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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0044 BR8-67 to BR8-68

Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. Goble G. Burgess (Boyd County, Kentucky, resident) N00005731 1843 1901 Categories: People

Boyd County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of George R. Burgess and Martha A. Burgess. Resident of Lawrence, Kentucky in 1850. Resident of Boyd County, Kentucky in 1860. Artist in Boyd County in 1863. Candidate for mayor of Catlettsburg in 1863.

Relationships Familial: George R. Burgess (Boyd County, farmer)

Find A Grave, "Goble G. Burgess (1843-1901)," Find A Grave Memorial #75594258, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75594258 (accessed 13 May 2017). Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), BoydCounty, KY, May 1865, p. 22, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence, p. 110A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd, p. 703. KYR-0001-004-0044. James L. Turman (Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper and farmer) N00005729 1810? Categories: People

Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret Turman. Father of James R. Turman, John J.C. Turman, Belvidere Turman, Samuel A. Turman, Benjamin Turman, Sabrina M. Turman, Pamelia Turman. Farmer in Lawrence County in 1850. Farmer in Boyd County in 1860. Tavern keeper in Boyd County in 1863.

Relationships Economic: Goble G. Burgess (Boyd County, Kentucky, resident) Social: James W. Riely (Boyd County, Kentucky, county and circuit clerk) Social: Frank Fairbaim (Boyd County, Kentucky) Social: George N. Brown (Boyd County, Kentucky, attorney and state legislature. ) Social: James Lampton (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John H. Eastham (Boyd County, KY, sheriff, farmer) Social: Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) Social: Goble G. Burgess (Boyd County, Kentucky, resident)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence, 96A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Cattlettsburg, p. 14. KYR-0001-004-0044. George R. Burgess (Boyd County, farmer) N00005730 1813-09-25 1900-08-15 Categories: People

Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Martha A. Spurlock Burgess. Father of Strother Burgess, Goble Burgess, Susan M. Burgess, Virginia C. Burgess, Charity C. Burgess, Pamelia F. Burgess, Martha R. Burgess, George Burgess, William Burgess, Catherine Burgess. Farmer in Lawrence County in 1850. Farmer in Boyd County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 110A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, p. 703. Find A Grave, "George R. Burgess (1813-1900)," Memorial #122825171, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122825171 (accessed 11 May 2017). John H. Eastham (Boyd County, KY, sheriff, farmer) N00003109 1816-06-04 1889-04-22 Categories: People

Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Eastham. Father of Virginia Eastham, Miriam Eastham, George E. Eastham, Margaret Eastham, and Mary E. Eastham. Farmer in Carter County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Boyd County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons (Margaret [Unknown], George [Unknown], and James [Unknown]) in Boyd County in 1860. Sheriff of Boyd County in 1861.

Relationships Legal: Boyd Circuit Court Political: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Political: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky Carter County, District 2, p. 224B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, p. 760. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, p. 146A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, District 2, p. 15A. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 49. William Ely, The Big Sandy Valley: A History of the People and Country from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Catlettsburg, KY: Central Methodist, 1887), p. 488. "John Higgens Eastham (1816-1889)," Find A Grave, Memorial 119804283, accessed April 6, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119804283. James Lampton (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005732 1787 1864-07-27 Categories: People

Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of William Lampton and Patsy Schooler Lampton. Married to Susannah Ryan Lampton in Bourbon, Kentucky on June 19, 1809. Father of John B. Lampton, William Henry Lampton, Robert W. Lampton, Polly Lampton, and Susan Ann Lampton Womack. Owned seven enslaved people in Greenup County in 1830. Appointed postmaster in Greenup County on February 15, 1837. Manufacturer in Carter County in 1850. Farmer in Greenup County in 1860.

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup, p. 74. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter, District 2, p. 226A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Greenup, p. 787. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000183145, p. 40. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Volume 12a, 1832-1844, Kentucky, Grayson-Knott, (accessed via Ancestry.com). Clayton KeithSketch of the Lampton Family in America, 1740-1914, (C. Keith, 1914), p. 9, 41. Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1907, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Accession no 7522 p. 125. George N. Brown (Boyd County, Kentucky, attorney and state legislature. ) N00005733 1822-09-22 1901-03-10 Categories: People

Boyd County, Kentucky, attorney and state representative. Huntington, Cabell County, Virginia native. Son of Richard Brown and Frances Haney Brown. Married to Maria J. Poage Brown in 1857. Graduated Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1844. Elected to the Lower House of the Kentucky legislature in 1849, representing Floyd, Pike, and Johnson counties. Elected as a Whig. Became a Democrat in 1855. Practiced law in Pikeville, Kentucky until 1860. Attorney in Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky in June 1860.

Relationships Social: Jane Welch (Catlettsburg, Boyd County, resident. ) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 (Cincinnati, OH: J.M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 334-35. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Catlettsburg post office, p. 123. "George Martin Brown" [grandson of George N. Brown], in Official Congressional Directory (1919), 33. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865); Record Group: 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War); Collection Name: Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records); NAI: 4213514; Archive Volume Number: 3 of 3, Boyd County, Kentucky, p. 9. Find A Grave, "George N. Brown (September 22, 1822- March 03, 2010)," Memorial #175296317, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175296317 (accessed May 07, 2019). Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994035, Henderson County Marriages, p. 1140. Frank Fairbaim (Boyd County, Kentucky) N00005734 Categories: People

Signed a petition on behalf of Goble Burgess in Boyd County on May 4, 1863.

