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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-0001-020-2182 MG24-290 to MG24-291

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To Govnr Magoffin,

There is an enditement depending in the Union Circuit Court against Leonard Clemants Jr for the Murder of a Slave the property of Ben P Cissell

We believe that your excellency ought to pardon Said Clemants, because we think it was more the result of weakness of mind, than of Maliciousness, since Said occurance, his wife and only child have died and his Father has paid Mr Cissell fifteen sixteen hundred dollars for Said Slave.

We believe it will meet the approbation of the people of Union County, for you to grant said pardon.

W G Hughes

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Clements Case Peny --