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Petition

F. G. Anthony to James F. Robinson

1863-01-06

Document details

Date of Creation: January 6, 1863
Place of Creation: Fayette 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: R3-282 to R3-283
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-029-0187
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FTP Identifier: 32211389

Mentioned in this document

People: Bodley, Charles Scott Todd; Anthony, Francis Granger; Watts, Garrett; Fishback, George Taylor; Robinson, James Fisher; Norton, John B.; Watts, John B.; Grimes, Sidney Smith; Carr, Thomas D.; Downey, William S.
Places: Fayette County, Kentucky; Kentucky
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Fayette Circuit Court
Dates: 1862-08; 1861; 1863-01-06; 1863-02-18

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F. G. Anthony to James F. Robinson, 1863-01-06, 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-0001-029-0187 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency
James F Robinson Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner F G Anthony states that at the August Term of the Fayette Circuit Court 1862 — Judgement was rendered against him for the sum of Six Hundred Dollars. The Judgement was ordered on the forfeiture of Two Bonds one of Five Hundred Dollars the other One Hundred Dollars Executed to the Commonwealth of Ky by Jno B Watts of Fayette Co and your petitioner as Surety. The complaint of the State against said Jno B Watts was for Persons going into his stable & playing cards, which was an every day occurrence in this place in peoples stables They could get into. Jno B Watts went south on legitimate business previous to the breaking out of the Rebellion — (The Bonds were given early in the winter of 1861.) And the civil law has been so paralized by the Military law it has been impossible to exercise justice in civil cases.. And he prays that you will remit the amount due to the Commonwealth as he is not able to stand the loss, and begs your Executive clemency in the case.

F G Anthony.

We the undersigned are Union men & know that what your petitioner has stated to be so, and further pray that you release him of as much of the above amount as lays in your power.

Fayette Co Ky. January 6^th 1863.

S S Grimes
Garrett Watts
Geo. T. Fishback

Chas S Bodley
Sheriff Fayett Co.
Jno B Norton C F C C
Thos D Carr D S of F C

I fully concur in the prayer of the foregoing

W. S. Downey
Co'm atty

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Fayette Cir. Ct
$600 } Recog
F. G. Anthony
Iss Feby 18. 1863

Fine remitted in this case
J F Robinson