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Petition

Wiliam H. Turner to James F. Robinson

1862-11-11

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Date of Creation: November 11, 1862
Document Genre: Petition
Repository: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection: Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863
Box / Folder: R3-192 to R3-193
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-029-0124
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FTP Identifier: 32211326

Mentioned in this document

People: Keenon, Adam Calderwood; Hensley, Alfred; Magoffin, Beriah; Phythian, Charles E.; Clarke, Charles Julian; Taylor, Colby H; Meriwether, David R.; Bowman, E. P.; Taylor, Edmund Haynes, Sr.; Theobald, Edwin Samuel; Estep, Francis A.; Gwin, George W.; Miller, George W.; Owen, Grandison W.; Miller, H. R.; Clark, Henry; Richardson, James A.; Robinson, James Fisher; Harlan, James, Jr.; Page, James R.; Tate, James W.; Page, John Clifford; Phythian, John L.; Graham, John R.; Rupe, John W.; Russell, John W.; Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate; Athey, Robert Armstrong; Taylor, Robert Belt; Blackburn, Robert W.; Morris, S. D.; Page, Thomas Scudder; Franklin, Walter R.; Gaines, William A.; Cox, William E.; Sneed, William H.; Turner, William H.
Places: Frankfort, Kentucky; Franklin County, Kentucky; Kentucky
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Frankfort Police Court
Dates: 1862-08; 1862-11-11; 1862-11-11; 1862-11-11

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Wiliam H. Turner to James F. Robinson, 1862-11-11, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0124 (February 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency James F Robinson
Govenror of Kentucky

Your petitioner William Turner, a free Man of Color, would respectfully represent to your Excellency that on the [...] day of August, 1862, he was tryed in the Police Court for the City of Frankfort on a charge of assault and battery on the person of one Henry Clark a free Man of collor. His Honor Judge Graham upon the hearing of the proof in the case assessed a fine of fifty dollars against your petitioner.

Your petitioner would further represent that previous to and since the commission of the said offense he has conducted himself in a peaceable & orderly manner, & now respectfully asks that your Excellency will Exercise Executive Clemency towards him, & remit So Much of said fine as is not due & coming to the officers, —

Your petitioner would further represent that said fine has been respited for twelve months by his Excellency

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Governor Magoffin, late Governor of Ky with a promise that he would remit it entirely in due time, which "Respite" is hereby exhibited to your Excellency —

Your Petitioner would further represent that his character has been and now is that of an honest and law abiding ~~citizen~~ inhabitant of Frankfort — He asks a remittal of this fine ^at the time^ out of a sense of Gratitutde to the gentlemen who went on his hand —

~~W. H. Turner~~

Willaim Turner states that he beleives the statements contained in the foregoing petition are true

W^m, H, Turner

Sworn to before me November 11^th 1862

W Franklin Examiner
Franklin Co

We ^the^ undersigned beleive the facts stated in the foregoing petition are true and that William Turner's ~~is an object~~ ^case is one^ for the exercise of your Excellency's clemency.

A. C. Keenon
W A. Gaines
J A Richardson
W H Sneed Co atto
~~J H~~J. Harlan

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Frankfort Po. Ct.

Pettn granted fine remitted
11 Nov. 62
J F Robinson

$50. } Assault
Iss^dNov 11. 1862