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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-0001-029-0170 R3-261

Mayfield, Graves 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. Freeman Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer) N00019448 1834? 1910-03-30 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer. Tennessee native. Son of John Halbrook and Elizabeth Halbrook. Married to Amanda Halbrook. Father of George Halbrook and Nancy E. Halbrook. Laborer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Graves County in 1860. Farmer in Graves County in 1862.

Relationships Familial: Eliza Ann Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) Familial: Martha Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) Familial: John Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer and minister) Legal: Graves Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 370A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 45. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 196B. "Mayfield News," The Paducah Evening Sun (Paducah, Kentucky), March 30, 11910, p. 4. KYR-0001-029-0170 Eliza Ann Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) N00019451 1849? Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Daughter of Martha Halbrook. Resident of Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attended school in Graves County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Martha Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) Familial: John Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer and minister) Familial: Freeman Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 370A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, [District Not Stated], p. 45. Martha Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) N00019450 1814? Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, resident. Tennessee native. Daughter of John Halbrook and Elizabeth Halbrook. Mother of Eliza Ann Halbrook. Resident of Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident of Graves County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Eliza Ann Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) Familial: John Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer and minister) Familial: Freeman Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 370A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 45. John Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer and minister) N00019449 1790? Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, farmer and minister. North Carolina native. Married to Elizabeth New Halbrook in Stokes County, North Carolina, on June 17, 1811. Father of Martha Halbrook and Freeman Halbrook. Farmer in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1850. Minister in Graves County in 1860.

Relationships Familial: Eliza Ann Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) Familial: Martha Halbrook (Graves County, KY, resident) Familial: Freeman Halbrook (Graves County, KY, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 370A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 45. North Carolina County Registers of Deeds, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, RG 048, Stokes County Marriage Bonds - Abstracts (1790-1870), p. 123. Lucian Anderson (Graves County, KY, attorney and politician) N00000809 1824-06-23 1898-10-18 Categories: People

Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Son of John Anderson and Nancy Davenport Anderson. Married to Ann R. Lockridge Anderson in 1846. Father of Harry C. Anderson, Nancy A. Anderson, Herbert L. Anderson, Robert L. Anderson, Mayes Anderson, and Lillian Anderson. Admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1845. Attorney in Graves County in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Presidential elector for the Whig Party from the 1st District of Kentucky in 1852. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Graves County from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in Graves County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the First Congressional District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864. Accused of extorting citizens in Paducah in July and August 1864.

Relationships Political: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Social: Andrew R. Boon (Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Social: Edward Crossland (Hickman County, Kentucky, lawyer and colonel (C.S.A)) Social: Rufus K. Williams (Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals) Political: Samuel H. Jenkins (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Ervin Anderson (Graves County, Kentucky, clerk of Graves County Circuit Court) Legal: Graves Circuit Court Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 363B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 332. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 53A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 219B. “Investigation of General Paine’s Administration at Paducah,” Louisville Weekly Journal (Louisville, KY), October 4, 1864, p. 1. Berry Craig, "Anderson, Lucian," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), p. 20. Berry Craig and Dieter C. Ullrich, Unconditional Unionist: The Hazardous Life of Lucian Anderson, Kentucky Congressman (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016). Mayfield, Kentucky P00003915 Categories: Places

Seat of Graves County, Kentucky.

36.7417, -88.6367 Berry Craig, "Mayfield" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 619-20. "Mayfield, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 13, 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). Graves County, Kentucky P00000908 Categories: Places

County in far western Kentucky. Seat at Mayfield.

36.6888, -88.7109 “Graves County, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Lon Carter Barton, “Graves County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 384-85. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 123. Graves Circuit Court O00000382 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 1st Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): Rufus K. Williams and Charles S. Marshall. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Thomas H. Corbett, Philip D. Yeiser, and W. W. Tice. Clerk(s): Ervin Anderson and W. A. Turner.

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), 355-59. 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. 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. Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky 1863-01-20 Correspondence 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 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Mayfield, Ky Jany 20 1863. Gov, Robinson.

At the November of the Graves Circuit Court for 1862 the Grand Jury of said County indicted Freeman Halbrooks for an assault & battery on his neice Ann Halbrooks and the case was tried and Said Freeman Halbrooks fine a One Hundred and fifteen Dollars -- The facts in the case were these Freman Halbrooks and the mother of Ann was both living with the Father John Halbrooks; an old & respected citizen of our County the control of the farm and in fact everything on the place was given up to Freeman by the old man in Sept last whilst they were all engaged in cutting & hawling tobacco Ann Halbrooks a young girl about 12 or 13 years old was watching the gap to keep out the stock & whilst the others were gone with a load of Tobacco she went into the Tobacco patch & pulled up all the water melon vines Freeman for the without passion or to injure her cut a small haggle twig and struck her ten or twelve times & this is the alledged assault & battery on which he was fined the old man Halbrooks was a witness & stated that there was no malice in the whole affair but that Freeman done what he did for the girls own good we think under the circumstances Halbrook being a very poor

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that this is a case which calls for Executive interposition.

Lucian Anderson J. B Holbrooks

Graves Cir Ct Pettn of L. Anderson & Husbands to remit from Holbrooks Graves County

$115 } assault

Remit all but $25.00 & costs J F Robinson

J. Halbrooks IssdApr 20. 1863