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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-0001-020-2263 MG25-3 to MG25-4

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To the Hon Beriah Magoffin, Governor of Kentucky,

The undersigned respectfully represent, that a year or more ago, Henry C. Helvenstive was convicted in the Mason Circuit Court, of the offense of having either passed counterfeit money, or of having it in his possession with the intention of passing the same, and sentenced to the penitentiary for five years,

Before his sentence he made a full confession, and there is a strong reason to believe that he is not a hardened man, but had been operated upon by men of stronger minds, and were families with crime, and had been led into the offence for which he was punished more as a dupe, than a willing participant in crime, He has given valuable information to the offices of law, in regard to the criminal conduct of the men who used him to screen their own designs, and having already served a year of his term, we respectfully ask that he may now be pardoned,

He has a wife and several children who are almost destitute, His wife is feeble, and with all her exertion is unable to make even a scanty support for the family,, For her sake, upon where the punishment falls most heavily, we earnestly request that the balance of his term may be remitted, Very respectfully,

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