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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-0001-020-2326 MG25-87 to MG25-88

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To his Excellency B Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that they have been informed that J H Powell recently a citizen of the city of Memphis, state of Tennessee has been sent to the Penitentiary of the state of Kentucky from McCracken Co, for one year on a charge of larceny. Your petitioners state that they have been informed that said Powell's mind was impaired before he let the state of Tennessee on a visit to Kentucky in the summer of 1860, and that fact could have been easily established could the trial if the trial had been when the witnesses could have been obtained The petitioners, some of them from their own knowledge of Mr Powell, and others from information upon which they rely, believe that said Powell was an honest correct and industrious citizen up to the time where he visited Ky in the past summer. They therefore pray your Excellency to exercise your clemency in restoring said Powell to his distressed family, -- & petitioners

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will ever pray &c.

James. H. Swan Depty. Us, Marshall John, L, Webb C, W, Mallory R. Sigler J, Halstead W R McClelland J C Ward F A Park. S B Newell Wm W Coleman Ben Harlan Theodore Anderson S. C. Snyder M. D. J H Atkinson A. C. Mallory J. H. Robb H L Caldwell -- Jno York J. B Morrison Francis Foster John Stinnett A. P. Morrill R. Savage D. L. Sullivan W E Rogers John L Morgan Henry Clark of Frankfort Ky Jno B. Ball Herman F Hull T. W. Mead Quincy Hager J Ogden Druggist James Tuft D H McClure R M Spicer Geo. C. Biles R. L. Clark Adam Ehrgate F Meyer Job Bledsoe R. D. Ward J A McFlaherty Jno. D. Woodard W. S. W. Montgomery Caff. W Norey R. Whitney Stble G J Gordon M. C. Cayce R. E. Cayce A C Walker D Frank C Van Camper John F Sale

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J P. Caruthers M. C Galloway Ed W Manfred P H Hammarskold R. M. Giles James Rose S. V. Dixon A K Donbrow Chas. Scott Joseph Barbarie L. Ketchum John A Bowen E G Davidson C W Mosby J. L. Reister Henry Kirkland Geo, Dixon Wm H. Stovall E. M. Yeager Jas B Thornton