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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-0001-029-0510 R4-313

Henderson, Henderson 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. Henry Raines (Indicted in the Henderson Circuit Court) N00007333 Categories: People

Indicted in the Henderson Circuit Court in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Lafayette F. Jones (Henderson County, Kentucky, physician) Legal: James Beatty (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: Lafayette F. Jones (Henderson County, Kentucky, physician) Economic: James Beatty (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer)

KYR-0001-029-0510. James Beatty (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter) N00000955 1802? Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, planter. Pennsylvania native. Married to Judith Towles Beatty on May 19, 1857. Father of Fanney D. Beatey. Step-father of Nannie Toweles, Mattie Towles, Mattie Towles, Thomas Towles, and Bettier Towles. Owned twenty-three enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Political: Samuel B. Vance, Sr. (Henderson, Kentucky, minister, attorney and city council advisor)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson, Division 1, p. 50; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 44-45; Jordan Dodd, Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry, Henderson County, Kentucky, May 19, 1857. Lafayette F. Jones (Henderson County, Kentucky, physician) N00000956 1826-04-12 1866-10-11 Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Ann B. Pollitt Jones on March 23, 1852. Father of L. P. Jones and Mary Jones. Physician in Henderson County in 1850 and 1860.

Relationships Political: Samuel B. Vance, Sr. (Henderson, Kentucky, minister, attorney and city council advisor)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 2, p. 344; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 36; Find A Grave, "Dr. Lafayette Jones (1826-1866)," Memorial #84689782, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84689782 (accessed July 31, 2017); Jordan Dodd, Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry, Henderson County, Kentucky, March 23, 1852. Samuel B. Vance, Sr. (Henderson, Kentucky, minister, attorney and city council advisor) N00000957 1830? 1901-07-15 Categories: People

Henderson, Kentucky, minister, attorney and city council advisor. Tennessee native. Married Nannie "Ann" E. Dixon Vance on November 21, 1854. Father of Cordelia Vance, Robert Vance, Mary Vance, Samuel B. Vance, Jr., and Andrew Vance. Graduated from Cumberland University in Tennessee in 1849. Minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1849 and 1850. Attorney in Henderson in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Advisor to the Henderson City Council from 1858 to 1859 and 1862 to 1866.

Relationships Legal: Henry Raines (Indicted in the Henderson Circuit Court) Economic: Henry Raines (Indicted in the Henderson Circuit Court) Legal: Henderson Circuit Court Economic: Henderson Circuit Court Legal: Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician) Social: Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician) Political: Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Social: William H. Brown (Webster County, Kentucky, farmer.)

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), p. 374; Jordan Dodd, Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry, Henderson County, Kentucky, November 21,1854; U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924, Ancestry, Cumberland College, 1852. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Todd County, District 2, p. 287; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 35; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 33; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, Ward 4, p. 31; Find A Grave, "Samuel B. Vance (1830-1901)," Memorial #85260955, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85260955 (accessed July 28, 2017). Henderson, Kentucky P001815 Categories: Places

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

37.8362, -87.59 Boynton Merill Jr., "Henderson," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000), p. 423-24. “Henderson, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 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. Henderson Circuit Court O00000397 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 14th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): William P. Fowler. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): L. M. Low, John Barrett, and Benjamin P. Cissell. Clerk(s): T. J. Hopkins and Adam Rankin.

Relationships Economic: Adam Rankin (Henderson County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: Richard M. Overfield (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Mariah Dixon (henderson county) Legal: Benjamin Singleton (Marshall County, Indiana, farmer and soldier) Legal: Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician) Legal: Ambrose H. Talbott (Henderson County merchant) Legal: Thomas W. Dixon (farmer, henderson county, KY) Legal: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Tuell (Henderson, Kentucky, bricklayer) Legal: James H. Priest (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer. ) Legal: Thomas Eblen (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: James E. Fagan (Henderson County, Kentucky, plasterer.) Legal: Alfred Oliver (Henderson County, Kentucky, carpenter and farmer.) Legal: Radford Dunn (Henderson County, Kentucky, overseer and farmer.) Legal: Andrew W. Agnew (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: George W. Hunter (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: John W. Chetham (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: James T. Hicks (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: James H. Farley (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Thomas W. Powell (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: John James Towles (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: John Agar, Jr (Henderson County, Kentucky, bricklayer.) Legal: Asa F. Parker (Henderson County, Kentucky, brick mason and brick maker) Legal: Tingnal J. Hopkins (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer and bookkeeper.) Legal: George Frederick "Fred" Pentecost (Christian County, Kentucky, clerk, soldier, minister.) Legal: George A. Sugg (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff.) Legal: Wiley P. Fowler (Livingston County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Robert G. Beverley (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer and merchant.) Legal: Henry Lyne (Henderson County, Kentucky, clerk and farmer.) Legal: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Legal: Willis Lago (Woodford County, Kentucky, fugitive from the law) Legal: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major) Legal: Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.) Legal: John B. Major (Frankfort, Kentucky, state printer) Legal: Edward Henry Hobson (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, saddler, Brig. Genl) Legal: William H. Spencer (Adair County, Kentucky, druggist; adj, maj, lt colo, & colo 3rd Ky Inf USA) Legal: James Wilson (Henderson County, Kentucky, prisoner) Legal: William Gardner Capps (Rockcastle County, Kentucky, student and corporal (U.S.A.)) Legal: F. G. Nall (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, resident)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-308. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306. “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document 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,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350. Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky 1863-08-21 Petition English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. 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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Henderson, Ky, Aug 21st/63 His Excellency, James. F. Robinson Governor of Kentucky Sir:

Your petitioners state that they were sureties on the recognizance of one Henry, Raines, for his appearance to answer an indictment against him in the Henderson Circuit Court for a misdemeanor, The indictment was tried and judgment rendered against Raines thereon for the sum of twenty dollars -- He having failed to appear, judgment was at rendered against these petitioners on his recognizance for the sum of fifty dollars & costs, They enclose herewith a statement of the judgments certified by the clerk of the court, They are willing to pay the amount of the judgment against Raines, which was all the Commonwealth would have demanded of him had he appeared, They feel assured that she is not disposed to speculate on them for his absence, which of itself is a gain to her, They therefore respectfully petition your Excellency to remit the excess of the judgment against them, over that against Raines -- And they will ever pray &c,

James Beatty L. F. Jones

I was attorney for the defense in these cases -- and know the facts as set forth to be true -- both as to the judgments and the character of Raines --

S. B. Vance

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Henderson Cir. Ct $50. } Recog Beatty & Jones Iss Aug 25, 1863

Judgement against sureties remitted except Twenty dollars & costs

J F Robinson