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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0300 MG17-297 to MG17-298

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We the undersigned Citizens of Green county and neighbors of J. J. Russell and his father and Mother & Brothers, residents of said county ^state that^ said J J Russell has been tried for the alledged offence of Dis misdemeanor in Disfiguring or maiming stock and has been convicted and is now in the County Jail under Sentence for 4 months. we believe in all Sincerity and Candor that said Russell is innocent of the charge and we are satisfied that his Conviction has been brought about by unjust and unfair means. the chief Witnesses against him were his bitter Enemies who not only persecuted him in every way but prosecuted him by Employing some four Lawyers the ablest at the Bar in addition to the attorney for the Commonwealth and then becoming the chief witnesses in the case. We do not beleeve in all Candor that said Russell has had Justice done him -- he is a poor man with a wife and two little children who rely solely upon him for a support. he is an honest hard working clever man & has the good will of his neighbors and with the Exception of a few Enemies he stands fair and above suspicion of the crime. indeed we are satisfied he could not have been

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guilty of the crime as he could have proven by respectable testimony and a number of them that he was Elsewhere We state to your Excellency that his old father was a Veteran of the War of 1812 and done good Service for his country & we believe he has raised an honest and Clever family. the Defendant being one of them

We pray your Excellency to take this poor mans Case into your favorable Consideration and release him from this unjust imprisonment and restore him to his family. Which we are satisfied will be most heartily and Cordially approved by our Citizens and Especially those who Know the Deft best. all of which we respectfully submit to your Excellency we will add that the gloom prevading our land at present and the destress to theis community by the dry weather. calls aloud for the Sympathy of your Excellency to lend your authority to restore the unfortunate man to his familys aid

Jesse Young Joseph Davenport Alaxander N. Skaggs T. Skaggs P, D. Williams F Williams M. J Willilliams S Williams Washington Heron

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M. C. Skaggs R. J, Skaggs S. F, Skags James, Mathews John Mathews F Shuffit George B Boston Thomas Abner William Boston M. Boston Samuel F Wells, Wm P Forbis Thomas Mcurry David Forbis Paterson Jeffriers J. T. Houk Green Forbis, William Wallace Ser Richman Robinson Warren Erwin Mansfield Houk N, G, Forbis Wm McCandless Wm Wallace F. Wallace W,, Batey Samuel Pittman Gilbert. Isaacs Joseph Pittman Solomon Pittman James Pittman John Pittman Sterlin Pittman James Forbis Calvin Crail James Crail S Q Lively Joseph Abner James, Robinson Reuben Lobb W C Davenport William Lobb Z, R, Cannon N. R Shuffit David Towles

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J J Russell Petition Names of Petitioners on his behalf