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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-0001-029-0515 R4-319

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. Benjamin Singleton (Marshall County, Indiana, farmer and soldier) N00000959 1838? 1862-12-16 Categories: People

Marshall County, Indiana, farmer and soldier. Indiana native. Married to Dovey Elizabeth Singleton on September 13, 1859. Father of Francis L. Singleton and Niles A. Singleton. Farm laborer in Marshall County, Indiana, in 1860. Private in the 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment from August 1862 to December 1862. Died of disease at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 17, 1862.

Relationships Legal: Adam Rankin (Henderson County, Kentucky, court clerk) Legal: John Tuell (Henderson, Kentucky, bricklayer) Legal: Robert Walter Agnew (Henderson County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Royal Utley (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: David N. Walden (Henderson County, Kentucky, constable and surveyor) Legal: William Bervl Smith (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Leonard Bentley, Sr. (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William A. McClanahan (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Alvan Levin Jones (Henderson County, Kentucky, store clerk) Legal: John H. Lambert (Henderson County, Kentucky, blacksmith) Legal: John B. Clay (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Asa F. Parker (Henderson County, Kentucky, brick mason and brick maker) Legal: William J. Marshall, Sr. (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter) Legal: Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician) Legal: Henderson Circuit Court Military: United States Army

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, p. 477; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall County, Polk, p. 10; Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans who served between 1861 and 1900, Civil War Pensions Index, Ancestry; U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962, Ancestry, Nashville, Tennessee National Cemetery, 1862; Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 - ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, NARA Catalog ID 300020, Roll WC134434-WC134466; Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. VI (Indianapolis: samuel M. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 191. Milton Young (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician) N00000958 1816? 1863-01 Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Maria Thompson Young. Father of Elizabeth Young, Stephen A. Young, John Young, Milton Young, M. E. Young, Adison Young, Thomas B. Young, Alice Young, Stanley Young, Arabell Young, and Mary E. Young. Planter in Union County, Kentucky, in 1850. Planter in Henderson County in 1860. Owned thirty-eight enslaved persons in 1850 and forty-one in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 493. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District No. 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 41. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 9-10. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 335. Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), p. 697. 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). John Young Brown (Hardin County, Kentucky, attorney and US House Rep, ) N00000815 1835-06-28 1904-01-11 Categories: People

Hardin County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Dudley Brown and Elizabeth (Young) Brown. Married Lucie Barbee Brown in 1857. Married to Rebecca Dixon Brown in 1860. Father of Elizabeth Cabell Brown, Archibald Dixon Brown, John Young Brown, Jr., Virginia Singleton Brown, Susan Dixon Brown, and Evelyn Brown. Resident of Hardin County in 1850. Household owned twelve enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1850. Graduated from Centre College in Boyd County, Kentucky, in 1855. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1857. Practiced law in Hardin County and Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Democratic member from the Fifth Congressional District of Kentucky of the United States House of Representatives from 1860 to 1861. Member of the Stephen A. Douglas National Committee in 1860. Attorney in Hardin County in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Hardin County in 1860.

Relationships 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)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, Northern District, p. 305A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (185), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 106A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, 3rd Ward City Henderson, p. 16. Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, City of Henderson 2d Ward, p. 11. “Brown, John Young,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 9, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000933. “Brown, John Young,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 129-30. “Ex-Gov. John Young Brown,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 12, 1904. “Sleep: Of Dealth Fall Upon Hon. John Young Brown. . .,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), January 12, 1904. Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician) N00000830 1812-10-06 1867-07-03 Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Married to Harriet Anne Jennings Powell. Father of James Henry Powell, John Rowan Powell, Anne Powell, Charles J. Powell, and Richard Powell. Graduated from the St. Joseph College in Nelson County, Kentucky, in 1833. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington. Admitted to the bar in 1835. Attorney in Henderson County, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Henderson County in 1836. Member of the Democratic Party. Presidential Elector for the Democratic Party in 1844. Attorney in Henderson County in 1850. Owned sixty-nine enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Member of the United States Senate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1865. Attorney in Henderson County in 1860. Owned fifty-six enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860.

Relationships Political: William Owsley Boyle (Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier - Lt. Col. 11th Ky. Cav.)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Town of Henderson, District 1, p. 271A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Town of Henderson, District 1. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Town of Henderson, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division No 1, p. 35. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division No 1, p. 155A-B. “Powell, Lazarus Whitehead,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000481, accessed January 10, 2017. Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 403. “The Death of Hon. Lazarus W. Powell,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), July 6, 1897. “Powell, Lazarus Whitehead,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 731-732. 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/. Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Tennessee P001001 Categories: Places

State in the southeastern United States. Capital at Nashville. Located on the Cumberland River.

35.5175, -86.5804 Paul H. Bergeron, Stephen V. Ash, and Jeanette Keith, Tennesseans and Their History (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999), 69. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Tennessee," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on August 14, 2019). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. 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. United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky 1863-08-18 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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 Aug 18th 1863 To His Excellency J. F. Robinson Sir:

At the Decr term of the Henderson Circuit Court, Benj Singletonwas tried under the charge of grand larceny, & the jury, failing to agree, he was bailed in the sum of $500x -- Milton Young decd becoming his surety. He failed to appear at the June term 1863, in discharge of his bond, & it was taken as forefeited.

Singleton, when indicted, was in the Federal service, having enlisted in Indiana, of which state he was a citizen, & was a mere boy. His witnesses were members of his regiment. & during the court at which he was tried, were removed from this county to Tennessee. On the trial a majority of the jury were in favor of his acquittal.

In Jany last, Milton Young, who became Singleton's surety frome mere kindness -- died, whilst on his way to Frankfort, to attend the legislature, of which he was a member. a widow & eleven children survive him, & it will be a great hardship on them, if compelled to pay off this bond.

We think this a case that commends itself to your clemency, & respectfully & urgently entreat you to remit the forfeiture --

Yr Obt Svts.. S B Vance & John Young Brown Admrs of Milton Young decd

P S No judgment has been rendered on the bond. & the Comlths Atty has no interest in it -- Resptfully V &. B

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Henderson Ky Aug. 17.th 1863 Dr Govnor

The facts in this case are correctly set forth in this letter -- I think the case one in which the executive should interfere -- I therefore respect^fully^ request your Excellency to grant the relief asked

Your friend L W Powell