<title type="main">H. A. Phelps et al. to Beriah Magoffin

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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-0001-020-0861 MG19-353 to MG19-354

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The undersigned respectfully represent, that at the present term of the Christian Circuit Court, George Long a free man of Color, was found guilty upon the trial of an Indictment for assaulting a white man and fined the sum of One hundred dollars, and imprisonment three months That said boy has been raised in Hopkinsville and has always sustained a good character, and no charge was ever brought against him prior to this -- That he has a wife & three children dependant upon his daily labor-

From said Boy's character heretofore, and the character of the testimony against him, We recommend him to Executive clemency, and humbly petition your Excellency to release said imprisonment, and remit such portion of said fine as you have the power to do March 21st 1861 --

H. A. Phelps E. M. Buckner Geo O Thompson S. N. Woldredge J. K. Gant Phelps. Sasseen Jno P Ritter V, W, Crabb John McGowan Tho. M. Buck Jack.H. Lewis A D Rodgers M M Duncan John Feland H. C. Petrie G H Lawson S, M, Bernard E. H Hopper E G Callis Geo. Poindexter D. S. Hays Newton Allen H, L, Scott John, W, Moore J. M. Spurgin W M Campbell D Bronaugh Jo McCarroll A, W, Copeland D M Claggett J W Cardwell H B Gano Wm H Moore H. H. Coleman D. J. Gish

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A. C. Creshener Jas A Twyman Jno. B. Gowen J H Caldwell John G Nathan Jas M Shackelford Jno. A. Twyman, W. B. Jones T L Starling R S Boulware Will T. Buckner Hamden Newman H S Bodley J Dabney George Poindexter Jr John Buckner Ben H Bristow C T Lewis B E Randolph Geo. M. Fox James S. Phelps Wm Skerritt E. Gooch R J Davis C. T. Ratcliffe Wm D Gentry L Bell W. H. Scott R. T. Petree J S Fisher Jno. W. Breathitt Jno. B. Knight Tho S. Bryan T G. Henry James F. Buckner Walter Evans

Remitted B M

Christain Cirt Ct Geo Long Fine $200 & Imprisonment 3 mos IsdMch 27. 1861