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To his Excellency Andrew B. Moors Governor of the State of Alabama
Where as one Elijah R. Murphree a convict in the Penitentiary of the State of Alabama having a wife & five helpless children & his family being in very Indigent circumstances also that said family had to depend solely upon the labore of Said Murphree for a support & being believing that Said Murphree has been punished
Suffiently for the charge [?] as he was confined in jail for near Two years before his confinment in the Penitentiary & knowing his helpless Situation of his wife & children
We your undersigned petitioners pray your excellency to Release the Said Elijah R Murphree from Said confinement So he may Return home to help make a Support for his family and we you humble petitioners will ever pray [?] this The 12th day of Febuary 1859
S. A Sneed 1 Jason Glidewell 2 W Y M Black 3 [?] [?] 4 Thomas B Trammel 5 Russell Campbell 6
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J. C. Alldredge 7 Wm. Hale 8 William Anderson 9 L. A. Hale 10 William M. Helse[?] 11 James Belsoe 12 Isac S M Murphree 12 R R. Harbison 14 James Sivley 15 Wm Anderton 16 David Kelsoe 17 f M Kelsoe 18 B. H. Sapp 19 C H Red 20 J G Sterling 21
