Petition

E. W. Hawkins 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
R4-432
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0591
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FTP Identifier
32211793
People
Hawkins, Ed. W., Sr.
Grismier, F. S.
Coy, George
Hawthorn, Jacob
Robinson, James Fisher
Bramlette, Thomas Elliott
Places
Campbell County, Kentucky
Newport, Kentucky
Organizations
Campbell Circuit Court
Commonwealth of Kentucky
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Citation

E. W. Hawkins 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-0001-029-0591 (February 6, 2026).

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To his Excellency James F. Robinson Governor of Kentucky:

The undersigned citizens of Campbell County respectfully represent that George Coy and Jacob Hawthorn stand bound upon two bonds as sureties for one F. S. Grismier to keep the peace and as the bonds read for the appearance of the sad Grismier at the next [...] Term of the Campbell Circuit Court upon which bonds the Comths atto is asking a forfeiture upon the ground that Grissnier did not make his appearance at Court— there is no complaint that Grisnier did any thing to break the peace but on the contrary he was a law abiding peaceful citizen and we are satisfied that Coy & Hawthorn signed the bonds under the apprehension that they were only to be responsible in case that Grisnier committed a breach of the peace & that they did not understand that they were to be respoonsible for his appearance at Court— We think it a proper case for his interfering clemency of the Executive & ask that they the said Coy & Hawthorn be relieved from the effects of the bonds if within the power of the Governor to do so—

E. W. Hawkins

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Pettn for remission of bonds of George Coy & Jacob Hawthorn from Newport

Held for further advice

I am unwilling to interfere before judgt. It is a very bad precident which I have never set

Remit except fees & costs

Tho E Bramlette