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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-0001-029-0537 R4-353 to R4-354

Paris, Bourbon 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. Willoughby Sanford Scott (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer and slave trader) N00000520 1815? Categories: People

Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer and slave trader. Kentucky native. Married Margaret A. Lindsay Scott. Father of Lucinda Scott, Mary E. Scott, and Louisa Scott. Farmer in Bourbon County in 1850. Slave trader in Paris, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Political: George Parker (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 292; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 3; KYR-0001-029-0537. George Parker (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer) N00000525 1795-07-06 1874-06-28 Categories: People

Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer. Maryland native. Married to Lucy Ann Parker. Father of Henrietta Parker, James Parker, Cirilla Parker, Charles E. Parker, George A. Parker, John T. Parker, Amelia C. Parker, William V. Parker, and Lou Parker. Farmer in Bourbon County in 1850 and 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Political: Richard H. Hanson (Paris, Kentucky, attorney) Political: B. F. Patten (Signed a petition in Paris, Kentuckyy) Political: James W. Ingels (Paris, Kentucky, resident) Political: George W. Williams (Bourbon, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Political: Robert Trimble Davis, Sr. (Paris, Kentucky, attorney)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 313; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 56; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 28; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, Ward 1, p. 6; Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1852-1910, Ancestry, Deaths, Bourbon County, Kentucky, June 28, 1874; Find A Grave, "George Parker (1795-1874)," Memorial #115841606, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115841606 (accessed August 18, 2017). Robert Trimble Davis, Sr. (Paris, Kentucky, attorney) N00000528 1829? 1874-12-15 Categories: People

Paris, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Garrett Davis and Eliza J. Davis. Married Martha H. Davis. Father of Mary H. Davis, Rebecca T. Davis, Robert T. Davis, Jr., and Garrett Davis. Resident of Bourbon County in 1850. Attorney in Paris, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Bourbon County from 1865 to 1869.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 289; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 37; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 9; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, Ward 2, p. 24; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), p. 66; Find A Grave, "Robert Trimble Davis (1829-1874)," Memorial #39318711, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=39318711 (accessed August 18, 2017). George W. Williams (Bourbon, Kentucky, attorney and politician) N00000535 1801-10-07 1870-01-30 Categories: People

Bourbon County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of Roger Williams and Mary Kerfoot Williams. Married to Winifred Ware Webb Williams in Bourbon County on March 25, 1824. Father of Ben F. Williams, Nancy Williams, Nancy Williams, Winifred Williams, George Ann Williams, Louisa K. Williams, Fanny Conn Williams, and Charles Anna Williams. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Studied law under Judge Benjamin Mills and admitted to the bar in Bourbon County. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1829 to 1830, 1836, and 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1846 to 1850. Member of the Whig Party. Bourbon County representative to the Kentucky Constitutional Convention of 1849. Founder and president of the Deposit Bank of Paris in 1851. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. Rejected the nomination of the Prohibitionists Party for governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1855. Member of the American ("Know Nothing") Party. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Law partner of John A. Prall in Bourbon County. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1860. Member of the Republican Party. President of the first Republican Party State Convention in 1864.

Relationships Social: Lewis Cheek (Franklin County, Kentucky, grocer.) Legal: Bourbon Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 271A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 271. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 499. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 143A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 98-101. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 771-72. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000183145. "An Act to Incorporate the Deposit Bank of Paris, Bourbon County," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: A. G. Hodges & Co., State Printer, 1851), 273-81. "George W. Williams (1801-1870)," Find A Grave, Memorial 130074484, accessed May 19, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130074484. James W. Ingels (Paris, Kentucky, resident) N00000750 1810-05-06 1887-07-02 Categories: People

Paris, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of Boone Ingels. Married to Amanda Crose Ingels in 1835. Father of Benjamin Ingels, Wilson H. Ingels, Boone Ingels, Ella Ingels, Mary E. Ingels, Alice Ingels, Isabella Ingels, and George A. Ingels. Married to Mary E. Davis Ingels on January 20, 1857. Father of Lizzie Ingels. Relocated to Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1832. Employee of Fosythe & Butler from 1832 to 1834. Resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1850 and 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in 1850 and nine in 1860. His wife, Mary, owned four additional enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the Christian Church in Bourbon County.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 264; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 31; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 6; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, Ward 1, p. 2; William Henry Perrin, ed., History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison, and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago, IL: O. L. Baskin and Company, 1882), p. 472-473; Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1852-1910, Ancestry, Marriages, Bourbon County, Kentucky, January 20, 1857. Jesse A. Talbott (Signed a petition in Paris, Kentucky) N00000751 Categories: People

Signed a petition in Paris, Kentucky, in 1863.

