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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-0001-029-0120 R3-187

Springfield, Washington 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. Henry H. Alsman (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer.) N00018054 1831? Categories: People

Washington County, Kentucky, farmer. Garrard County, Kentucky, native. Son of Joshua Alsman and Avila Alsman. Married to Sarah Ann Sanders Alsman in Washington County, Kentucky, on September 9, 1852. Father of William T. Alsman, Cynthia Alsman, and James Alsman. Resident of Washington County in 1850. Farmer in Washington County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Reuben Samuel Peters (Washington County, Kentucky, county court clerk) Legal: Washington Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, p. 157B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, District No. 1, p. 182. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States(1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Shelby, p. 192A. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994057, Washington County Marriages. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 192. Reuben Samuel Peters (Washington County, Kentucky, county court clerk) N00015838 1829-08-26 1873-02-28 Categories: People

Washington County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Nancie Patton Peters in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 6, 1857. Deputy clerk in Marion County in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. County court clerk in Washington County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Washington County in 1860. County court clerk in Washington County in 1862. County court clerk in Washington County in 1863. County court clerk in Washington County in 1865.

Relationships Political: Washington County Court Political: Anthony B. Hundley (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: John E. McIntire (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer and judge) Legal: Henry H. Alsman (Washington County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Washington County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 1, p. 326A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 602. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, Springfield, p. 226. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, Springfield, p. 471B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 2, p. 126B. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994057, Washington County Marriages. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 263. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Washington County, KY, Month 1863, p. 387. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1865), 12. "Richard S. Peters (1829-1873)," Find A Grave, Memorial #136373022, accessed September 28, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136373022. KYR-0001-031-0050. Springfield, Kentucky P00001847 Categories: Places

Seat of Washington County.

37.6853, -85.2222 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 279. "Springfield, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 1, 2021, 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). Lincoln County, Kentucky P00005395 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Stanford, Kentucky.

37.5312, -84.6619 Allan R. Leach, "Lincoln County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001), p. 557-58. "Stanford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 2, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky 1862-11-28 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Springfield Ky -- Novr 28th 1862 -- Hon James F Robinson -- Governor of Kentucky -- Dear Sir --

Enclosed find the Petition of Mr Henry H Alsman for the remission of a fine imposed on a charge of carrying concealed weapons --

I am intimately acquainted with him and have been from his infancy, and have never heard him charged with anything wrong.: he is a sober industrious young man: he now resides in Lincoln County and the persons who have signed the petition all reside in the neighborhood where he was raised and resided until a year or two ago --

If you can do anything for him, please enclose the paper to me at this place --

Yours Respectfully

R S Peters