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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-0001-020-0315 MG17-316

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To his Excellency B Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Hickman, Graves and Ballard Counties respectfully represent that at the last term of the Hickman Equity & Cirminal Court J W Long was tried and convicted for the crime of murder, your petitioners further State, that they have heard many facts that induce them to believe that there is a great probability that the crime committed by Said Long was Manslaughter, instead of murder. as found by the verdict of the Jury, and we believe that his Case presents Strong grounds for the interposition of Executive Clemency, Wherefore we Respectfully ask your Excellency to commute the punishment of Said Long to imprisonment for life or a term of years

W. T. Kemp John T. Moore A J M Caldwell Thos Hales W F B J C Akin Wm H,, Jordan J.. B.. Reilly Thos Easter S H Cullum Thomas Brown Isaac. Owens. Joseph H Stone J P Brigg B, w, milner C C Jackson C, L, King H C Watson G. w. Miller Willis White W. H, Smith W. R. O'bryant H J Hales B, C, Bugg J Reeves H,, W, Rouse Thomas. Rash. J M Stephens. A, Edwards

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George Winter J, W, Lumsden Simeon Woods W, A. Gossum S A Bone. Watkins Webb N M Barnes H L, Roberts B, F, Zack W, White Thos G Jordan sr P P Elliott R. M. Seay Alfred Harris James Bell. J. R. Haysdale William McSheen John, St John J D Brummal F: George N Turk Wm T, Todd A, J, Davis -- L. Penn P P. Cartwright D L Adams John Pinkerton John Davis J F Moore O, Turner J M Kemp J D Smith E A Horton T J Waryen W B Denis J W Mores John, Mc,Whorter B Mathews John W Stone Geo, W, Stone W A Ward Thomas Winn Jr F. M. Messen David Harper Edward Goode Babel Willingham M Douglas H, L Loving Thomas H Richardson R J Duellry C McKinney Bunch W. H. Watson G. B. Stovall A, Mathews William Killd W, C, Linn L. T Owen A Deam T H Byrd S Falley R M Roach W. L. Tally J F Glealson J J Mathew R M Shelton T E Puckett B F Crooks G, W, Sulevan Wm Hughs William Sulevan Robert Adams

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Petition of Wm Long

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