Petition

James Cutburth to Beriah Magoffin

1862-01-30

Date of Creation
January 30, 1862
Place of Creation
Whitley County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG22-314 to MG22-315
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1652
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32210060

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Dates
1862-01
1862-01-30
1862-03-06
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James Cutburth to Beriah Magoffin, 1862-01-30, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1652 (November 13, 2026).

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To the excelence of Beria Magoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner James Cutburth wold Respectifull Represent to your exelence that at the January term of the Whitley Quarterly ^courte^ 1862 that they was a warret Returned against him for Keeping a tipling hous and that a judgment was Render against the your petitioner for the sum of $60,, Your petitioner states that he had ben a tavern Keeper for some time and that a few day's previous to the Whitley his licens had expired he states that he had no intention of violating the law and you petitioner state that he is a pore man and has if he has to pay said fine that he it will put him in greate troble and cause him to sacefise his property he states that it will be a mater of greate charity to Remit said fine he prays your Petitioner excelence to Remit said fine and for all proper Releaf

James Cutburth

James Cutburth says he beleaves the statements, in the foregoing petition he beleaves to be true

James Cutbirth
Sworn to before me by James Cutbirth this the 30 day of January 1862
L D Sutton P J W C

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The under signed says that they believe that it wold be a mater ^act^ of charity to Remit said fine

John Smith

J. C. Foley
william [peablr]
W. H. Wilson
D H Leforce
James M Siler
S P Braunn
A. C. King
A F. Campbell
Samuel Denham
H. S. Tye
W G Tye

I believe you would be doing nothing wrong by remitting the within fine and that your course in so doing would be endorsed by this community

B. Boyd

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Remitted
B. M.

Remission made outMarch 6" 1862 N G,
$60.