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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-0001-029-0536 R4-352

Hopkinsville, Christian 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. Sarah Ann Hord Myers (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer) N00000435 1807-03-23 1873-12-29 Categories: People

Christian County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to David Myers. Resident of Christian County in 1850. Farmer in Christian County in 1860.

Relationships Social: E. Hord (Resident of Christian County, Kentucky,) Social: Christopher A. Biggerstaff (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: James Ducker (Resident of Christian County, Kentucky) Legal: Daniel S. Hays (Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public) Political: Daniel S. Hays (Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 413; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, p. 142; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Fruit Hill Precinct, p. 31; Joan McCarty, “Hord Cemetery,” http://www.westernkyhistory.org/christian/cemetery/hord.html (accessed February 23, 2017); KYR-0001-029-0532. Daniel S. Hays (Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public) N00000439 1796? 1872-12-14 Categories: People

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public. Virginia native. Married to Jane Hays on January 24, 1826. Father of John W. Hays, Mary L. Hays, Martha J. Hays, Henry Clay Hays, James D. Hays, Victoria Hays, and Daniel S. Hays, Jr. Corporal in Captain George McAfee's Company of Kentucky Militia in the War of 1812 from November 1814 to May 1815. Christian County Justice of the Peace. Christian County sheriff from 1847 to 1849. Owned one enslaved person in 1850. Attorney in Christian County in 1850 and 1860. Served as a notary public for the Commonwealth of Kentucky at-large in 1865.

Relationships Political: Sarah Ann Hord Myers (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer)

William Henry Perrin, ed., Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), p. 56-57, 95-96. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 487. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 20. War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815, Ancestry, roll no. 43. Hopkinsville, Kentucky P00002431 Categories: Places

Seat of Christian County, Kentucky.

36.8656, -87.4886 "Hopkinsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. William T. Turner, "Hopkinsville," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 440-41. Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky 1863-08-21 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Hopkinsville Kentucky Augt 21st 1863 His Excellency James F Robinson Dear Sir

I am well acquainted with the Petitioner Mistress Sarah Ann Myres and am satisfied she never kept liquor for sale --

I heard the testamony of the witnesses in Court and their manner of testifying satisfied me they were governed by a malicious motive in bringing the affair into Court, there seemed not to be a good feeling on the part of the Witnesses towards Mistress Myres, --

I want all Just fines (these war times) Collected but I am so well Satisfied of the unjustness of this one that I would humbly ask for executive Clemency

Your friend &c

D. S. Hays