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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-0001-020-0410 MG18-138

Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky Mount Sterling, Montgomery County, Kentucky 1861-01-19 Correspondence 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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Mt sterling Ky Jany 19. 1861. To the Governor of Kentucky,

Dear sir you will remember on the 16 Inst I. presented, a petition for the pardon of Stephen Hensley (who is in the penitentiary for two years). for false swearing) and asked you to Suspend any action on the petition untill I sent you a copy of the record, that you might see the whole case, that Record I now herewith send you: You can see How readily an illiterate ignorant man might have been inocently mistaken; that he was so his conduct before the Justice shows.

This mans family stand in great need of his services & If consistent with your Judgment of propriety I hope you will pardon him & send him home to his family.

The public interest cannot suffer I think by his release

Your obt. swvt Tho. F. Hazelrigg

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His Excellency Governor of Ky Frankfort