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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-0001-020-1249 MG21-114 to MG21-115

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To his excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Adair County and members of the ^County^ Court and bar of said County represent: that our fellow citizen R L Jones is bail for L D Jones in the Jefferson Circuit Court on an indictment for felony. that said L. D. Jones soon after his release from Jail on bail joined in the month of Jany last the army of the United States for the term of 5 years. The bail is three hundred dollars. the charge ^offering to^ passing Counterfeit money- the recognizance was forfeited at the May term of the Jefferson Circuit Court in 1861- R. L. Jones the bail is a worthy, honest, industrious, Mechanic living in Columbia who by perseverance and economy has raised a family and has now a small property consisting ^in the main^ in a house & lot in our town ^in which he resided^ Said R L Jones is an incurable invalid having the use of but one leg & goes on a crutch. he is in general bad health threatened with Consumption we therefore represent these facts to

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your excellency and pray you to interpose your executive Clemency and Save our friend and his family from incurable loss- by the enforcement of the collection of said bail We pray that your excellency remit the bail to the Commonwealth and as in duty bound we will ever pray &c

Z Wheat P, C, Hardin Junius Caldwell Sinclair Wheat Tho. E. Bramlette Jas Garrett S. G. Suddarth Wm E Russell Nat Gaither Jr

I concur heartily in the Statements in the foregoing petition- and from an intimate acquaintance with all the parties and a familiarity with the facts of the case, I do not hesitate to express the conviction that the case peculiarly requires the Executive interposition

Geo A Caldwell

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Remitted B. M

Jefferson Cir. Ct $300 } Recog R. L. Jones & N Gaither

IssdJuly 18 1861