Petition

Lucian Anderson et al. to James F. Robinson

1862-12-20

Date of Creation
December 20, 1862
Place of Creation
Graves County, Kentucky
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
R3-227
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0149
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32211351
People
Colley, Andrew J.
Robinson, James Fisher
Gardner, James
Wilkerson, John S.
Anderson, Lucian
Galloway, Moses W.
Murray, Patrick
Galloway, Samuel S.
Mayes, Thomas Hardeman
Eaker, William Yancy
Places
Graves County, Kentucky
Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Graves Circuit Court
Dates
1862-11
1862-12-20
1863-02-27
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Citation

Lucian Anderson et al. to James F. Robinson, 1862-12-20, 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-0001-029-0149 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency James F. Robinson Gov of Kentucky.

We the undersigned Citizen of Graves County Ky & some of the Jurors who tried the case of the Comlth of Ky. agst James Gardner tried at the late Novr term of the Graves Circuit Court 1862 beg leave to state that said Gardner was tried & fined Twenty five dollars & [...] for a breach of the peace charge to have been committed on one Patrick Murray — the facts of the case showed that both Gardner & Murray were drunk had always before the difficulty been friends, & have ever since then been on friendly terms that it was the liquor which caused the difficulty, that Gardner is & has always been a peeseeble man, that is very poor & has a large family to support that he is unable to pay the same but will be forese to go into jail unless the Executive interposes to relieve it from it. we therefore respectfully ask that said fine be released. Decr 20th 1862.

Lucian Anderson
Patrick, Murry
M' W' Galloway
S S Galloway
W. Yancy, Eaker
J S Wilkerson
T. H. Mayes
A. J. Colley

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Graves Cir. Ct.

Fine remitted except Ten dollars
J F Robinson

$25. } Breach of the Peace

Jas Gardner
IssdFeby 27. 1863