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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-0001-029-0542 R4-361 to R4-362

Hancock 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. Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) N00004690 1829? Categories: People

Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer. Native of Wales. Married to Ann Humphrey. Father of John Humphrey, W. Humphrey, and Richard Humphrey. Farmer in Hawesville, Kentucky, in 1860. Employed Richard Robinson as a farmhand in Hawesville in 1860.

Relationships Economic: William Herron, Jr. (Hawesville, Kentucky, apprentice saddler) Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: John Chapeze (Ohio County, Kentucky, attorney and Commonwealth's Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of Kentucky) Legal: Eldred Earl Pate (Hancock County, Kentucky, circuit and county court clerk, acting colonel HC Home Guard) Political: Milton Levin Cooper (Hancock County, KY, merchant & postmaster) Political: John McCarty Brown (Hancock County, KY, Presiding Judge and magistrate)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 19. William Herron, Jr. (Hawesville, Kentucky, apprentice saddler) N00004691 1844? Categories: People

Hawesville, Kentucky, apprentice saddler. Native of England. Son of William Herron, Sr., and Ann Herron. Apprentice saddler under M. Carter in Hawesville in 1860.

Relationships Economic: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 1036. William Herron, Sr. (Hawesville, Kentucky, miner) N00004692 1810? Categories: People

Hawesville, Kentucky, miner. Native of England. Married to Ann Herron. Father of [Unknown] Herron, William Herron, Jr., Elias Herron, Jane Herron, Abram Herron, and Robert Herron. Miner in Hawesville, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Familial: William Herron, Jr. (Hawesville, Kentucky, apprentice saddler) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John Chapeze (Ohio County, Kentucky, attorney and Commonwealth's Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of Kentucky)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 1044. KYR-0001-029-0516. [Unknown] Herron (Resident of Hancock County, Kentucky) N00004693 Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, resident. Son of Willliam Herron, Sr. Resident of Hancock County, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Familial: William Herron, Jr. (Hawesville, Kentucky, apprentice saddler) Familial: William Herron, Sr. (Hawesville, Kentucky, miner)

KYR-0001-029-0542. George W. Tully (Deputy clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court) N00004697 Categories: People

Deputy clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer)

KYR-0001-029-0542. Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) N00001812 1822-11-08 Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Ohio County, Kentucky, native. Son of Hardin Haynes and Polly Haynes. Married to Margaret C. Powers Haynes on July 2, 1857. Father of Benjamin Haynes, R. F. Haynes, Henry Haynes, Jr., and Walter Haynes. Educated in Ohio County. Farmer in Hancock County in 1850, 1860, and 1863.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer)

J. H. Battle, W. H. Perrin, & G. C. Kniffin. Kentucky: A History of the State 3rd Ed. (Louisville:Battey Publishing, 1886), 748; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 276; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 57; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Indian Creek, p. 17; 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), Hancock County, KY, 1863, p. 10, (Accessed via ancestry.com). William W. Newman (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004698 1823-06-12 1908-10-12 Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married Catherine C. Newman. Father of Louisa Newman, Edmond E. Newman, Ellen Newman, Fannie Newman, Sarah Newman, and Patsy Newman. Private in the 4th Kentucky Infantry in the Mexican-American War from October 1847 to July 1848. Farmer in Hancock County in 1850, 1860, and 1863.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Temple (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fielding S. Graham (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James M. Connell (Hancock County)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 295; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 57; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 23; 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), Hancock County, KY, 1863, p. 474, (Accessed via ancestry.com); Index To Compiled Service Records Of Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During The Mexican War, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M616, Roll 0027; Find A Grave, "William W. Newman (1823-1908)," Memorial #90196837, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=90196837 (accessed April 14, 2017). James M. Connell (Hancock County) N00004696 1829-05-12 1915-09-03 Categories: People

Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Married to Roxina Connell. Father of Joseph Connell, Holley Connell, Charles Connell, and William Connell.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Temple (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fielding S. Graham (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer)

