G. H. Chism et al. to James F. Robinson
- Place of Creation
- Franklin 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
- R3-306
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-029-0202
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32211404
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Citation
G. H. Chism et al. to James F. Robinson, 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-0001-029-0202 (November 14, 2026).
His Eccelency the Govenor of the Common wealth of Kentucky your petitioner John C [Baker] maks known to your honor that at the en indictment of the Grand Jury for Retayiling Spiritous Liquors contrary to law with no intention of violating the law and have Paid all the Cost there on and ther is $20 yiet due to the commonwealth and [prays] your honer to remit the Same
We whos names are under Signed State to your Eccelency that we ar well acquainted with your Petitioner John C Baker and Know him to be a peacable Quiet and inefencive citizen and not dispesed to violate the Law in any respect and he is a pore man and has a wife and a family of helpless Children and is unable to pay the Same with out doing to them serious injury and hope your Simpathies will be Extended to the inosent and helpless and that you will remit the Same is the prayer of your petitioners
G. H. Chism
Lloyd Hackett
R E Collins
H B Innes
F Fray
H M Bedford
Jno, A, Crittendene
W F Parrent
P. [Swegns]
G D Ricken M D.
G F hackett
A, J, Duncan
Jas, M, Todd
[S] goins
J. H. Reddish
John pilcher
Franklin Cir Cit
vs
J C Baker
Franklin Cir Ct
vs
F C Baker
Tipling
$20 —
Remitted
74 42
250
324.42
500
74.42
2050
824.42
15.48
250
74 42
324.42
15 48
308.94