KYR-0001-029-0537. B. F. Patten (Signed a petition in Paris, Kentuckyy) N00000752 Categories: People

Signed a petition in Paris, Kentucky, in 1863.

KYR-0001-029-0537. Richard H. Hanson (Paris, Kentucky, attorney) N00000753 1819-03-18 1893 Categories: People

Bourbon, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Eveline Talbott in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on May 30, 1848. Father of Charles L. Hanson and Richard H. Hanson. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1850. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Lewis Cheek (Franklin County, Kentucky, grocer.) Legal: Bourbon Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 269B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 501. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, Ward 2, p. 436B-437A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000183145. "Richard Hickman Hanson (1819-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98428631, access August 18, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98428631. Paris, Kentucky P00000514 Categories: Places

Seat of Bourbon County, Kentucky.

38.2098, -84.253 H.E. Everman, "Paris," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2000), 709-10. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Paris, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on March 3, 2020). Bourbon County, Kentucky P00000515 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Paris.

38.2171, -84.2279 H.E. Everman, "Bourbon County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, John E Kleber ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 104-05. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bourbon County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 20, 2020). Ohio P001036 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Columbus. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Erie.

39.9612, -82.9988 "Columbus, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Jeff Wallenfeldt, Francis R. Aumann, and George W. Knepper, "Ohio," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Ohio-state. 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. Bourbon Circuit Court O00000350 1793 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 13th Judicial District of Kentucky. Judge(s): William C. Goodloe. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William S. Downey. Clerk(s): James Paton.

Relationships Legal: Robert H. Thompson (Bourbon County) Legal: Samuel Williams (Illinois and Fleming County) Legal: Willoughby Sanford Scott (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer and slave trader) Legal: George Parker (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Jack G. Davis (Convict in the Kentucky State Penitentiary) Legal: William Jones (Frankfort, Kentucky, druggist) Legal: Warren B. Rogers (Bourbon Co) Legal: Jesse H. Boulden (Bourbon Co) Legal: Jeremiah Duncan (Bourbon Co) Legal: Thomas L. Arnold (Bourbon Co merchant) Legal: James K. Jameson (Bourbon Co) Legal: Isral Becraft (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Valentine Hildreth (Bourbon Co) Legal: David M. Dodge (Bourbon Co farmer) Legal: Thomas Stone (Bourbon County, KY, farmer) Legal: Christopher C. Skillman (Bourbon Co farmer) Legal: Francis Hardesty (Bourbon County) Legal: Harvey W. Letton (Bourbon County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: John G. Paton (Deputy Bourbon Co Circuit Court Clerk) Economic: James Paton (Clerk of Bourbon Circuit Court) Legal: John G. Paton (Deputy Bourbon Co Circuit Court Clerk) Legal: James Paton (Clerk of Bourbon Circuit Court) Legal: Herman Hollander (Bourbon County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: E. L. Cowles (Bourbon County, Kentucky, gamer) Legal: Christopher C. Rogers (Bourbon County, Kentucky, trader)

“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), 303-08. “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), 301-06. “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), 347-50. Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky 1863-08-15 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Paris Ky Aug. 15 1863 To His Excellency, James F. Robinson Govenor of the State of Kentucky.

Your petitioners state that the grand-Jury of Bourbon County indicted Willoughby Scott for being a man of "bad fame", that he was arrested and entered into a bond in the sum of two-hundred Dollars ($200) with George A Parker as his surety for his appearance at the April term of Bourbon Circuit Court to answer the indictment against him, that said bond was forfeited at said term, that summons issued against said Parker and judgment was obtained at the July term against said Parker for $200; that there were indictments found by the same grand jury against several other parties for the same offense, that none of them have ever been tried but continued from term to term, that had Scott been present his case would also have been Continued, that said Scott had so acted that he could not appear to answer said "bond" without being liable to arrest by the Military, that in fact he is now in custody of the military authorities in the state of Ohio, that Willoughby Scott is insolvent. Your petitioners therefore pray that you will remit in favor of Geo. A. Parker so

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much of the forfeited bail as goes to the trustee of the Jury fund

R T Davis Geo: M Williams Jas W Ingels

Jesse. H. Talbott

B f Patten R, H, Hanson

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Hon. Jas. F. Robinson Governor of Kentucky

Bourbon Cir. Ct

I am satisfied from reliable statements as well as the Petition that this fine against G. Parker should be & is remitted

J F Robinson

$200 } Recog. Geo. Parker IssdAug 19. 1863