To his Excellency
B Magoffin Gov^r of Ky

The undersigned Citizens of Union County would respectfully ask your Excellency to grant a Pardon to Vincent Shields now confined in the Penitentiary of the state under sentence of the Union Circuit Court

Vincent Shields is an old man has a family of Eight Children five or six of whom are quite young and in very limited Circumstances, requiring the care and attention of some one

We have also learned that he has become afflicted since his Confinement, and in all probability will not live until the expiration of his sentence. —

We therefore request that you grant him a pardon