Early Governors' Papers

State of Tennessee

At a Circuit Court began and holden for the County of Rutherford, at the Court-house in Murfreesborough on the 27th of August 1827.

State of Tennessee vs. Albert F. Keeble

Indictment for Murder -

This day came the said defendant in proper person and the state by the Attorney General of the ninth solicitorial District, and by consent the appeal taken in this case is set aside and held for nothing, Whereupon it is ordered by the Court that the said Albert F. Keeble on monday next in presence of the court here, be branded in the brawn of the left hand with the letter M. And that he be imprisoned nine callender months in the jail of said County of Rutherford from this day, agreeably to the judgment of this Court rendered at the last term; and that the Sheriff of said county be charged with the execution of this sentence.

A True Copy,

[J?] Wm Ledbetter clk

To his Excellency Samuel Houston, Govenor in & over the state of Tennessee. The undersigned respectfully represent that Albert F. Keeble, who was at the last February term 1827 of Rutherford Circuit Court, convicted of Manslaughter in the killing of Peyton Randolph, was by said Court sentenced to nine months imprisonment. And in pursuance of said sentence he has been confined in the jail of said county of Rutherford, from the 27th of August last, and will continue in said jail, until the nine months shall expire; until unless your Excellency shall think proper to discharge him from sd confinement:

We would beg leave to represent to your excellency, That he has a family dependant upon his exertions for a support, and that a continuance of his imprisonment for the nine months will be more a punishment of his family than himself. And that the imprisonment, while it creates a considerable expense, which will eventually fall upon the county, will be, if any, but light punishment to him.

We are also of opinion that circumstances exist in his case which justly entitle him to executive clemency, and without enumerating those circumstances here, we would refer your excellency to the several petitions presented to your predecessor in his behalf; And would respectfully solicit the attention of your excellency, and pray you to extend to him a pardon from longer confinement under said Sentence.

Murfreesborough, 9th Oct 1827

S Anderson Wm Ledbetter S R. Laughlin. Dario Wendel Charles Ready H D. Neilson

Executive Deparment Nashville Nov. 3rd 1847

Gentlemen of the Senate & House of Representatives

By the provisions of the law establishing the Bank of Tennessee, it is made the duty of the Governor to nominate at each regular Session of the General Assembly, twelve persons to serve as Directors for two years. In conformity with the provisions of the law, I submit the names of the following persons as such Directors to wit: Thomas L. Bronsford, William Ledbetter, Louis Morton, J. W. Hoggett, John Shelby, M.M. [Mouo= ton?], John [?] John Waters, George G. Allen, Benjamin R. Howard, C. Conor W^m B. Shepperd, John N Otey R. W. H. Bastion, E. A. White All of which is respectfully submitted

N. S. Brown