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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-0001-029-0153 R3-231 to R3-232

Barren 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. James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) N00017048 1822 1897 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Ann Mariah Perkins Doty. Father of John P. Doty, Theodore F. Doty, and Mariah "Belle" Doty. Farmer in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Barren County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860. Farmer in Barren County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: W. F. Evans (Glasgow, Kentucky) Legal: Barren Circuit Court Political: [Unknown] Clark (Barren County, KY, prov govt) Legal: Barren County Court Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Government of the United States of America

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 1, p. 337A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 916. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 60B-61A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 433B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Barren County, KY, February 1864, p. 41. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 9217. "Capt James Monroe Doty (1822-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial 146637290, accessed January 14, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146637290. William G. Rodes (Barren County, Kentucky, physician) N00017733 1812? 1881-05-06 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Jordan Rodes in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1834. Divorced from Eliza Jordan Rodes. Fathered children with Ann Rodes. Father of John W. Rodes, Sydney Rodes, Mary Rodes, Betsy Rodes, Henretta Rodes, and Haiden Rodes. Physician in Barren County in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Physician in Barren County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860.

Relationships Social: James M. Doty (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, First Division, p. 336A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, First Division, p. 154. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 914. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 2, p. 6A. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 25791. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Barren County Marriages, Film 000290752. "Dr. William G. Rhodes (1812-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 106413799, accessed June 20, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106413799. Barren County, Kentucky P00000558 Categories: Places

County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Glasgow. Located on the Barren River.

36.9959, -85.9119 Cecil E. Goode, “Barren County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 54. "Glasgow, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 11, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Confederate States of America O00003030 1861-02-08 1865-05 Categories: Organizations

Governing and administrative body of the Confederate States. Capitals at Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia.

Relationships Military: Army of Mississippi (C.S.A.) Military: Department of the Mississippi Military: Department (Army) of the Potomac Military: George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov & CSA)) Military: Humphrey Marshall (Confederate Gen. & Rep.) Political: Humphrey Marshall (Confederate Gen. & Rep.) Military: Provisional Council Political: Provisional Government of Kentucky Political: Committee on Foreign Relations Political: Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney) Political: Provisional Council Military: Provisional Government of Kentucky Military: Confederate States Army Military: The People's Bank of Kentucky Military: Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville Military: Committee on Banks Military: Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow Military: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green

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Barren County Ky Jany 1863 Hon: James F Robertson

Dear Sir -- I am a close neighbor and acquaintance of your Petitioner James M Doty -- I have read his petition to your Excellency and know the statements therein ^made^ are true -- During the origin and progress of this revolution -- I have been an anxious observer of men and things in the neighbourhood in which I live -- And it affords me pleasure to State, that whilst your Petitioner was recognized as belonging to the revolutionary part -- he was never active, save in smoothing its asperation, and in his efforts to secure the personal and pecuniary safety, of the loyal men of his neighbourhood -- In the absence of any protection from the government, the loyal men around him, had nothing to shield them from violence -- during that terrible and ever memorable reign of terror -- but the considerable kindness and interposition of your Petitioner -- This was exercised by him to such an extent, as to cause him to be suspected by his party -- And I doubt not, that he was compelled the risk of taking office at their hands, to Secure his own Safety -- Now let me assure your Excellency, that the exercise of your Clemency in granting a full pardon, to your Petitioner in the premises -- will be as gratefully and as kindly acknowledged by the loyal men of his neighbourhood as by himself and family --

Your obedient Servant W G Rodes

To his Excellency J F Robertson Governor of Ky

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J. M. Doty of Barren pettn to pardon for offenses of usurpation of Office

The matt. in this case has not been tried. It is a very dangerous exercise of my power to arrest the trial of offences if such power exists I do not think any good reason appears to exercise it in this case now

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