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 November 12, 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-0001-020-0303 MG17-302

Breathitt County, Kentucky Breathitt County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency, Beriah Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Your petitioner Jacob Neace respectfully represents to your excellency, that at the Term of the Breathitt Circuit Court, he was Indicted for malicious stabbing and at the October term of said Court 1859, was tried upon said indictment, and the Jury found him guilty of stabbing in sudden heat of passion, and fined him Fifty Dollars and imprisoned him six-months in the county jail of Breathitt county. Your petitioner further represent to your excellency, that he is a very poor man, and has a large family to support and his only method of obtaining that support is by daily labor; and if compelled to lay in jail six months and pay said fifty Dollars, his wife and little children will undoubtedly suffer; He further represents that at the time he stabbed Nathan Fugate, there were a great many persons throwing rocks at your petitioner, said Fugate being one of the number, several of the rocks hit him on the head and face, before he stabbed said Fugate, and he only stabbed him in necessary self defence. Wherefore he prays your Excellency to remit said fine and imprisonment

Jacob Neace.

We the undersigned join in the above petitioen, and recommend Jacab Neace as a fit subject of the Executive clemency.

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