Petition

Robert Burke et al. to James F. Robinson

Place of Creation
Trigg 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
R3-413 to R3-413A
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0280
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FTP Identifier
32211482

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Dates
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1863-03-13
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Citation

Robert Burke 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-0001-029-0280 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Gov Jas. F. Robertson

We the undersigned, citizens of Trigg County, Kentucky, would state that at the last February term of the Trigg Circuit Court J. H. Wilkinson had a judgement rendered against him of $5000 for shooting at one John S. Spiceland. The circumstances are about these. Mr Spiceland is a young man about 27 years old weighs 220 or 30 pounds, and very stout. Mr Wilkinson is a feeble man compared with the other, 46 or 8 years old, and a remarkably peaceable man. M. Spiceland had charge of a newspaper in this place, and about 3 years agoabaused said Wilkinson in such a manner that he deemed that his reputation at least required something of a retaliation. Wilkinson therefore made a publication in the Hopkinsville paper reflecting on Spiceland. Spiceland met Wilkinson a short time thereafter in a room and made a violent assault on him with a club, wounding him considerably, and saverly. Wilkinson saw him passing an hour or so afterwards and shot at him with a pistol without striking him. These are the facts, and the Comth Atty seeing that it would be a hardship for Wilkinson to pay the fine under the circumstances has remitted his share of the fine and we ask your Excellency to remit the Comth partion.

Robt. Burke
Jno, W, Ritchie
Thomas. H. Grinter
J H Miller
Jno W Chappell
J. B. Aaken
J W Gaines
M. A. Smith
Tho B Jefferson
H W Wayland
J. A. Hopper
W Z Y Smith
A. M. Searcey

J. H. Wilkinson
T, A, Wall
Mat McKinney
S F Wooten
B J Wall
J. S. Gardner
Edw. G. Ragon
Jno H Ragon
R D Baker
J M Wilkinson
Thos T. Watson
D M Ragon
James Mitchell

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A, H, Poston
J L Miller
E. A. Slaughter
E. Vinson, Jr
G. Willis, Lindsay
W, S, Humphries
Wayman Wallis
J. B. Hopson
T J Wilgus
D, W, Stewart
J. H. Marquess
A J. Humphries
Wm. J. McCaughan
Tho, C, Dabney
Zeb Thompson
A B Dyer

J. W. Humphries
W. H. Humphries
S. S. Hopson
Joel McKinney
B. Baker
F w Lester
J. E. Baker
N. G. Wilford
John F Stewart
J. T. Meyrs
C N M'claughan
A. Wimberly
Milton Northington

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[Page 4] Trigg Cir Ct

Fine Remitted
J F Robinson

$50 } Mis —
J. H. Wilkinson
Iss Mar 13. 1863