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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-0001-029-0075 R3-121

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. James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant) N00002670 1827-03-11 1866-05-27 Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant. Ohio native. Son of Richard Brookover and Isabell Brookover. Married to Rachel Brookover. Father of Henry Brookover. Grocery merchant in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1850. Grocer in Maysville in 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Thomas E. Grier (Mason County, KY, grocery clerk & Ohio soldier) Political: Reuben S. Darnall (Mason County, KY, mason's apprentice and military drummer, private & first sergeant) Familial: John W. Brookover (Huntington, Brown County, Ohio, farmer and soldier.) Legal: Samuel W. Wood (Mason County, Kentucky, city collector) Familial: Amanda Bradford Brookover (Brown County, Ohio resident.) Social: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Enslaved person in Mason County, Kentucky) Social: Green H. McAtee (Mason County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 108A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 304. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Mason County, KY, October 1863, p. 12. "James C. Brookover (1827-1866)," Find A Grave, Memorial #128439900, accessed November 13, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128439900/james-c.-brookover. [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned as a possible enslaved individual in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1862. ) N00017571 Categories: People

Mentioned in a September 24, 1862, Mason County, Kentucky, petition from James C. Brookover to James Fisher Robinson as an enslaved person sold liquor by James Brookover.

Relationships Economic: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

KYR-0001-029-0075. John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) N00003336 1804? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Ann Reid Taylor in Mason County, Kentucky, in September 1828. Attorney in Mason County in 1850. Attorney in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 120A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 177. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film #000281842. Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) N00004303 1830-05-21 1872-05-22 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, court clerk. Mason County native. Son of Darius Berry and Eliza Keith Berry. Married to Georgia Ann Berry in Mason County, Kentucky, on November 14, 1857. Father of Eliza Berry. Clerk of Mason Circuit Court in Mason County from 1860 to 1861.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 3, p. 84. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994048, Mason County Marriages. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 357. 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. "Thomas Keith Berry (1830-1872)," Find A Grave, Memorial #128651404, accessed May 2, 2018, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128651404. John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) N00006583 1821? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1846. Attorney in Maysville in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mason County from 1853 to 1855. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Thomas A. Respass (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Nelson (Maysville, Kentucky merchant) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 48A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 98. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 13A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 1, p. 397A. The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky (Danville, KY: Cincinatti Gazette Steam Print, 1860), p. 16. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 547-8. George Brown (Mason County, Kentucky, watchmaker) N00017559 1826? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, watchmaker. Native of England. Married to Alice Brown. Watchmaker in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1860. Watchmaker in Mason County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Stephen B. Reese (Mason County, Kentucky, cooper) Legal: Hugh McCollough (Mason County) Legal: John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 296. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Mason County, KY, October 1863, p. 12. James P. Poyntz (Mason County, Kentucky, merchant) N00004291 1830? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, clerk, merchant, and bookkeeper. Kentucky native. Son of Nathaniel Poyntz. Clerk in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Merchant in Mason County in 1860. Bookkeeper in Mason County in 1863.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: George Brown (Mason County, Kentucky, watchmaker) Legal: Stephen B. Reese (Mason County, Kentucky, cooper) Legal: Hugh McCollough (Mason County) Legal: John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 1, p. 108A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 757. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 1, p. 317. 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. John Ravencraft (Maysville, Kentucky, boarding housekeeper, and coal inspector) N00017562 1820? Categories: People

