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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-0001-029-0285 R3-418 to R3-419

Dixon, Webster County, Kentucky Dixon, Webster County, Kentucky 1863-03 Petition English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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To his Excelency Jas. F. Robinson Gov. of the Commonwealth of Ky.

The undersigned citizens of Webster County, Ky, would state & most respectfully represent unto your Excelency that the Webster Circuit at its present March Term, co-mencing on the 9th day of March 1863 entered a Judgement against one Micager Cobb for penal sum of $2000 upon a charge of Selling liquor by retail without a licen therefor

They would state that said "liquor' was retailed at a sale that said Cobb before selling siad Liquor as charged asked & obtained the permission of N, N, Johnson the owner of the adjacent premises. That said Johnson granted to said Cobb the privildge of selling upon his land & told him that he would not be violating the Law in so doing & that said Cobb having further consulted one a Justice of the peace in & for Webster county & being instructed by him in substance that if he (Cobb) had obtained the permission of Johnson to sell Liquor by retail on his Johnsons land ^that^ the he would not Violate the Law in so doing

They state that said Cobb has ever been a peaceful orderly & quiet citizens -- that he is a very poor man -- That he has a large & helpless family ^entirely^ dependent upon him for support & that they verily believe that said Cobb acted in the foregoing premise in honest faith believing that he was violating no Law & committing no wrong

Wherefore your petitioners would most

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respectfully ask that said fine be remitted

Fondly hoping that your Excelency upon a due due consideration of the premises will take such action as is herein asked (in remitting said fine &c) yours petitioners will ever pray &c Dixon Ky. March 1863

John F. Galbraith

J. E. Price John Brown A W Mooney g w Morgan Dan Christian Thomas W Colby Dabney N Trice Wm M Jennings John Oakley T, J, Cates Allen Rabon Anthoney Williams C C Buckman H. L. Bell N M Couch Elisha Marks A Cater Sen. Willeford Jenkins James, H, Price Robt P. Cole W. F. Thornton G, W, Cook John. G. Bailey J. D. Couch Jr. Wm Blackwell B, S, Ruby William Herron L D Orr Joseph Dye Jno Stephen Timmons Robert Cates Jas B F. White Samuel S Henry Wesley Haren James S blackwell Thomas, J, Trice G W Newman John Marks W. D. Bailey J H Bumpass, J. P. James Marshal M. D. E, J, Sigler Wm T. Trice J. W Chandler E A Price Alexander Cates E Skinner T L Tompkins R Brrus

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B. Vinson Vaughn D, C, Cozort John Jenkins Thos Lynn D, C, Yarbrough S. G. Carlet Edward Owen W. W. Gentry Wm Allen N N Johnson Will H. Biggs D Guard Wm F, Morehead T J White N T Dunken J, Gibson Thomas Ford A C watson E, B, Smith E S Duncan William D. Duncan Thomas Pinston Jas M Rice John Stone G A Powell John A B Stone John Pritchett Jr Pitman Stone Sidney, H, Marshall William Handley Bengmon Crowley John Martin J,, Gipson Lishe Russell W M Pirtchett Sargent Pritchett John T. Clayton Jef Gipson Thomas Cobbs John T Gibson H. Donhoo H W Harris Thomas Hazle Wm Tapp Thos K. Newman James Ford Elias Morehed Wm Price Edmund Stone James F Stone W. I. Ruark Geo W Ridder W F Taylor G. W. Tapp J. M. Bourland J W Tapp Edmond Jones J T Lills W Litlepage J P Buchanan B, D, Winstead Sam B Granfield