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Petition

Sarah Mullen to James F. Robinson

1863-06-02

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Date of Creation: June 2, 1863
Place of Creation: Carlisle, Nicholas 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: R4-206 to R4-205
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-029-0439
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FTP Identifier: 32211641

Mentioned in this document

People: Waugh, Archer S.; Ewing, Eli M.; Adair, George Washington; Mullen, Isaiah; Robinson, James Fisher; Seeley, John H.; Dallas, John M.; Clay, John W.; Tilton, Robert John Richard; Evans, Robert S.; Waugh, Samuel M.; Mullen, Sarah "Sally"; McIntyre, Thomas J.; Kennedy, Thomas; Mathers, Walker P.; Henry, William Tell
Places: Carlisle, Kentucky; Kentucky; Nicholas County, Kentucky
Organizations: Nicholas County Court
Dates: 1863-06-02; 1863-05-30; 1863-06-17

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Sarah Mullen to James F. Robinson, 1863-06-02, 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-0001-029-0439 (November 12, 2026).

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Carlisle Nicholas Co. Ky June 2^nd 1863
To His Excellency James F Robinson
Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Sarah Mullins would respectfully represent that she is a woman of color, that she is about 70 years of age, that she is poor and infirm that her son Isaiah Mullins who lives with her and (upon whom she is in a great measure dependent for support) was on the 30th of May 1863 convicted by a jury before a justice of the peace in Nicholas County of a breach of the peace and was fined $20 and 15 days imprisonment, that her said son is now in jail. that she has a small piece of land upon which her son Isaah has commenced raising a crop for her support, that has not and cannot procure the money to pay said $20 without great sacrifice and that she has no one to work said crop for her but her son who will have to stay in jail if said fine is not paid. She says she thinks the punishment was much too severe under all the circumstance considering her own poverty and that of her son. She therefore prays your excellency for a remission of said fine and imprisonment

Sarah Mullins

Isaiah Mullins
R. S. Evans (County Atty.)
Thomas Kennedy
Thos J. McIntyre
E. M. Ewing
R T R Tilton

[Page 2] G, W, Adair
W. L. Henry
John Clay

I would merely state that from what I am able to learn the above is a proper case for Executive clemency.

R. S. Evans, — County Atty.

Pettn Citizens of Nicholas to remit fine of Isaah Mullins free man of Color

Nicholas J. P. Ct

I can see no reason for remission
J F R
$20 & 15 days Impt

Upon information additional to the pettn. The imprisonment and fifteen dollars of the fine in this case remitted five dollars & cost to be paid

J F Robinson

Iss^dJune 17. 1863