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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-0001-020-0321 MG18-3 to MG18-4

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioners Citizens and long residents of Campbell & Kenton Counties would respectfully represent to your Excellency

That Joseph Temple for nearly a quarter of a century a resident of said Counties has been found by the verdict of a jury in Kenton County guilty of perjury & Sentenced to onetwo years confinement in the penitentiary

Your petitioners state that Joseph Temple is an Old man now in the evening of his life that for more than twenty years he has resided in this community & has born the reputation of an useful industrus & respected Citizen, that while your petitioners do not impugn the integrity or the intelligence of the jury yet that they Can but believe that the sentance was "hasty & unjust, At all evnts the previous unimpeached correctness of the Character of this unfortunate man pleaes strongly & eloquently for leniency at the hands of the Executive & we his neighbors & fellow Citizens in whose midst the better remnant of his life is to be passed earnestly urge & request your excellency to pardon him

James Taylor Robert Todd John H Barlow James E Perry R. H. Caldwell James. R. Morin Samuel Morlidge B F Caldwell Saml Winston

I have Known Mr Temple for many years he once resided on my fathers Land I have had dealings with him for Large amounts on my books & papers show I have always found him correct & honest & besides a very liberal man James Taylor

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