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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-0001-020-2244 MG24-400

Jackson County, Kentucky Jackson County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin

We the underassigned S citizens would most Respectfully Represent to your Excellency that John Powell was at the last June term of the Jackson Circuit Court sentenced to the penitentary for the term of two years; charged with steeling a hog/ the Testimony only scircomstancialy, some evidence to the farvor of Powell/ we will say to you that Powell has left a large family without any means to surport on And we are of the opinion that if you will parden said Powell that you will only conferm the opinion of a large majority of the citizens of Said county in his inocense as there was much feling on the part of the commonwealths witnesses manifested on the trial

Names Wm Willis John Willis Harrison James Rice Alexander Prewitt thomas Marten Names John Mage Daniel Cayel Madison lamb Thoas Lamb John Kidwell Hugh Bennett

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thomas Clift C M Clift Reubus Harris James H Terrell Thos C Hazlewood James harris Abraham Hicks Washington Isbell Nathan Oliver Richard Parker James Parker James Andrews P. T. gill James fits John Alexander J. C. Burgess Berry Shay Robt Wright C. Tenny William C Bush T. F. Coalmon John Coalmon M. B. Duncan L. J. Coalmon John Moris abraham moris andrew abner andison Miller henry Morris James Clark Benjamin Cherant Elisha Carpenter George Mitt