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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0204 R3-308 to R3-309

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1863-02-14 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency James F Robinson Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned, Petitioners to your Excellency, respectfully represent that Stephen Forley was at the August Term 1857. of the Fayette Court, tried and convicted, on circumstantial evidence, of enticing away and running off negroes from their owners in Fayette County. Ky.

His term of punishment was ten years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, which will expire August 29th 1867. He has already suffered imprisonment for the peroiod of nearly five and a half years, during which time he has conducted himself in a becoming manner.

He is now in bad health and further imprisonment will undoubtedly imperil his life.

We therefore, humbly petition and beg for the Executive clemency in his behalf, that he be discharged from the Penitentiary.

Frankfort. February 14th 1863.

J. M. Lancaster. Chas OHara Nelson Alley P. Joyce Jas S Sneed H. Hardee Jas P. O'Hara

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L. Tobin Pat: U. Major James Shannon

I have been informed the Petitioner is in very bad health. Geo A Robertson D, M, Bowers

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Pettn for pardon of Stephen Forley

No good ground for Pardon