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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-0001-029-0194 R3-293

Owensboro, Daviess 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. William A. Mitchell (McLean County, Kentucky, farm laborer.) N00019978 1842? Categories: People

McLean County, Kentucky, farm laborer. North Carolina native. Son of Christian A. Mitchell and Mary L. Mitchell. Resident of Daviess County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in McLean County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in McLean County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned in connection with a dispute in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky on January 23, 1863.) Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned in connection with a dispute in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky on January 23, 1863.) Legal: John A. Robertson (Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 2, p. 435B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, pp. 39-40. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, p. 432B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McLean County, Calhoun Precinct, p. 190A. [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned in connection with a dispute in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky on January 23, 1863.) N00019972 Categories: People

Daviess County, Kentucky, resident. Mentioned in connection with a dispute Daviess County on January 23, 1863.

Relationships Legal: [Unknown] [Unknown] (Mentioned in connection with a dispute in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky on January 23, 1863.) Legal: John A. Robertson (Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

KYR-0001-029-0194. John A. Robertson (Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00019959 1818-02-13 Categories: People

Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Susan Robertson. Father of Cyrus Robertson, Emma Robertson, A. M. Robertson, Rosaline B. Robertson, John A. Robertson, Jr, and Parks Robertson. Farmer in Meade County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Meade County in 1850. Farmer in Daviess County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Daviess County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Daviess County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, p. 200A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 2, p. 881. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 2, p. 386A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Vanover Precinct, pp. 337A-B. "John Anderson Robertson (1818-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 119442778, accessed May 12, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/119442778. Owensboro, Kentucky P00004898 Categories: Places

Seat of Daviess County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7742, -87.1133 Lee A. Dew, "Owensboro," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington, University of Kentucky Press, 1992), 700-01. “Owensboro, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 23, 2020, 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). Daviess County, Kentucky P001811 Categories: Places

County in northwestern Kentucky. Seat at Owensboro. Located on the Ohio River.

37.7742, -87.1133 Lee A. Dew, "Daviess County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 254-55. “Owensboro, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 23, 2020, 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. Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky 1863-01-23 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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Owensboro Ky Jany 23d 1863 His Excellency Gov Robinsoon Dear Sir

A Judgement was Rendered before me a Justice for Daviess County Against William A Mitchell in the Name of the Commonwealth for disturbing Religious worship the facts is About this at Church in this community this youth had a falling out with another youth of a different county but it was after the congregation was dismissed And many gone, I was at Church myself And staid until Services was over and I left with many others And it took place after I left A man came and swore out A warrant and the youth became Alarmed and came forward and confessedand confessed Judgement the Judgement Rendered was for ten Dollars being the lowest amount ,Those present think he did little or no wrong And have gotten up A petition to your Honor for his Relief All of which is Respectfully Submitted

I am sir very Respectfully &c J. A. Robertson J P