Petition

J. Cooper et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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Petition
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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
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MG25-3 to MG25-4
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KYR-0001-020-2263
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J. Cooper 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-0001-020-2263 (November 14, 2026).

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To the Hon Beriah Magoffin,
Governor of Kentucky,

The undersigned respectfully represent, that a year or more ago, Henry C. Helvenstive was convicted in the Mason Circuit Court, of the offense of having either passed counterfeit money, or of having it in his possession with the intention of passing the same, and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years,

Before his sentence he made a full confession, and there is a strong reason to believe that he is not a hardened man, but had been operated upon by men of stronger minds, and were families with crime, and had been led into the offence for which he was punished more as a dupe, than a willing participant in crime, He has given valuable information to the offices of law, in regard to the criminal conduct of the men who used him to screen their own designs, and having already served a year of his term, we respectfully ask that he may now be pardoned,

He has a wife and several children who are almost destitute, His wife is feeble, and with all her exertion is unable to make even a scanty support for the family,, For her sake, upon where the punishment falls most heavily, we earnestly request that the balance of his term may be remitted, Very respectfully,

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J. Cooper
R Smoot
A. H Ham
James Lee
Daniel Hamilton
Samuell hamllton
John Smoot
S J Smoot
C B Skinner
E D Smoot
M. C Smoot
D N Skinner
T, Jones
M G Jones
Henry C Ferguson
W Bevines
William L Tomson
Wm thompson
S Newman
James v Payn
Abashel Smoot
W M peirce
Mah Z Jones
Tm Crain
W Roise
Orison T G Crawford
John Limison
g Smoot
A Shields
W F Davis

A. T Tomson
M Troyse
E K Hayden
James Crawford
Chaley neales
W T Raovs
Wm Filson
William pendlan
urel harget
H Denton
Moses Saunders
S H Day
James Harmon
Joseph hanelton
J Fompson
A T Shields
D M faras
S F Cline
Trunan Day
E, E busky
W J glover
H. M Pearse
J H Downey
D P Cooper
E Z Evans
D N pawns
F Morgan
Sanford Rawlings
John busby

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William Downey
reuben Denton
T Walton
G M Filson
isac pearse
B f Bears
James denton
B R harget
A Roice
Nathaniel Randall
S T Crain
J C Reavs
silvester Estell
John Crain
B Rice
John Plank
John king
T vice
James M Crump
W harget
V Crain
James gray
Francis pears
Sampson Day
Foster Lillton
Robert grahan
R Rissick
Siles Bass
James Evins
A Rawlings

D. S. Reeves
John roys
F day
Thomas Tompson
J B pheps
L Arnold
Z. W. moore
B royse
J kathly
Alford Fawnds
Wm pawns
St Clair Smoot
Thomes Myeres
George Elot
E phillips
William Emens
Georg reeves
M Rawlings
John Reves
B. plumer
F Myers
R Plummer
samuel plumer
T Adams
John MClain
S Mclain
S F Emmons
John Clapole
samuel Capoll
J likes

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Reubin Smoot
Howard McCain
H plumer
Allen Story
William Mclain
[M Faires]
Lewis Filson
D B sheperd
T Smoot
C Littleton
Samuel hackten
K Smoot
T M Loins
S D Loynes
J Easton
J W Loins
William Rawlings
James Gorrell
M. S. Gorrell
Robert Dowry
Wm Hamilton
M C Lyons
Charles Emmons
Henry Husk
James Yazel
G W Taylor
F M Taylor
James H wirt
W S Beaucamp

H [Mayonce]
Benj Plummer
B Sutton
W Keanan
John Hughs
A Jordon
I W Armstrong
Wm F Jones
John Goman
Thomas oliver
James M Roly
R M Barlkley
W A [Siant]
A [Hanirt]
Henry Mantyn
Jesse Hurst
John Jordon
E H Jones
L H Staggs
R P Samuel
Samuel Hisner
T B Jones
Thomas Houghs
Dudley Jordan
Th S Smoot