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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-0001-020-1119 MG20-231

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To his Execelency B. Magoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

The undersigned would respectfully beg of you to pardon W. M. Williams out of the Penitentiary he was lately sent up from Marshall County charged with Forgery, we would represent to your honour that he has a wife and three small children who were entirely dependent upon his labour for support, the children are only from one to five years old the mother is sickly and unable to labour for the support of her children, The County authorities talk of binding outt the children, which so distresses the Mother that Humanity would propt us to ask for the release of the Father May 1st 1861.

E. C. Spiceland R. T. Guier R L Son T S Son A C thorpe R E James Jessee Bell John Martin P. W. Gardner R. P. Samford Wm F, Hamilton B, A, Gardner O Waldrold J J Swindell J. L. McAtee W T Swindell F. P. Eggner James H Short M. A. Eggnor E. A Morris J M Morris J G Morris thomas collins

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James Warren W E Warren John W Warren Thomas V Warren W. C. Booker J S Cuthey William hopkins W C Tynes Henry Tynes David Crass Joel Moss J H Walker F M Crass S. T. Henderson Lewis Henderson Joshua Crass J. C. Smith Armstrong, Collans R. W. Hendenerson J. W. Henderson James H Reuben William Henderson Joel Henderson W J Foster William Lenzy Izacc Henderson T T Lettens William Abberson W. J. cathey J, H, Barnett J Bishop T L Goheen Jr R L Malone B W Fulcker W E Crass J R Jennings Samuel Crass S. H. Mathes S. A. Jones W, H, Utley J M Brooks D. W. Johnson Irwin Sanders James Williams C N Williams W H H Williams S M Ragsdale J M Ragsdale J.. S.. Wolfe J Pulliam Joseph. R. Williams H M Frizell T C Travis Isaac Frizzell