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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-0001-020-2317 MG25-73 to MG25-74

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To his Excelency B Magoffin Gov of Ky,

The undersigned Citizens of Union County would respectfully ask your Excelency to grant a pardon to Vincent Shirley now Confined in the Penitentiary of this State under sentence of the Union Circuit Court

Vincent Shirley is an old man has a family of Eight Children five or Six of whom are quite young and in very limited Circumstances requiring the Care and attention of some one.

We have also learned that he has become afflicted since his Confinement and in all probability will not live untill the expiration of his sentence

We therefore request that you grant him a pardon

James B Crutcher Sebert, Crutcher James W. Cissell Edward Willing William H Greer Marian Roylls Russell Prow Charle Boyll J E Curry J B Curry H. M. Curry Andrew Curry Basel Watson B S Kilgore Stephen Heady Ben Wallace Jacob Heady T S,, Haniff John,, E,, Pralee Edward Curry John Taylor Joel Blackwell