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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-0001-020-2247 MG24-403

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 citizens would most Respectfuly Represent to your Excellency that John Powell was at the last June term of the Jackson Circuit Court Sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of two years (charged with steeling a hog) the Testimoney only scircumstantially some evidence to the favor 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 Powell that you will only confirm the opinion of a large Majority of the citizens of said county in his innocense as there was much fulling on the part of the commonwealths witneses manifested on the trial

Names Reuben Munday Ransom C Powell Luther McCollum John Moore Imanuel Rogers Daniel Bright W. P. Rogers C. S. W. Rogers Wm Coalmon Names John W Frances Joseph. L. Francis J W. Cumper Samuel Carter William Gillen J N Burton John Burton Daniel Dewitt Saml Tichheimer John Gillen

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E A Cornelison Eli Nichols James Stinett Wellton Davies George Webb Mat Prater Will Runcet Charles Brown John Hall G. M turner R. G. Ballard Ham Clift Felix J. Rogers W. R. Ballard John Ballard P. E. laws J Vanderpool W. B. Hunter B F Rose M V Owins Allen A Hunter Wm D Clements John Hunter Jr Wm J Alcorn John T. Hunter John Hunter Sr Gabbert Johnston teenan tanpson J. A. Jackson