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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-0001-020-1937 MG23-377 to MG23-378

Jefferson County, Kentucky Jefferson County, Kentucky 1862-05-12 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Michiel Farrel would respectfully state that he was tried in the Jefferson Circuit Court on an indictment for malicious stabing, & that the Jury recomended your petitioner to your Excellency's Clemency. See copy of the verdict,

Your petitioner states in all honesty that he had no malice when he stabed his adversary, that what he did he conceived to be his duty, & that he did it to save himself from great bodily harm.

Your petitioner has a wife & children & they are dependent sorely upon him for a surport, & he asks your Excellency to grant him a pardon

Michiel ^his X mark^ Farrel

We of the jury find the Defendant quilty as charged in the within indictment and say he shall be confined in the Jail or penetentiary for one year. But recommend him to Executive Clemency

John Gill, foreman

I hereby Certify that the above is a true Copy of the verdict in the Case of the Comwlth vs Michael Farrell. May 12 1862

Attest Jas P Chambers c J c c

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Jefferson Cir Ct Michael Farrell Malicious Stabbing 1 yr. Penty IPardon IssdMay 14. 1862