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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-0001-020-2318 MG25-75 to MG25-76

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To his Excellency B Magoffin Govr of Ky

The undersigned Citizens of Union County would respectfully ask your Excellency to grant a Pardon to Vincent Shields now confined in the Penitentiary of the state under sentence of the Union Circuit Court

Vincent Shields 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 until the expiration of his sentence. --

We therefore request that you grant him a pardon

Names Jas W Wallace John..S.. Watson J C Wallace John Conroy Allen Wilson F,, M.. Hughes Benj W. Crake Wm. Cowin Sr Wm Cowin Jr Danl, A, Brooks John Quartermous Names H Duncan Jno Burger W. W. Gardner Jas Kerney Lackland J W Fennice Peter Casey John Wilson Ha M Davis T A. Buckham

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James Trigg J P Bohannan L. S. Berry R Ensel A S Churchill John W Riley B M Winston A C Sprague