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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-0001-020-1197 MG21-32 to MG21-33

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To his Excellency the Governor of Ky

The undersigned the Jury who tried Thomas Cheshire under an Indictment against him and others for maliciously Stabing Jno W Hendricks (at the present term of the Washington Circuit Court State to your Excellency that we felt constrained under the Law to find sd Cheser guilty of being present aiding and assisting in the wounding of Hendricks in Sudden heat and passion and fixed his fine at fifty dollars and six months imprisonment in the County Jail We would further state that the case of Chesier is one in which it would be proper for the exercise of Executive Clemency wherefore we respectfully ask that you Remit the imprisonment and the fine so far as you can

D B Hughes Jas. Edelen E B. Mills Thos Colter The. B Spalding R Y McElroy Stilh Thompson Arthur McKenna Patrick Sydelane Thos, J, Montgomery John. T. Barker H P Rabown } Jurors

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Judge, Andrew, J, James Frankfort Ky

Remitted B. M

IssdJune 24