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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-0001-020-2210 MG24-338 to MG24-339

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To His Excellency The Governor of Kentucky.

The undersigned citizens of McCracken & Livingston Counties who are well acquainted ^with^ Mr James Carroll now of Smithland Ky -- state to your Excellency that they have known Mr Carroll for several years last past, and that he is a young-man of industrious habits and estimated amongst all his neighbors & acquaintances as having a good character for honestly & integrity -- That the only change they ever heard against his good name is that upon which he has Just been tried & condemned in the Livingston Circuit Court, () that he was in company with three other individuals about the first of April last when two of them in his absence at the time shot & killed a hog the owner of which was to the grand jury unknown -- The charge was Larceny and he was convicted upon the testimony of a witness who stated he was an accomplice -- & some outside corroborating evidence. -- The whole case and his previous good character are such as to induce us to ask of your Excellency to pardon him.

Names Jos S Long A S Jonnes R. A. Thhmpson James Slayter A. B. Kindead A D Moss Names -- J C Cathier M Nolen Wm W. Herndon H. C. Murray S B Baulden James H S Port of Paducah George McKee

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William J Wilson James B Campbell Wm D Kary E H Habris Wm chuvoet A B Paley T S Lamdin Thos S H Stone Campbell J. E. George Ben P Robinson C. W. Hord James Long John B Sluft G Weimer T. W. Goodridge Daniel Kyle P C Smedly W A Bragg J A Stutts A. J Brily R H Reggin George. Johnson. L G Kavanaugh Wm E Augustus T J Atkins R Fell S Leonard L D Roberts T G Taylor E Wm M Frich Steven Eiter S. R. Friller J. M. D Huggins R. C. Smith R O Woolfolk U J E. Farrow Richard George Chas. C. Pursell. A. Craft P. Nimm S. Scott James Zanon W C Hicks Wm Brasher T. Hicks Wm Augustus J K Huey W D. Greer -- J. T Handlin J. F. Bowell John Dunn L. Newman

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Wm H. Godfrey James Ramage T. P. Caverhill P Shomaker Wm J Jennings A. A. Grayor R A Clopton J V Throop Wm Baker Wm Beverly J M Lackey Wm Scott W. V. Luch C Haynes J. L. Warmack G. B. Overstreet D L. Sanders J. W Webb J. C. Burns Thos Croker Wm Caverhill Jas A Hodge Jas W. Richards Alkhu K Spence J W Mills John ,S, Leffler T A Seepes James M. Patterson James M. Layman Jurors J L Hodge James Mckinny James ^his X mark^ Mckinny Thos Stephenson James Causer John Davis Thomas J Sald D. H. wells D F Drew L. R. Cheek H f Given W A G Robinson Anthony Zarcone F. D. Jarrett James Black P W East O" T" Williams James E Hamilton M. H. Carson Wm Shoemaker Randolph Noe William St John W. B. tucker Lewis Johnson P. M. St John C M Power George E Hammons John Wilson

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James Matheney R S Boyd Sheriff T. L. Lee T G Davis James W. Cade clerk ct ct. W A Lee Charles H,, Webb. James Stroud.

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