Dan McGrath to James F. Robinson
1862-11-12
- Date of Creation
- November 12, 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
- R3-195
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-029-0126
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32211328
Citation
Dan McGrath to James F. Robinson, 1862-11-12, 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-0001-029-0126 (November 12, 2026).
To His Excellency James F Robinson
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Your petitioner respectfully represents that he has been arrested and fined in the City Court ^of Lexington^ in the sum of Fifty Dollars and costs, for carrying a concealed deadly weapon.
Your petitioner further states that he is a member of the Home Guards at Winchester and did not feel safe without a weapon to defend himself against attacks from Southern men and sympathiser, and hence he carried a weapon, which was carried not with any intention of disreguarding the law but that he believed that the safety of his person demanded such a precaution Wherefore he prays to be discharged from his liability for said fine as far as in your power lies.
Sworn to before me this
Z. Gibbons. N. P.
The undersigned unites in the prayer of the Petitioner, believe the facts as stated are true, and the City Attorney for himself states ^he^ that has remitted all fees to which he is entitled in the above case.
Z. Gibbons City. Atty.
Speed S. Goodloe
City Judge