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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-0001-020-0769 MG19-197 to MG19-198

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To his Excellency the Govnor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky-

The undersigned members of the Jury who served upon the trial of Preston Ashby who was sentenced to the Pentetentiary for Ten years from the Jefferson Circuit Court.

Do respectfully pray his pardon and we his friends and accquantances do also join in the petition believing that the punishment already inflicted will make him in future a better man. He is an industrious man a good carpenter and his family poor & needy -- and his services necessary to them support

first 12 Names of the Jury Benj B. Hinkle Juror N. B. Connell J. E. Shaw W R Hydes John Doran W. L Weller G. H. Rice Edw Wilder Chs.. W. Smith Wm C. Kennedy C F Bennett

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Jefferson Cir. Ct Issue pardon B. Magoffin 10 yrs. Penty Presly Ashby Manslaughter IssdMar. 1. 1861