Petition

John Pace 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
MG24-407 to MG24-408
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2250
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FTP Identifier
32210652

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Dates
1858-04
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John Pace 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-0001-020-2250 (November 13, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
Harlan County
To Beriah Magoffin

Govenor of The Commonwealth of Kentucky Your petitioner ^John Pace^ would humbly State that at the April Term 1858 of the Harlan Circuit Court he was accused of the Offence of Buggery and upon a trial of said offence he was by a Jury of the County found guilty and his confinement fixed at the Term of Two years He says now he has been so confined at hard Labor, in accordance to the Judgt of the Court about Eighteen Months, He says according to testimony and law he was ^found^ guilty but the testimony upon which the conviction was had was faulse. He says he was a resident of Harlan County having married in said County and having three small children in said county upon the cold charaties of the world he says he is poor and understands his family greatly needs his assistance

Jno Pace

Wherefore he prays your Excellency to pardon him, and extend Mercy toward him and his little family and will ever pray & and we the undersigned Join in the prayer of the said Pace

Names
J D Corley
C B Brittan
John Jones

Names
Samuel Farmer
Speed Jones
Wilkeson Howard
Hezehiah Jennings

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Names
Henry Farler
James Farmer
Benjamin Lankford
Nathan Grider
Shade Helton
John W Howard
Lusk Howard
David Shook
Cary Brittain
J M Farler
A C Skidmore
J B. Coldiron
Wily Belcher
Milton Belcher
[...] Bale
Benjamin Posey
Nathan Noe
[...] Howard
A. B. Crilton
James Cultan
Eli Sturgill
William Turner Jr
A H Nolen
J. B. Lyttle
John Lewis
Acton Hyner
George Blanton
Hiram Jones
Jas G Howard
G W Creder D S
Martin Sergent

Names
William Clem S C
G W Franck
James Gray
W. Halldel
Stephen Daniel
John Dee
Leonard Farmer
William D. Green
E. F Gun
Luke Jones
William Green
John Crider
Wm Cadimore
Wm S. Howard
Jonathan Smith
William R. Hallan
Eli Howard
James thomas
Elkanah D. Bailey
G, B, Howard
M, G, Jones
Joseph Blanton
Joseph Wilder
Andrew Sergent
Able Smith
William Middleton
Samuel Eldridg

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Names
Carl Midelton
Walter Mdelton
Daniel Smith
James Turner Jr
Tomes Farley
Jams Bliens
Jems Short
Henry Cratt
Tom hensley
David mideton
Calvin pale
J. R. Bailey
Preston Harris
Hiram Skills
William Farler
[...] Eldridg
Preston Couch
Henry Browning
William C Farmer
James Buchhart
Lewis Farmer Sr
Jaems mitcel
Stephen Farmer
Jacob Stepp
William Oisbarr
Elias. H. Osborn
Calvin Noe
A. J. Long
Hiram Farmer
John Templeton

Names
Jacob Brawing S C
Isick noe
Nuton Day
Jonathan Osborn
Green Brock
Nathan Noe Jr
Hyram Faremr
Alfred S Hall
Wig. R. Hall
Hezkiah. H. Hall
John Deen
L. D. Hall
Nathaniel H Hall

John Pace, Harlan Co
Pen — Buggery —