KYR-0001-004-0044. James W. Riely (Boyd County, Kentucky, county and circuit clerk) N00003107 1830? Categories: People

Catlettsburg, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Clerk in Carter County in 1850. Clerk of Boyd County Court from 1860 to 1863. Clerk of Boyd Circuit Court from 1860 to 1863.

Relationships Legal: Boyd Circuit Court Social: James Lampton (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Levi J. Hampton (Boyd County, Kentucky, traderman, hotel keeper, justice of the peace, and soldier) Legal: H. W. Norris (Boyd County, Kentucky, tailor and hotel keeper) Legal: Boyd County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carter County, District 2, p. 226A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Cattletsburg, p. 124. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860,” in 1861 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 356-58. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Laban Thomas Moore (Representative, colonel, and Lawrence Co attorney) N00000825 1829-01-13 1892-11-09 Categories: People

Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier. Cabell County, Virginia, native. Son of Frederick William Moore. Married to Sarah A. Everett Moore on January 15, 1850. Father of Felicia E. Moore, Mary F. Moore, S. G. Moore, Minnie H. Moore, and Druzilla Moore. Attended Marshall Academy in Virginia. Graduate of Marietta College in Washington County, Ohio. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1849. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1850. Member of the United States House of Representative from the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Member of the Opposition Party. Attorney in Lawrence County in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a colonel from November 1861 to January 1862.

Relationships Legal: Lawrence Circuit Court Political: Richard Scott, Sr. (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Elba Ulin (Catlettsburg, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Richard Taylor Jacob (Oldham Co, KY, Col of 9th Cav, Lt. Gov of KY, 1863-1867) Military: Gaylord McFall (Richland County, Ohio, merchant and soldier) Military: Nelson Trusler (Connersville, Indiana, attorney, politician, and soldier) Military: Samuel Orr (Delaware County, IN, farmer and soldier) Military: Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier) Economic: Boyd Circuit Court Legal: James L. Turman (Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper and farmer) Economic: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Jackson H. Jacobs (Greenup County, Kentucky, farmer and captain 14th Cav USA & 1st lt Cap Guards) Military: 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 75B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Louisa, p. 186. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 333B. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Upper Catlettsburg Precinct 6, p. 213A. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry, and Modern Activities, Vol. 3 (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), p. 1562-1564. “Moore, Laban Theodore,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000907. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 350. “Col. Laban T. Moore Dead,” Mt. Sterling Advocate (Mount Sterling, Ky.), November 15, 1892. “Laban Theodore Moore (1829-1892),” Find A Grave, Memorial 7773434, accessed December 20, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7773434. Boyd County, Kentucky P00001174 Categories: Places

County in northeast Kentucky. Seat at Catlettsburg. Located on the Ohio River and the Big Sandy River.

38.4048, -82.6004 "Catlettsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 8, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Evelyn Scyphers Jackson, "Boyd County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 108-09. Catlettsburg, Kentucky P00001173 Categories: Places

Seat of Boyd County, Kentucky. Located on the confluence of the Ohio River and Big Sandy River.

38.4048, -82.6004 "Catlettsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 8, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. James C. Powers, "Catlettsburg," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 170. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Boyd Circuit Court O00000360 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 11th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William H. Burns (1860-1861) and Richard A. Apperson, Jr. (1862-1865). Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): James M. Nesbitt (1860-1862) and J. Saige Dury (1862-1865). Clerk(s): James W. Riely (1860-1863), W. O. Hampton, and , and Charles L. Reason (1865).

Relationships Legal: German Mays (Boyd County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: James L. Turman (Boyd County, Kentucky, farmer and tavern keeper and farmer)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Catlettsburg, Boyd County, Kentucky 1863-05-04 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his excellency James {Unclear}F Robinson Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky -- your petetioner states that at the last Term of the ^Boyd^ Circuit Court (April 1863) he was fined fifty dollars ($50) for selling Liqour to an infant -- ^towit^ Gobble Burgess -- he says that Burges was a candidate for the office of Mayor was as he learned ^since^ under 21 years of age barely had been doing business for some time for himself your petitioner being a Lisensed Tavern Keeper in Boyd County -- did let said Burgess have some Liquor to treat his friends as he said -- that he did not know that he was violating the Law -- said Burgess was an inteligent sober man and not doubting his being of age -- he prays your excellency to remit the fine yours & c

James L Turman

I George Burgess of Boyd county -- states that Goble Burgess is his son -- that he was well grown & had been doing business for himself that Turman is his neighbour that he had permitted said son of his to trade with Turman -- he was candidate as represented by Turman -- He states his son is sober -- ^& was going on 21 years old out of his 20th I think -- ^ He asks that the fine may be remitted against Turman believing in this instance and satisfied that Turman would do his son no injury -- & wasviolated the Law unintentionally this 4th day of may 1863.

G, R, Burgess

we the undersign recommend the case of James L Turman as stated in thehis petitionr to be such that the executive should interfere and remit

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the fine assessed

J. H. Eastham James Lampton George N Brown Frank Fairbaim J W Riely

His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky

I was acting judge of the Boyd Circuit Court, at the time of the rendition of the judgment against The petitioner Turman and heard the evidence I am satisfied that Turman did not knowingly violate the Law, he supposed Gobel Burgess was in his majority.

Laban T Moore

Jas L. Turman Catlettsburg Boyd County Kentucky --

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James L Turman to } Petition for Release fine Gov,, of Kentucky

Boyd Cir Ct $50 -- Jas L Turman Remitted 4th Sept 1863