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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-0001-029-0540 R4-357 to R4-358

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. Jackson McClain (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and banker) N00000839 1816-10-05 1892-12-02 Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and banker. Henderson County native. Son of James McClainMarried Maria L. Watson McClain in 1841. Father of Ann C. McClain. Farmer in Henderson County in 1850 and 1860. Owned forty-three enslaved persons in 1850 and seventy-three in 1860. Director of Farmer’s Bank. President of the Farmer’s Bank in 1862.

Relationships Political: Archibald Dixon, Sr. (Henderson, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and planter) Political: Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), 813-814; Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 5, Indiana, Arnold-Woodson, (1936), p. 189-192, https://www.loc.gov/item/mesn050/ (accessed February 2, 2017); Find A Grave, "Col. Jackson McClain (1816-1892)," Memorial #85736278, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=85736278 (accessed July 28, 2017); Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 282; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 52; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 17-18; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Upper Town, p. 20. William S. Sloan (Petitioner in Henderson, Kentucky) N00000842 Categories: People

Petitioner in Henderson, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Political: Archibald Dixon, Sr. (Henderson, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and planter) Political: Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

KYR-0001-029-0540. Decius C. Priest (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer, constable, and sheriff) N00000840 1818? Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer, constable, and sheriff. Kentucky native. Son of John H. Priest. Married Martha H. Butler Priest on January 23, 1855. Father of Dora Priest, Elizabeth Priest, Virginia Priest, and John Priest. Farmer in Henderson County in 1850 and 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in 1860. Constable for Henderson County from 1856 to 1857. Sheriff of Henderson County in 1861. Farmer in Henderson County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Jackson McClain (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter and banker) Legal: Nathaniel G. Standley, Sr. (Henderson County, Kentucky, planter) Legal: William S. Sloan (Petitioner in Henderson, Kentucky)

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, KY: n.p., 1887), 822-823, 829, 831; Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1852-1910, Ancestry, Marriages, Henderson County, 1855; Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Henderson County, Kentucky, July 1863, p. 18, (Accessed via ancestry.com); Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Session of the General Assembly Which Was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the Fourth Day of December, 1865 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, 1866), ch. 657, p. 579; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1, p. 583; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 27; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 2, p. 5; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Curdsville, p. 54.. 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. Grant Green (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, Kentucky Secretary of State, and Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts) N00000466 1826-02-03 1898-07-06 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and auditor. Henderson County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Green and Martha Dixon Green. Married to Catharine "Kitty" Smith Overton Green in Frankfort, Kentucky, on February 28, 1855. Father of Henry D. Green, Eliza O. Green, and Grant Green, Jr. Deputy Sheriff of Henderson County, Kentucky, from 1848 to 1851. Clerk in Henderson County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Henderson County from 1851 to 1852. Attorney in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Auditor of public accounts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1865.

Relationships Social: Thomas Edwin Moore (Pendleton County, Kentucky, clerk and captain 4th KY Cav CSA) Political: John H. McBrayer (Anderson County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Economic: Noah N. Johnson (Webster County, KY, farmer and sheriff) Political: Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts of Kentucky Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Political: William M. Northrip (Russell Co, Ky, farmer and captain (U.S.A.)) Political: Jacob A. Williams (Russell County attorney ) Political: Joseph Elzie Hays (Russell County, Kentucky, attorney and slaveholder. ) Political: William Reynolds (Resident of Mount Vernon, Kentucky) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: John Cummins (sheriff, rockcastle county) Political: James Henry Garrard (Franklin County, Kentucky, salt maker and Kentucky state treasurer) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, District 1, p. 280A-B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 238. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 488B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 96B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Franklin County, KY, July 1863, p. 5. "Grant Green Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 7, 1898, p. 9. “Grant Green (1826-1898),” Find A Grave, Memorial 63467817, accessed May 24, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63467817. 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. 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, Henderson County, Kentucky 1863-08-10 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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Henderson Kentucky Aug 10th 1863 Hon James F Robinson Gov of Kentucky Frankfort Ky Dr. sir

Jackson McClain Wm S Sloan & W S Stanley securities of Dacius Prost Lat sheriff of Henderson Co. have Petitioned your Excellency to remit the damages assessed against them as securities of said shriff, Judgement was rendered against ^them^ for this $2,650 & some cents for damages -- they will pay the principle & interest & desire the damages remitted -- the facts set forth in the petition are true, the Petitioners are most worthy & respectable gentlemen -- We believe the case is one in which the Executive should intepose -- we therefore respectfully request your Excellency to remit the damages aforesaid

We have the honor to be your obt sert L W Powell Archd Dixon

Amt Judgment$13.253.83.Damages2.650.96Costs8.05

Principal Int. & costs paid Aug 25th 1863. Att Grant Green Audr