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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-0001-020-2166 MG24-262 to MG24-263

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To His Excellency the Governor of the state of Kentucky

We whose names are hereto subscribed would most respectfully represent to your Excellency that about May 1862, William Henry was convicted in the courts of Louisville Ky, and sentenced to five years imprisonmnet in the Penitentiary at Frankfort. Your petitioners are impressed with the firm conviction that said William Henry, a youth of only eighteen years, was led from the paths of rectitude and propriety by evil associations, and is not naturally a bad young man. He was deprived of the advise and counsil of a parent at that time when parental control is most efficacious, by the death of his father, and has now a mother surviving. She has two sons in the Union army; and is dependent, alone, for his support, upon her own personal efforts.

Your petitioners would most respectfully suggest whether the law

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in the conviction and imprisonment of William Henry for two years, has not been fully vindicated. They entertain a most confident hope that William Henry will return to an affectionate, ^mother^ and to the community as a useful member, having learned a lesson by which he will always profit.

We suggest that his case is one which addresses itself to your Excellency. is one entitled to Executive clemency, and we would feel highly gratified, could your Excellency deem it consistent with your official duty: to grant William Henry an unconditional pardon and restore him to his mother & friends at home, and your petitioners will ever pray &c

J M Melbourne

Jem G Cooper Capt U S. Rect Officer & Dept Prov Mar 1st Dist Mo, E H Huff 1st Lt 11th Cav Mo Vols Albert Smith pilot on lor Missip F. L Weber Capt 2d Inf Charles Eichler Capt 2d Inf Mo. S. G. Cato. Atty at Law. & Ex Judge of U.S Courts of Kansas Territory. Geo Wilson Ex Judge of Probate in Kansas

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Judge Aglett Buckner of St Louis will send a letter.

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Wm Henry Refused Jefferson Cir Ct