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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-0001-029-0569 R4-402

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. Stephen Brydon (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005402 1814? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Hetty L. Brydon. Father of Mary T. Brydon, Harriet Brydon, and Ellen H. Brydon. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850 and 1860.

Relationships Political: B. Jacoby (Franklin County, Kentucky, clother) Political: Max Dinkespiel (Likely Franklin County resident) Political: James Sullivan (Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant) Political: William C. Scott (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: James J. Long (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 14. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 31. James J. Long (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005411 1823? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Long. Married to Nancy Long.

Relationships Social: Stephen Brydon (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Samuel P. Alexander (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 7. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 42. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Peaks Mill, p. 9. William C. Scott (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) N00005422 1829? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Ellen Scott. Father of William Scott and John Scott. Farmer in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Franklin County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Stephen Brydon (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 4. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 47. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Peaks Mill, p. 38. James Sullivan (Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant) N00005426 1834? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Horace W. Sullivan and Maria L. B. Sullivan. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Merchant in Franklin County in 1860.

Relationships Social: Stephen Brydon (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 4. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 47. Max Dinkespiel (Likely Franklin County resident) N00005428 Categories: People

Signed a petition for Stephen Brydon.

Relationships Social: Stephen Brydon (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

KYR-0001-029-0569. B. Jacoby (Franklin County, Kentucky, clother) N00005435 1832? Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, clother. Native of Hesse. Married to Barbary Jacoby. Father of Joseph Jacoby and Rosenna Jacoby.

Relationships Social: Stephen Brydon (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 84. 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. Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. 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 the Most Excellent Govoner of Ky Jas. F. Robinson this petition is by the friends of Stephen Brydon we believe mr Brydon ^deserves interferencence and^ that we are doing right to interfere in his behalf and would most earnestly desire your behelp or would ask your interference that is to remit four fines against him the judgement was given against him Febr Term Finding him in four diferent cases for selling Licquor not according to law sixty ^dollars^ each making two hundred and forty dollars he is not able to work and we believe he knew not the consequences of selling not according to law

Jas J Long W C Scott Jas Sullivan Max Dinkespiel B. Jacoby

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Stephen Brydon

Pettn to remit fine selling liquor Refused