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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-0001-029-0211 R3-321 to R3-322

Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky Mount Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky 1863-01-26 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 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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Mount Vernon Jan 26th 1862 [1863] Gov Robinso

Dear Sir I have no doubt but the statements in the foregoing petition are true in addition I will state that if I had the power I would remit the fine. My conscious convictions are that Granville Watts has done everything that he could do to suppress this Rebelion and never did do any thing that favored the Rebbls and when he did let the soldier have the spirits he done it to preserve the balanance of his property and as a necesity to preserve his own

Granville Pearl Judge of the 12th Judicial Dist of Ky

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To his Excellency The Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Granville Watts respectfully showeth & represents that at the August Term of the Rockcastle Circuit Court ^1862^ that he confessed Jugt. for $20. & cast upon an Indictment against him for keeping a tipling-houseretailing ardent spirits -- that he settled with the Aty for the Com'lth & his fee and had a petition drawn & forwarded to your Excellency Signed ^by^ the Circuit Judge & the Atty for the Commonwealth -- but never having heard from his petition. he supposes the same is lost or owing to some cause has never come to hand. and as the Circuit Judge is now a here on a visit your petitioner has concluded to forward this other petition; He alledges in this as in his former petition that the offense charged against him was unavoidable if an offense at all; He was a merchant at the time living on the State road west of Mount Vernon & other whilst the soldiers of both Armies passed in thousands: and he had some spirits to sell; which he sold under the Law not by the small, but when the Soldiers called on him he he was forced to let them to have it in any quanty they desired. which he done. getting nothing for it Generally -- under the circumstances he prays a remission of the fine.

Very respectfully Granville Watts

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Rockcastle Cir. Ct

Lewis Buckner Pett for remmit fine

$20 } Liquor

The fine in this case is remitted J F Robinson

IsdFeby 9 1863