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2243
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FTP Identifier
32210645

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John McCoy 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-0001-020-2243 (November 13, 2026).

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To the honerable Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky petition —

the undersigned petitioners respectfully state, to your Honour, that, Mr James Lackey formerly a citizen of Lexington, is now undergoing confinement and labour in the Penetentiary of Kentucky; they state farther that Said Lackey is very Young, and of pardoned, and restored to his friends, would make a usefull citizen — they think him a fit and proper subject, for executive clemency, they therefore earnestly and respectfully ask your Honour to grant, to said Lackey, a pardon and Your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray your Honours health and hapiness —

John McCoy

B F Graves
Jno C Hansbro
Frank Waters
Frank.G. Flanagan
E. D. Burke
John C. Breckinridge
Geo W Hunt
W. L Thwaits
R J Breckinridge Jr
John. M. Babb
Augustus Babb.
Dennis, Mulligan
Geo C Morris

Thomas G, Randall
Jno H Morgan
John B Pryor Jr
Thos Bradley
Chas Curry
C. C. Morgan
Joseph G Boswell
E R Hoagland
Geo A Shely
John W Bittenger
J. M. [Graves]

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Lackeys case
Peny — Franklin