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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-0001-020-2319 MG25-77 to MG25-78

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To His Excellency B Magoffin Govr of Ky

The undersigned citizens of Union County Respectfully ask your Excellency to pardon Vincent Shields now confined in the Penitentiary of this state under sentence of the Union Equity & Criminal Court

Mr Shields is an old man and we are informed is in feeble health; and has lost the sight of one Eye since his Confinement And has a large and helpless family of young children dependent on him for a support & Education We trust it will meet with your views of Executive Clemency to Pardon him

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