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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-0001-029-0358 R4-76 to R4-77

Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky 1863-05-19 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 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Leitchfield Grayson Co. Ky. May 19th 1863 To his Excellency James F Robbinson Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that James H. Hays of the county & state aforesaid was at this term of the Grayson circuit court fined twenty dollars under an indictment charging him with adultery with a Miss Jane Nichols

He is a soldier in the United States army he belongs to company C, of the 17th Regiment of Ky. volunteers and has fought bravely through the battles of Fort Donaldson and Shiloh and is now at home on furlough sick & reports himself regularly to his regiment & expects to return as soon as his health will permit -- He has been prosecuted very violently by secesh alone maliciously on account of his being a federal soldier & we think under the circumstances that his case deserves the clemency of the governor especially as he is a very poor man and has a wife and four small children depending upon him for support. If you can release him of the fine you will confer a favor upon your petitioners

Robert Good Caleb Stinson

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Charles Wortham Wm S Byers J A Bishop John G Willis W. N. Drane Jas B. Litsey J S Brash Jr Eli Bozarth Capt W Green H. McSheer Parish Garner J R, Barton W. R. Baker Richard Clark S Duvon Wm H Burtte Wm Crawford B J Higdon George howse D F Edlen Sorsam Henderson J, M, McClure T A Hill John Fulkerson J T Howard Joseph Guggins W. M. Myers C McBeath John Deane Pat Sanders R. G. Duncan John Corman

I joined in this Petition on account that Hays has in the fires of Battle been purged of all his inequities

James Stuart Circuit Judge Samuel Hackley Lewis W Hackley James Pruity F S T S Crame James Paston Squire Green Jas Brasher Ezra Wilson I. Dinkelspiel Allen Patterson G, T, Mercr late Capt 3 Ky Cav

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Pettn to remit fine of J. H. Hay & Grayson

Grayson Cir Ct Fine Remitted J F Robinson $20 } Adultery IssdMay 25. 1863