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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-0001-020-2243 MG24-398 to MG24-399

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To the honerable Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky petition --

the undersigned petitioners respectfully state, to your Honour, that, Mr James Lackey formerly a citizen of Lexington, is now undergoing confinement and labour in the Penetentiary of Kentucky; they state farther that Said Lackey is very Young, and of pardoned, and restored to his friends, would make a usefull citizen -- they think him a fit and proper subject, for executive clemency, they therefore earnestly and respectfully ask your Honour to grant, to said Lackey, a pardon and Your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray your Honours health and hapiness --

John McCoy

B F Graves Jno C Hansbro Frank Waters Frank.G. Flanagan E. D. Burke John C. Breckinridge Geo W Hunt W. L Thwaits R J Breckinridge Jr John. M. Babb Augustus Babb. Dennis, Mulligan Geo C Morris Thomas G, Randall Jno H Morgan John B Pryor Jr Thos Bradley Chas Curry C. C. Morgan Joseph G Boswell E R Hoagland Geo A Shely John W Bittenger J. M. Graves

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Lackeys case Peny -- Franklin