Maysville, Kentucky, boarding housekeeper and coal inspector. Lewis County, Kentucky, native. Married to Margaret Ellis Ravencraft in Mason County, Kentucky, on July 9, 1846. Father of Jane Ravencraft Arthur, Mary Ravencraft, Alice Ravencraft, and John Ravenscraft. Boarding housekeeper in Maysville in 1850. Coal inspector in Maysville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Alfred Fristoe (Mason County, Kentucky, fisherman, and gardener) Legal: James P. Poyntz (Mason County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: George Brown (Mason County, Kentucky, watchmaker) Legal: Stephen B. Reese (Mason County, Kentucky, cooper) Legal: Hugh McCollough (Mason County) Legal: John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 36A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 312. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #669. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film #000281843. Hugh McCollough (Mason County) N00004290 1794? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, tavern keeper. Native of Ireland. Married to Margaret Thompson McCullough in December 1832. Father of Alexander McCullough, Hugh McCullough, William McCullough, Thomas McCullough, Ann McCullough, Mary McCullough, and Jane McCullough. Employed in commerce, manufacture, and trade in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1840. Owned three enslaved persons in Maysville in 1840. Tavern keeper in Maysville in 1850. Employed Alexander McCullough and Hugh McCullogh as barkeepers in Maysville in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Maysville in 1850. Resident of Mason County in 1861.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: James P. Poyntz (Mason County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 1, p. 28. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 107A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 757. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film #000281842. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #21381. Alfred Fristoe (Mason County, Kentucky, fisherman, and gardener) N00017561 1811-01-30 1898-11-23 Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, fisherman, and gardener. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Fristoe. Father of Eliza A. Fristoe, William Fristoe, George Fristoe, Thomas Fristoe, John L. Fristoe, Richard H. Fristoe, Levi A. Fristoe, Caroline E. Fristoe, and Alfred Fristoe. Resident of Mason County, Kentucky, in 1840. Fisherman in Mason County in 1850. Gardener in Mason County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: James P. Poyntz (Mason County, Kentucky, merchant) Legal: George Brown (Mason County, Kentucky, watchmaker) Legal: Stephen B. Reese (Mason County, Kentucky, cooper) Legal: Hugh McCollough (Mason County) Legal: John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Northern District, p. 6. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 98B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 159. "Alfred Fristoe (1811-1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial #31770378, accessed May 11, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31770378. Stephen B. Reese (Mason County, Kentucky, cooper) N00017558 1806? Categories: People

Mason County, Kentucky, cooper. Maryland native. Married to Elizabeth Ann Dredden Reese in Mason County, Kentucky, in January 1831. Father of Isaac Reese. Engaged in manufacture and trade occupation in Mason County in 1840. Cooper in Mason County, Kentucky in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Hugh McCollough (Mason County) Legal: John G. Hickman (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Thomas Keith Berry (Mason County, Kentucky, circuit clerk) Legal: John D. Taylor (Mason County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Mason Circuit Court Legal: James C. Brookover (Maysville, Kentucky, grocery merchant)

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Northern Division, p. 5 Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, District 2, p. 138. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #26810. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, X County Marriages, Film #000281842. Maysville, Kentucky P00001219 Categories: Places

Seat of Mason County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.6412, -83.7444 Jean W. Calvert, "Maysville" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 621-22. " Maysville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). 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. 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. 1862-09-24 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his Excellency James F Robinson, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

Your petitioner James C Brookover resident in the city ofMaysville in the state of Kentucky represents that at the last July Term of the Mason Circuit Court, he was fined the sum of fifty dollars for selling liquor to a slave, such was the Character of the Indictment and the ruling and opinion of the court upon a ,Demeanor thereto as to preclude him from making any successful defence thereto -- It was proved that upon one occasion liquor was sold to a negro, but whether he was a slave witness did not know, nor was there any allegation in the Indictment as to where if a slave to whom he belonged -- he annexes hereto a copy of the indictment and although he may appeal from the Judgement, yet he hopes your Excellency will Issue under the circumstances it a fit case for executive clemency and remit said fine which he respectfully solicits you to do

James.C. Brookover

Septr 24" 1862

The undersigned concur and unite in the prayer of the above petition

Jno D Taylor Keith Berry J G Hickman George Brown Jas P. Pope J. Ravencroft H, McCallough Alfred Fristoe Stevin, B, Reese

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Jas. C. Brookover Pettn to remit fine Examd Pettn refused J F Robinson