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 37; Kentucky Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates (1911-1955), Ancestry, 1915, Henderson County, Kentucky, file no. 21912. John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) N00001801 1837? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, resident. Kentucky native. Son of William C. Clark and Mary Clark. Married to Mary I. Voiles Clark on December 30, 1855. Father of Frank Clark, Marcus Clark, and Retus Clark. Resident of Hancock County in 1850.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 592; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Indian Creek, p. 1; Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1852-1910, Ancestry, Marriages, Hancock County, Kentucky, December 30, 1855; KYR-0001-029-0542. Joseph Greathouse (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004700 1834? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Jennie Greathouse. Father of Albert Greathouse. Resident of Hancock County in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Temple (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fielding S. Graham (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James M. Connell (Hancock County) Legal: William W. Newman (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: George Clifton Penn Baker, Sr. (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 280. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 65. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 5. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Lewisport Voting District, p. 2. Fielding S. Graham (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004695 1815? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married Cynthia A. Graham. Father of Nancy Graham, Sarah E. Graham, Charles Graham, and James Graham. Boatman in Hancock County in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Temple (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 285; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 75; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Spencer County, Ohio, p. 39. George Clifton Penn Baker, Sr. (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004699 1811-01-15 1887-04-15 Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married Alice Baker. Father of William Baker, Samuel Bakers, Sarah J. Baker, George C. P. Baker, Jr., Joseph T. Baker, Mary T. Baker, Thomas B. T. Baker, and James Baker. Farmer in Hancock County in 1850 and 1860.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: William Temple (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Fielding S. Graham (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: James M. Connell (Hancock County) Legal: William W. Newman (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 276; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 45; Find A Grave, "George Clifton Penn Baker (1811-1887)," Memorial #86712041, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86712041 (accessed April 14, 2017). Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) N00004114 1795? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer. Married to Drusilla Purcell. Father of William Purcell, Charlotte Purcell, Peter Purcell, Susan Purcell, and Malvina Purcell. Laborer in Hancock County in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Hancock County Home Guard

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Hawesville, p. 17-18. William Temple (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) N00004694 1795? Categories: People

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Catharine Troutman Temple on March 29, 1825. Married to Susan Temple. Father of Cosby Temple, James Temple, Sarah Temple, David Temple, Robert Temple, Joseph Temple, Mary Temple, William Temple, Noah Temple, and Taylor Temple. Farmer in Hancock County in 1850 and 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850.

Relationships Legal: Hancock Circuit Court Legal: Henry E. Haynes (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: John A. Clark (Hancock County, Kentucky, resident) Legal: Roderick Purcell (Hancock County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer) Legal: Ed Humphrey (Hawesville, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 302; Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 269; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 27; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Pellville, p. 2; Jordan Dodd, Kentucky Marriages, 1802-1850, Ancestry, Bullitt County, Kentucky, March 29, 1825. 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. Hancock Circuit Court O00000399 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 3rd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): James Stewart. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Cicero Maxwell and John Chapeze. Clerk(s): James E. Stone, Edward E. Pate, and Eldred E. Pate. Deputy Clerk(s): George W. Jolly.

Relationships Legal: Eldred Earl Pate (Hancock County, Kentucky, circuit and county court clerk, acting colonel HC Home Guard) Legal: John Chapeze (Ohio County, Kentucky, attorney and Commonwealth's Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of Kentucky) Legal: John Egloff (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: Eldred Earl Pate (Hancock County, Kentucky, circuit and county court clerk, acting colonel HC Home Guard) Economic: John Chapeze (Ohio County, Kentucky, attorney and Commonwealth's Attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of Kentucky)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, 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, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. KYR-0001-029-0564. Hancock County, Kentucky 1863-08-12 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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To his Excellency James F Robinson Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Edward Humphry states that he was Indicted and at the present term of the ^Hancock Co^ Hancock Circuit Court found Guilty of the offence of selling liquor to William Herron Jr a Minor under the age of 21 years son of William Herron-- that neither the father nor son could write but before the selling refered to in the Indictment the father of the minor directed an older brother of the Minor to write an order to your petitioner authorizing him to sell to the Minor any liquor he might wish to drink-- this writing was made and delivered to your and was produced in court but the Minor stated that he could neither write nor read writing and athoulg a writing to that effect has been delivered to petitioner, he could not say the one produced in court was the Identical same writing authorised by his father-- the father & Eder son who wrote the authorization had since became non residents of the state of Ky and their evidence could not be processed,-- The court therefore refused allow the paper to go to the Jury and ^he^ was consequently found guilty. He makes copy of the Indictment and Judgment part hereof -- He prays that the fine be remitted

E Humphry

Subscribed & sworn to before me by Edward Humphry this 12 August 1863 --

Geo W Tully D C H C C.

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The undersigned are the Jury who tried the case of the Commonwealth agt Edward Humphers-- and state the foregoing petition is a fair statement of the trial and and conviction They respectfully unite in the petition that said fine be remitted

Henry E Haynes

William Newman

James. M. Connell

John. A Clark

Joseph. Greathouse

F. S. Grayham

G. C. P. Baker

R Purcell

Wm Temple

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E. Humphres To } Petition Governor

Hancock Cir. Ct $50. } liquor to a minor IssdAug 18. 1863

Fine remitted except Ten dollars & the costs

J F Robinson