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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-0001-029-0125 R3-194

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Charles Freese (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, convicted of peddling without a license.) N00018046 Categories: People

Convicted of peddling without a license in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. Fine remitted in November 1862.

Relationships Legal: William H. Sneed (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: Jacob Swigert, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, court clerk, and judge) Legal: Franklin County Court

KYR-0001-029-0119. KYR-0001-029-0125. Jacob Swigert, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, court clerk, and judge) N00001651 1793-07 1869-03-24 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, court clerk, and judge. Maryland native. Son of John Swigert and Mar Swigert. Married to Emeline Weisiger Swigert in April 1825. Father of Lucy Swigert, Emma Swigert, Daniel W. Swigert, and Helen Swigert. Married to Rebecca Johnson Swigert in May 1842. Father of Jacob Swigert, Jr., Samuel M. Swigert, and Joseph Swigert. Wrote in the Office of the Clerk of the Woodford County Court and Woodford Circuit Court from 1810 to 1814. Wrote in the Office of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1814 to 1815. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1816. Attorney in Frankfort from 1816 to 1825. Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1825 to 1858. Member of the Masonic Order of Kentucky from 1829 to 1869. Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South from 1840 to 1869. Owned twenty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Judge of the Franklin County Court from 1862 to 1869.

Relationships Social: Cyrenius Wait (Somerset, Kentucky, politician, merchant, and entrepreneur) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Legal: James Goff (Franklin County, KY, soldier) Legal: Baxter Merritt (Franklin County, KY, boatman and soldier in 6th Kentucky Cavalry (USA)) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 36B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 242. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 491A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 116-17. Find A Grave, "Judge Jacob Swigert (1793-1869)," Memorial #68832982, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68832982 (accessed May 24, 2017). 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. Sneed (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) N00018051 1838-09-01 1916-05-12 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Attorney in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Elected Franklin County Attorney in 1860. Served in the 22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from December 2, 1861 to April 13, 1862. Resigned due to medical disability on April 13, 1862. Attorney in Frankfort in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Jacob Swigert, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, court clerk, and judge)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 259. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States(1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 491B. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0351. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Franklin County, KY, July 1863, p. 33. L.F. Johnson_The History of Franklin County, Ky., (Frankfort, KY: Roberts Printing Co., 1912), 148-149. "W. H. Sneed (1838-1916)," Find A Grave, Memorial 59867443, accessed July 8, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/59867443. Franklin County, Kentucky P001019 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Frankfort. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, "Franklin County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 354-56. Franklin County Court O00000620 Categories: Organizations

Located in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. Administratively contains the county offices of the sheriff, coroner, surveyor, jailor, county assessor, county attorneys, and constables. Judge(s): Jacob Swigert, John R. Graham. Clerk(s): A. H. Rennick.

Relationships Economic: Lloyd Hackett, Sr. (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, laborer and justice of the peace) Political: Nathaniel Gaither, Jr. (Adair County, Kentucky, attorney, sec of state, pvt 6th KY Cav CSA) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Legal: William H. Sneed (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: Jacob Swigert, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, court clerk, and judge)

“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), 303-308; “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. 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. Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1861-11-04 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": 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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Office of the County Judge of the Franklin County Sct. Commonwealth vs } Warrant for peddling without License Chs. Freese Copy of Judgment"

Upon hearing of the within Complaint It being duly proven before me that the defendant Chs. Freese is guilty of the charge of peddling without License, and the sum of One Hundred Dollars being the amount of the fine for Said offence, it is now adjudged by the court that the said Freese shall pay the said fine of One Hundred Dollars together with dollars and cents costs --

A copy attest Witness -- J. Swigert presiding Judge of Franklin Cty:

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Commonwealth vs } copy of Judgt

Franklin Co. Ct. $100 } Peddliing

The within fine is remitted upon statement of Comths Atty & others

J F Robinson 4 Nov. 1861

Chas Freese IssdNov. 3d 1862

W, H, Sneed County attorney Franklin Co