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Petition

J. M. Lancaster et al. to James F. Robinson

1863-02-14

Document details

Date of Creation: February 14, 1863
Place of Creation: Frankfort, 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: R3-308 to R3-309
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-029-0204
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FTP Identifier: 32211406

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Dates: 1857-08; 1867-08-29; 1863-02-14

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J. M. Lancaster et al. to James F. Robinson, 1863-02-14, 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-0001-029-0204 (November 12, 2026).

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To his Excellency James F Robinson
Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned, Petitioners to your Excellency, respectfully represent that Stephen Forley was at the August Term 1857. of the Fayette Court, tried and convicted, on circumstantial evidence, of enticing away and running off negroes from their owners in Fayette County. Ky.

His term of punishment was ten years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, which will expire August 29^th 1867. He has already suffered imprisonment for the peroiod of nearly five and a half years, during which time he has conducted himself in a becoming manner.

He is now in bad health and further imprisonment will undoubtedly imperil his life.

We therefore, humbly petition and beg for the Executive clemency in his behalf, that he be discharged from the Penitentiary.

Frankfort. February 14^th 1863.

J. M. Lancaster.
Chas OHara
Nelson Alley
P. Joyce

Jas S Sneed
H. Hardee
Ja^s P. O'Hara

[Page 2] L. Tobin
Pat: U. Major
James Shannon

I have been informed the Petitioner is in very bad health.
Geo A Robertson
D, M, Bowers

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Pettn for pardon of Stephen Forley

No good ground for Pardon