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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-0001-020-1040 MG20-123 to MG20-124

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Fleming Circuit Sct.

To. Hon Beriah Maggoffin Govenor of the commonwealth of Kentucky. the undersigned would represent and request, That at the last term (March 1861) of the Fleming circuit court one Patrick Oyns was found guilty of Larceny, by a jury of Fleming county and sentenced to one year in the state Penitentiary. now the proof against the prisoner was that he was drunk and that when drunk he knew nothing that he took the coat (the property stolen) at night from a gathering of a church at a supper. the only proof of his guilt was his own confession, and he said at at the same time, that "he knew he would have to sleep out that night and he wanted it to keep him warm intending to return it in the morning, although the proof was sufficient for a legal conviction, yet we think him a proper subject for executive Clemency

His past conduct in the county for five or six years has been good, and we now request your Honor that he will grant him pardon,

James P Harbeson

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Wm H. Cord J. M. Bowman Seth Botts L. M. Cox Charles E Johnson Jos M, Alexander Ben Botts Jas. W. Mullay Jos Dudley Roly S. Porter Elbridge Bell John A Allen John N. Proctor W. L. Dudley Jas O Jackson Elihu Price Wm S Botts Thos. L. Given. W. G. Fleming L. B. Cox E. Thomas J. B. Pearce Thos. D. Andrew John I Moore E A. Lee Julius Herrick George Hammer Lewis F Bright M. M. Teafar

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L. W. Andrews C H Ashton J P Hunt Saml Maguire Eli. Williams John A Matts James Cochran Isaiah Dent H W Hinton John R Carpenter Isaac Darnall Chas G Nute D S. McGavic G, F, Barnes H C Browning James Jas A. Harris Patrick OSullivan J B Jackson Edd Callahan William Garner J. J. Andrews W. S. Wolfe George W Reeves J C Owsley Robb. B. Lee J. E. Sousley S. W. Howe M L Howe T, E, Burns A. I Stevens C. H. Burns J. S. Bayless

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Issue pardon B, M

Fleming Cir. Ct Patk Oyns Larceny

IssdMay 2d 1861 1 yr. Penty