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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-0001-029-0126 R3-195

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. Daniel McGrath (Clark County, Kentucky, saddler.) N00018439 1824-06-20 1888-12-17 Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, saddler. Native of Ireland. Married to Jane Kennan McGrath. Father of Elizabeth McGrath, John E. McGrath, Catherine "Kate" McGrath, and Ann McGrath. Immigrated to the United States in 1849. Resident of Clark County, Kentucky, in 1853. Harness maker in Clark County in 1860. Member of the Winchester Home Guard in 1862. Saddler in Clark County in 1863. Farmer in Carroll County, Missouri, in 1865.

Relationships Military: Winchester Home Guards Legal: Zachariah Gibbons (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Lexington City Court Legal: Speed Smith Goodloe (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: Charles Poston (Clark County, Kentucky, clerk and constable) Social: Robert C. Nicholas (Clark County, Kentucky, carpenter and master carpenter) Social: William G Stuart (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Benjamin F. Buckner (Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Social: Theodore Kohlhass, Sr. (Clark County, Kentucky, accountant and politician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester District 2, p. 884. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Saline County, Marshall Township, p. 159B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Clark County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 9. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994031, Clark County Births. History of Saline County, Missouri: Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, (St. Louis, MO: Missouri Historical Company, 1881): pp. 766-767. "Daniel McGrath (1824-1888)," Find A Grave, Memorial 77589900, accessed November 30, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77589900. Zachariah Gibbons (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney) N00004828 1827 1904-01-21 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Married to Rhoda A. Gibbons. Father of Annie B. Gibbons and Addie M. Gibbons. Carpenter in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Lexington in 1860. Judge in Lexington in 1865.

Relationships Political: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Legal: Fayette Circuit Court Legal: David Ingles (Lexington, Kentucky, hack driver and dray man)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 221B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 600. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 256A. Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007130: Jefferson County Deaths, Books 12-13, p. 131. Speed Smith Goodloe (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00004016 1837-02-10 1877-05-14 Categories: People

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Son of David S. Goodloe and Sally A. Goodloe. Married to Mary E. Shreve Goodloe in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, on April 5, 1860. Resident of Lexington in 1850. Graduated from Centre College in 1856. Resident of Lexington in 1860. Attorney in Lexington. Judge of the Lexington City Court from 1862 to 1870.

Relationships Political: James Donahoe (Lexington, Kentucky, grocer) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Legal: Alexander H. Robertson (Petition signer in Fayette County, Kentucky) Legal: Lexington City Court Legal: James Robinson (Kenton County, KY, farmer and soldier)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 214A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 3, p. 596. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819612. Alexander Maydwell, Jr., comp., Maydwell's Lexington City Directory for 1867 (Cincinnati: Miami Printing and Publishing Co., 1867), 13. 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. The Twelfth Triennial and Thirty-Sixth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College at Danville, Kentucky, 1860 (Danville: Cincinnati Gazette Steam Print, 1860), 26. William Henry Perrin, ed., _History of Fayette County, Kentucky, with an Outline Sketch of the Blue Grass Region by Robert Peter, M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Chemist to the State Geological Society, Etc. (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin and Company, 1882), 609. "Speed S. Goodloe (1837-1877)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100859397, accessed September 1, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100859397. KYR-0001-020-1934. Winchester, Kentucky P001792 Categories: Places

Seat of Clark County, Kentucky.

37.9901, -84.1797 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 321. "Winchester, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 23, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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. Lexington City Court O00000729 Categories: Organizations

Located in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Judge(s): A. H. Robertson and Speed S. Goodloe. Clerk(s): George R. Letcher, George Stoll, Jr, and Cincinnatus Shryock.

Relationships Legal: William Allen Lindsay (Scott County, Kentucky, hotel keeper and tavern keeper) Legal: Samuel Downing (Lexington miller and carpenter) Legal: Leonidas B. Talbott (Fayette County, Kentucky, boarding house operator) Legal: James Lewis (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Henry Lyons (Lexington resident ) Legal: Martin Van Buren Worsham (Laborer, Lexington, Fayette County) Legal: James Platt (Fayette County, baker and grocer) Legal: Harvey C. Graves (Lexington, Kentucky, clerk) Legal: James H. Jeffries (Clark County, Kentucky, clerk) Legal: George W. Stoll, Jr. (Lexington, Kentucky, resident) Legal: George R. Letcher (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky city court clerk) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Williams’ Lexington City Directory, for 1864-65 (Lexington: Williams & Co., 1864), 7-8; “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. Winchester Home Guards O00018449 1862? Categories: Organizations

State militia organization from Clark County, Kentucky. Organized in Winchester, Kentucky. Captain: J.W. Carrick.

A.C. Quisenberry, "Kentucky Union Troops in the Civil War," Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, vol. 18, no. 20 (September, 1920): pp. 13-18. 1862-11-12 Petition 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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To His Excellency James F Robinson Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner respectfully represents that he has been arrested and fined in the City Court ^of Lexington^ in the sum of Fifty Dollars and costs, for carrying a concealed deadly weapon.

Your petitioner further states that he is a member of the Home Guards at Winchester and did not feel safe without a weapon to defend himself against attacks from Southern men and sympathiser, and hence he carried a weapon, which was carried not with any intention of disreguarding the law but that he believed that the safety of his person demanded such a precaution Wherefore he prays to be discharged from his liability for said fine as far as in your power lies.

Dan McGrath

Sworn to before me this 12th day of November 1862.

Z. Gibbons. N. P.

The undersigned unites in the prayer of the Petitioner, believe the facts as stated are true, and the City Attorney for himself states ^he^ that has remitted all fees to which he is entitled in the above case.

Z. Gibbons City. Atty.

Speed S. Goodloe City Judge