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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-0001-020-2283 MG25-29

Mason County, Kentucky Mason County, Kentucky Petition English 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 Excelency Bariah Magoffin Govener of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned members of the Mason Bar respectfully solicit you to pardon David Douglass convicted of manslaughter at the present April term of the Mason Circuit Court They concur with the jury by whom he was tried: that his cause (as one for the fit exercise of Executive clemency. and hope you will pardon him and restore him to his family.

Emery Whitaker. Geo W Tulser Will P. Coons Jno M Duke Jr Jno R. Clarke W P Conwells W.. S.. Frank J G Hickman Jno D Taylor H. P Whitaker. Tho B Stevenson H Taylor W H Savage Wm B Parker Jailor W. W. Baldwin Sheff M. C