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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-0001-020-2267 MG25-9 to MG25-10

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To His Excellency C S. Morehead, Governor of the Com'th of Kentucky

Your Petitioners respectfully represent to Your Ex'cy that Chas H Tomlin was at the Nov. Term of the Scott circuit court tried on an indictment for Manslaughter and found guilty and sentanced by the court to confinement and hard labor in the Peneientiary for six years -- And that your petitioners are many of them acquainted personally and others by reputation with the said Tomlin and they represent unto Your Ex'cy that he is a poor, uneducated, and feeble man, with a wife and two ^young^ children who were dependant wholely upon him for their support and who are now penniless, and maintained by his relative who are their selves quite poor -- and illy able to provide for their own families, They say that the man killed by Tomlin is Thos. Estes was the brother in law of Tomlin and a violent hasty man and that the quarrell no occured in the night time, and at a retired house at Estes own house, in the midst of his own family & friends, that it was impossible for Tomlin to prove his innocence -- and entirely exculpate himself -- Though from the fact that Estes was a violent and hasty man and was more over drunk at the time that Thomlin gave him the

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shot from the effects of which he died, and from Tomlins own statement, which We beleived -- We are of the opinion that Thos H. Tomlin was but little to blame -- We further represent that said Tomlin is a consumptive and is now in ill health from a disease of the lungs -- and can not long survive in the situation in which he now is -- that he has been compelled to be continually under the treatment of the physician ever since he has been confined in the penetintiary -- Wherefore in as much as his days are certain to be but few: and in as much as his crime was far from a foul one -- was convicted in the heat of passion by a man who was at the time a consumptive and dyspeptive and he has paid already heavily for his transgression We pray your Ex'cy to pardon him to restore him to his family, and kindred, while yet he lives! as his further confinement in the penetentiary could possibly work no good to the state or to society -- and even his release could but be only a gratifications to the feelings of his wife and little ones -- for his days for labor have passed -- Respectfully your obedient servants -- Tomlin lived in Franklin

Names Moses Haydon Reuben M Wallaces Braton D Gay Jno R. Gay Harvey Seath Names F. T Haydon J. Daugherty Johnathan Knight Elza Granville

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B. S Arnold J W French C Cyrus Calvert Egber A Arnold Joseph Wiley Ambrose McDonald Preston Hamptin W. E Arnold Samuel Woodruff P. J Settle C. M. Christopher Andrew Webster R T Calson James W Sebree Elias M, Williams John. T. Graves Rob. A Thomson R. W. Leatherston Edward green Thos Dougherty J. Taylor Graham W R Webster W R Graham John Dalph Thomas Haydon James Wallace E F Bacon Jno J. Long James Wise W Wise William Morris Benjamin Scott W. C. Scott Benjamin Long E t Saville J. A Long T. H. Stevenson L F Noel F F Wood A Sneling Lewis P. Christopher A W Taylor Ben. F. Graham William Cristopher George Perin John Arnold B M Long A. W. Cox Francis Woirhage Gary Tracy William Lillis C D Morris W. J. Gravett George S granvitt H, B, James Adam Cowhorn John Baxter A J Henry A W Tackett Isaac Paul

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John hole toamas hicks Thomas Hals Jr Willis Smith Warren Panker Epsy Green Sherril Cole Spencer Davinson Samuel henry Jacob hunts Reuben B,, Sebree Thomas Church William washer Charles Williams J P. Payne Benj F Spirall John. P. Reading A W Vallandingham W, S, Dehoney James F. Dryden W H Greenup E. A. W. Roberts Ben Luckett E. H. Tole Peter Jett Jno A Crittenden Mason James Chas. H. Tomlins Petition To the Governor

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J W Satterwhite Birds Sanford Goins Geo. B. Vallandingham T. F. Fightmaster Thomas Fitemaster Spencer R Davidson B. P. Duvall George W Sebree Enol Ramsey Richard W James