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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0058 R3-94

Frankfort, Franklin 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. William H. Savage (Mason County, Kentucky, retail clerk and attorney) N00009206 1832? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, retail clerk and attorney. Kentucky native. Son of F. A. Savage. Married to Martha Miller Savage in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on March 13, 1860. Father of Frank Savage and Walter R. Savage. Clerk in Howard County, Missouri, in 1850. Attorney in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1860. Attorney in Mason County in 1863.

Relationships Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Social: Uncle Buck (Mentioned in a Aug. 25, 1862 letter from W H Savage to Harrison Taylor) Political: Harrison Taylor (Speaker State House, Mason Co, KY)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Howard County, p. 192A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 335. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Montgomery County, MT Sterling, p. 380D. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film #000183089. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994048, Mason County Births. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Mason County, KY, September 1863. William Ribelin Hedges (Rowan County, Kentucky, farmer. ) N00017345 1798-03-14 1885-11-28 Categories: People

Rowan County, Kentucky, farmer. Montgomery County, Kentucky native. Son of Levi Hedges and Rosannah Ribelin Hedges. Married to Malinda Russell Cassity Hedges in Rowan County, Kentucky on December 2, 1822. Father of Mary Ann Hedges Crouch, Addison Wesley Hedges, Viana Jane Hedges, Peter Thompson Hedges, Levi Marion Hedges, Rosannah Sarah Hedges Gilkison, Melissa Lucinda Hedges Generee, William Ribelin Hedges Jr., James Alva Hedges, and Isaac Armstrong Hedges. Farmer in Fleming County in 1850. Employed William N. Cassity as a laborer in Fleming County in 1850. Farmer in Rowan County in 1860. Imprisoned on a charge of arson in Fleming County in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Fleming County Jail Legal: Mason Circuit Court Political: William H. Savage (Mason County, Kentucky, retail clerk and attorney) Political: Harrison Taylor (Speaker State House, Mason Co, KY)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 2, p. 370A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, p. 637. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, Cross Roads, p. 109B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994053, Rowan County Marriages. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #2360. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #2711. "Melissa L. Hedges Steenrod (1838-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #89851945, accessed March 18, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89851945. "Rosanna Sarah Hedges Gilkison (1835-1924)," Find A Grave, Memorial #39193083, accessed March 18, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39193083. "William Ribelin Hedges (1798-1885)," Find A Grave, Memorial #64939177, accessed March 18, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64939177. KYR-0001-029-0057. Malinda Russell Cassity Hedges (Rowan County, Kentucky, housewife.) N00017346 1805-10-14 1887-09-14 Categories: People

Rowan County, Kentucky, housewife. Montgomery County, Kentucky native. Daughter of Peter Cassity and Mary Ann Armstrong. Married to William Ribelin Hedges in Rowan County, Kentucky on December 2, 1822. Mother of Mary Ann Hedges Crouch, Addison Wesley Hedges, Viana Jane Hedges, Peter Thompson Hedges, Levi Marion Hedges, Rosannah Sarah Hedges Gilkison, Melissa Lucinda Hedges Generee, William Ribelin Hedges Jr., James Alva Hedges, and Isaac Armstrong Hedges. Resident in Fleming County in 1850. Housewife in Rowan County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: William Ribelin Hedges (Rowan County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Mason Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 2, p. 370A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, p. 637. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Rowan County, Cross Roads, p. 109B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994053, Rowan County Marriages. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #2360. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #2711. "Melissa L. Hedges Steenrod (1838-1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #89851945, accessed March 18, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89851945. "Rosanna Sarah Hedges Gilkison (1835-1924)," Find A Grave, Memorial #39193083, accessed March 18, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39193083. "Malinda Russell Cassity Hedges (1805-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial #64939547, accessed March 18, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64939547. Harrison Taylor (Speaker State House, Mason Co, KY) N00008309 1810-08-10 1876-11-28 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Lewis County, Kentucky, native. Son of Joseph Taylor and Elizabeth Harrison Taylor. Married Charlotte Jane Duke Taylor in Scott County on January 14, 1840. Father of Mary D. Taylor, Elizabeth "Bessie" Taylor, Charlotte Taylor, Alice Taylor, Harry Taylor, and John D. Taylor. Deputy clerk in the Mason County Court and Mason Circuit Court from 1825 to 1829. Attorney in Washington, Kentucky, in 1833. Law partner of John A. McClung from 1835 to 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mason County in 1836. Commonwealth's Attorney from 1839 to 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mason County from 1857 to 1861. Owned four enslaved persons in Maysville in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 to 1867. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

Relationships Social: Edward Fleming (Maysville, KY) Familial: Samuel Hatfield (Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer and War of 1812 Veteran) Political: William C. Halbert (Lewis County, KY, farmer and attorney) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Political: Amos J. Means (Maysville, KY, blacksmith) Political: Thomas J. Walker (Lewis County, KY, saddler and farmer) Political: Francis B. Trussell (Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky, farmer and mayor) Political: William Henry Wadsworth (KY state senator, U. S. Representative, attorney, presidential elector) Social: Abner Hall (Mason County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John Morgan (Mason County, Kentucky, cooper) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: William H. Savage (Mason County, Kentucky, retail clerk and attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, p. 104B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, p. 321. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville Wards 1, 2 & 3, p. 4B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville Ward 1, p. 398A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, 1803-1883, Film #000183225, p. 145. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 215. W. M. Paxton, The Marshall Family: Or a Genealogical Chart of the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham, His Wife, Sketches of Individuals and Notices of Families Connected with Them (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1885), 182-83. Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Mason County, Kentucky P00000446 Categories: Places

County in northeast Kentucky. Seat at Maysville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6412, -83.7444 Jean W. Calvert, “Mason County” and “Maysville,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 614, 621-22. "Maysville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Mason Circuit Court O00000426 Categories: Organizations

Circuit court located in the 10th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): E. C. Phister and L. W. Andrews. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): R. H. Stanton and George M. Thomas. Clerk(s): Keith Berry and John M. Duke, Jr.

Relationships Legal: William Carr (Mays Lick, Kentucky, hotel keeper) Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) Legal: James Hessen (Maysville, Kentucky, drayman) Legal: Arthur F. Dobyns (Mason County, Kentucky, magistrate) Political: William H. Savage (Mason County, Kentucky, retail clerk and attorney)

“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), 304-305 “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), 301-306 “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Fleming County Jail O00014862 Categories: Organizations

Detention facility in Fleming County, Kentucky. Located in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Jailer(s): James M. Bowman (1861-1862).

“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), 304. KYR-0001-021-0018. United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

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Frankfort Aug. 29. 1862 Govr Robinson.

Dr Sir. The within Communication is from Mr Savage recently elected County judge in my county. The man Hedges to whom he alludes was recently engaged in tearing down and burning a house of ill fame in his neighborhood, and was fined in the Mason Circuit at its last July term $188 for his share in this matter. He was unable to either pay or replevy the fine and is in jail. I as protem attr. for the Commwlth prosecuted him and four others all of whom were fined. Hedges is a poor miserable creature, without much sense & perhaps has been punished sufficiently. He has now been in jail altogether about 3 months. His two sons have volunteered and gone to the army, and on his wifes account I think it would be well to let him out. I would be glad if you would release him.

I am very Respectfully Your Obt Sevt

H. Taylor

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Remitted & returned J F Robinson