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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-0001-020-2320 MG25-79

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Gov. Magoffin

You can rely implicitly upon the Statements made to you by Mr. Shields and Mr. Downs, I have known them from my youth up. I was born in a few miles of Vincent Shields in the County of Spencer, we were school boys together The fFamily are entirely respectable and worthy

I feel a deep Sympathy for my old friend and earnestly recommend him to the Executive clemency. I have heard much of his case at the time of the occurence and since, and feel sure that it will justify your interference

Your &c Jno B Huston