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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-0001-020-1007 MG20-74 to MG20-75

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To his Excellency B. Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, We the undersigned citizens would respectfully state ^that^ philip Lee and William Wilson entered as the security of one Thomas Flinn in a bail bond for two hundred & fifty dollars for his appearance in the Bullitt circuit court on a charge for killing the facts were that the man killed had struck Flinn with a sling shot, and then Flinn in self defence killed him. Flinn went away & it is reported that he is dead. Flinn was an Irishman an itinerant worker & so was the man that was killed; none of the commonwealth witnesses attended when the recognisance was forfeited.

We respectfully ask you to remit the fine forfeiture of the recognisance on the part of Lee & Wilson

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as we think it just & proper, & clearly within those ^that^ class of cases in which Executive clemency ought to interpose

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W. P. Simmons Phill. Belm Wm McDaniel W. J. Colbow R. J. Meyler J. F. Eppihemer S. P. Myer E. W. Bottomley Geo. W. Swearingen J. W. Stallings J. B. English Isaac Wm Froman N. B. Moore R I Hogland William J Phelps W. C. Moore John R Chaddel

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Bullitt Cir. Ct Remitted B. M. $250 } Recog. P. Lee & Wm Wilson IssdApr 9. 1861