James H. Swan 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
- MG25-87 to MG25-88
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-2326
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32210726
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- Dates
- 1860
Citation
James H. Swan 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-0001-020-2326 (November 12, 2026).
To his Excellency B Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Your petitioners would respectfully represent that they have been informed that J H Powell recently a citizen of the city of Memphis, state of Tennessee has been sent to the Penitentiary of the state of Kentucky from McCracken Co, for one year on a charge of larceny. Your petitioners state that they have been informed that said Powell's mind was impaired before he let the state of Tennessee on a visit to Kentucky in the summer of could the trial if the trial had been when the witnesses could have been obtained The petitioners, some of them from their own knowledge of Mr Powell, and others from information upon which they rely, believe that said Powell was an honest correct and industrious citizen up to the time where he visited Ky in the past summer. They therefore pray your Excellency to exercise your clemency in restoring said Powell to his distressed family, — & petitioners
will ever pray &c.
James. H. Swan
Depty. Us, Marshall
John, L, Webb
C, W, Mallory
R. Sigler
J, Halstead
W R McClelland
J C Ward
F A Park.
S B Newell
Wm W Coleman
Ben Harlan
Theodore Anderson
S. C. Snyder M. D.
J H Atkinson
A. C. Mallory
J. H. Robb
H L Caldwell —
Jno York
J. B Morrison
Francis Foster
John Stinnett
A. P. Morrill
R. Savage
D. L. Sullivan
W E Rogers
John L Morgan
Henry Clark of Frankfort Ky
Jno B. Ball
Herman F Hull
T. W. Mead
Quincy Hager
J Ogden Druggist
James Tuft
D H McClure
R M Spicer
Geo. C. Biles
R. L. Clark
Adam Ehrgate
F Meyer
Job Bledsoe
R. D. Ward
J A McFlaherty
Jno. D. Woodard
W. S. W. Montgomery
Caff. W Norey
R. Whitney Stble
G J Gordon
M. C. Cayce
R. E. Cayce
A C Walker
D Frank
C Van Camper
John F Sale
M. C Galloway
Ed W Manfred
P H Hammarskold
R. M. Giles
James Rose
S. V. Dixon
A K Donbrow
Chas. Scott
Joseph Barbarie
L. Ketchum
John A Bowen
E G Davidson
C W Mosby
J. L. Reister
Henry Kirkland
Geo, Dixon
Wm H. Stovall
E. M. Yeager
Jas B Thornton