Petition

William Lacefield et al. to James F. Robinson

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
R4-284
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0491
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FTP Identifier
32211693

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Dates
1863-07
1863-07-24
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William Lacefield 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-0001-029-0491 (November 13, 2026).

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To his excellency the governor of Ky. At the July Term of the Anderson Circuit Court held in 1863, your petitioner Henry Gee was fined the sum of fifty dollars for the offense of selling liquor to a minor.

The circumstances are of such a mitigating nature that the following Jury who tried the case subscribes to this petition, On final hearing prays that your executive clemency may be extended towards him and that said fine be remitted. Your petitioner is a poor man.

Jury
William Lacefield
T Welim
Travis Brown
Saml Burge
J, Y, Perry
F, M, Miller
James McCall
Jackson Siers
Thomas Pilcher

I C. H. Fenwick certify that the above were all the Jury who tried the case except one on by consent ten tried it.

C. H. Fenwick C A C C

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Anderson Cir. Ct
$50 2 cases } Liquor to a minor & Tipling

The fines in each of the within cases remitted except the sum of Ten dollars & costs in each case

J F Robinson

Henry Gee
IssdJuly 24 1863.