Early Governors' Papers

To his Excellency The Governor of Tennessee at Nashville

Wm Harris Decr 4 1827

Harris Decem 4. 1827.

or incorrigable youth, but fully believe him to be the reverse:

The undersigned, therefore, humbly petition your Excellency, (all the above circumstances con= sidered,) to grant a pardon to the said Tyre D. on whom the judgement of Court is already passed. And from a charitable exercise of that humane prerogative of your Excellency, we do hope & believe that the unfortunate youth, will be well taught how the future conduct of his life, must be shaped

Nashville Nov 10^th 1818.

Thos. Deaderick Geo. B M^cNeill A. Morison

Edmund Owen Greenwood Payne W^m Harris Wilson Williams Thomas Hopper Absolom Page Jacob Dickinson D [illegible]

others contrary to the force of the statute in such case made and provided against the peace and dignity of the State Thos. Washington Attorney General of the 7^th district in said state

And the said Tyree D Greene was led to the bar in custody of the Sheriff of Davidson County and thereupon being charged pleaded not guilty to the Indictment aforesaid and for his trial put himself upon the Country and the Solicitor General for the State likewise. Whereupon came a jury of good and lawful men to wit David Vaughn. Edmund Owen Wilson Williams. Jacob Dickerson, Thomas Hopper Absolom Page. George M^cNeill, Thomas Deaderick Greenwood Payne, Andrew Morrison, W^m Harris and Benj^m P. Person who being elected tried and sworn the truth of and upon the premises to speak and having tried the evidence on their oath do say that the said Tyree D Greene is guilty of the horse stealing in manner and form as in the Indictment aforesaid [a?] commend the said Tyree D Greene to the mercy of the Executive - and it being demanded of the said Tyree D Greene if any thing for himself he had or could say why the Court here to judgement of and upon the premises ought not to proceed said he had nothing but what he had before said - Therefore the premises being seen and fully understood - It is considered by the Court that the said Tyree D Greene receive ten lashes on his bare back. that he be brand-