<title type="main">Alvis Burnett to Beriah Magoffin Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 2 edits between June 22, 2025 and June 22, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.

 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0723 MG19-127

1861-03-18 Petition English 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.
1

To His Excellency the Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your petitioner Alves Burnett would Respectfully represent that at the last November election He and Some other Young Men was engaged in a political discussion in which a fist fighte insued in which your petitioner partisipated for the purpose of rescuing or Saving a relation from Serious injury

your petitioner acted under excitement and may of acted imprudently at the time for which he was Tride before N B Jones Judge of Laurel County Court and fined four dollars He states that there was no Injury done in the fight that this is the only fight or dificulty that he ever had that he is a poore boy has no means to Spair To pay the fine altho the amount is Small

He therefore asks that the fine be remitted

Alvis Burnett

Sworn to before me by Alves Burnett the 18th day of March 1861

N. B. Jones J. L. C. C

we are well acquainted with Alvis Burnett know him to be a young man of good morals and never herd of his having a dificulty with any one except the one here referred To,

Levi Jackson N. B. Jones J. L. C. C

2

Remitted B. M Laurel Co Ct $4 Alvis Burnett IssdApr 4. 1861