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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-0001-020-2219 MG24-349

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To his Excellency B Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Hickman Graves and Ballard Counties respectfully represent that at the last term of the Hickman Equity & Criminal Court J W Long was tried and convicted for the Crime of murder, Your petitioners further state that they have heard many facts that induce them to believe that there is a great probability that the crime committed by said Long was manslaughter instead of murder as found by the verdict of the Jury and we believe that his crim case presents strong grounds for the interposition of Executive clemency Wherefore we respectfully ask your excellency to commute the punishment of said Long to imprisonment for life or a term of years.

James Ervin T. J. Stewart H. H. Stewart Ed Molison Tho B Greem James Greem William Ervin J. H. House T. B. Johnson Patrick Carbery Wm R Vance C. C. Stewart G. L. Porter B. R Bocum John Purdy J. C Yantis Wm Davis J hom Keley Gilbert Thomas T. M Long Jr Wm M Lillard T Thayer J G Long G. W. Ward B C. Henshaw E. Taylor

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A. W. Cugbery W. Dacus John Fiske W. R Smith Elisha Hale E. G Buchanan T. E. Abbey Geo E K Sundy R H McMullen Thos L Penebaker A C Henry Long W, W, Wilkinson W. W. Gray W. A. Porter F. F. Foby Will P. James Thos P. Walter J W Doughty J H Williams Loyd Pickett J. Humphrey A Russell W S Jordan Wm E Sublett A L Justice W. M. Humphrey G A Bellamy W. W. Walker John Lees John J. Holmes H H Hilton L C A Inderstroth J Massy J. W. S. Pingle W. G. Layton Wm Tobbin Geo W Nelson Henry E Henshaw his X mark E Harrison