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Petition

Hugh Craycraft et al. to James F. Robinson

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Document Genre: Petition
Repository: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection: Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863
Box / Folder: R4-421 to R4-422
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-029-0583
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FTP Identifier: 32211785

Mentioned in this document

People: Cisk, Aron; Lamblin, August; Morgan, Ephraim C.; Rais, Fran��ois; Martin, Frederick; Lamblin, George B.; Lee, Greenberry; McAllister, Harvey; Fagan, Henry; Craycraft, Hugh; Doyle, James; Middaugh, James; Smith, John A.; Colman, John; Criswell, John; Davis, John; Gray, John; Mackoy, John L.; Albertson, John T.; Pratt, John T.; Davis, Joseph; Barney, Len; Kenedy, Michael; O'Bryan, Michael; Walker, Mordecai; Mackoy, Moses, Jr.; Mackoy, Moses, Sr.; Warner, Nathaniel S.; Ross, Prospere; Walker, Richard D.; Flanigan, Richerd; Gordon, Robert D.; Criswell, Samuel A.; Crawford, Samuel; Hunter, Samuel; Berry, Samuel M.; Valence, Samuel; Williams, W. Henry; Ireland, William Crutcher; Harding, William F.; Haan, William; Pickens, William; Tarry, William; Miker, Yokam; Flanigan, [Cissell]
Places: Greenup County, Kentucky
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Greenup Circuit Court; Kentucky State Penitentiary
Dates: --07

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Hugh Craycraft et al. to James F. Robinson, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0583 (November 12, 2026).

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We the undersigned citizens of Greenup County, would respectfully represent, to his Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that George Lemiblin, a Frenchman of Greenup County, was found Guilty of Larceny, at the July term of the Greenup Circuit, and was Sentenced to ^confinement in^ the State, penitentiary for the period of [...] years the facts of his conviction, are as follows, the prisoner is a man of humble circumstances, is inductrious, & regarded as a man of honesty, But was intoxicated, when he killed the sheep, for which he was convicted, he killed the sheep in presence of some two or three persons, and Everything in the whole case indicates, no felonious intent on the part of the accused to Defraud the owner out of the value of the sheep, everything connected with the killing of the sheep was open & public, we therefore under

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under the circumstances, recomend him as a fit subject for Executive Clemency, and petition, his pardon

Hugh Craycraft —
By —
W. C. Ireland

August Lamblin

By W. C. Ireland — at his request.

Wm. F Harding

Harvey McAllister
By W F Harding
Len Barney

By Samuel Valence

Samuel Hunter

By W^m F Harding
Samuel Crawford

N. Walker

Samuel M. Berry