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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-0001-020-2350 MG25-124 to MG25-125

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Govenor of Kentucky

We the undersigned citizens of Caldwell county and Jurors who set upon the trial of the commonwealth against John Dunn on a charge of disturbing religious worship and of which offense he was found Guilty and fined the sum of Dollarsand five days imprisonment Humbly Petition your Excelency to remit that portion of the Judgement which requires saidDunntobeimprisonedwe state that said Dunn is a young man of good character and that theoffence of which he was convicted was coerced by intemperance at the time a fault which he has now discarded, he has taken an appeal from said Judgement in order to obtain the Executive aid to save him and his friends who are reputable from the mortification of confinement in Jail

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hoping that your Excellency will relieve this youth from the penalty of Jail confinement we are msot respectfully Yours&c

B. J Mason A. Jurer J, P, Roscoe Jurymon in the case Dixon Mcgrigor T. W. Pickering M S Hopson Phil Guier M P Stephens Z. C. Stevens Elijah Stevens H, W, Cooksey E. M. Stevens W, H, McCaslin J R Hewlett William Nicholes. Ja H. LeechJ. P. C. C W S Talbott P. J T. P. E. H. David E Baker Thos B Copeland David Leech Mark Scott J M Morse C S Morse B. D. Terry W. G. C. Morse W. B. Brelsford Wm N Gaither J. M. Pool John I Finn Joseph Swatzell Martin Jackson F. M. Moore C. W. Rucker D. C. Mitchusson Sr Juror D C Mitchesson Jr W E Mitchesson D. C.lk.

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J R Fraless. F. W. Dodds D. Shff Jesse Cooksey E R Farrow John M, Higgins D. M. Kevil M, L, Edward G R Glass Shelton Lamb G F Imperson Robert Miller Jesse Stevens S. C. C J P McGoodwin J C Barnes D C. E. P. Watkins James E. Kevil Jas A Johnson W H Kevil H. M Witherspoon R. H. Lander T B McGoodwin J W Cluke J A Newton Jas H.. Hayes T A Lowey. J. P. C C E. A. Stone J.. M Erwin W. W. Pemberton J H N. McCaslin R J McCashin P. P. Chambers D Stevens