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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-0001-020-1938 MG23-379 to MG23-380

Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky 1862-05-05 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Maysville, Ky May 5 1862, My dear Governor,

Judge Whitaker will present you with an application from the jury, the witnesses and some of the citizens in favor of the pardon of David Douglass, convicted at the present term of the Mason Circuit Court of manslaughter. Douglass was a weak, inoffensive man when sober, and almost entirely sensless when drunk, The act for which he was convicted was committed under the influence of deep intoxication, and considering all the circumstances, I think his case one for the interposition of executive clemency; I, therefore, unite with the jury and other citizens in asking that he may be pardoned,

Very respectfully, R H Stanton Atty for Comwlth

Hon B. Magoffin, Governor &c,