Early Governors' Papers

Sevier Joseph Byrd Jun Cap

Knox Alex^r Coulter Cap Joseph Ashworth L^t James Campbell cornet

Cocke Paul M^cDermott Cap^t John Allen Lieut

His Excellency Governor Roane

Commissions issued 1^st October 1801 and to be Recorded

1801 Gov. Roane

State of Tennessee Cocke County

At an election held at the Court house in the County of Cocke, for one Captain & Lieutenant for the Company of Cavalry of said County, on the first Saturday in Nov=ember 1800. Paul M^cDermott was duly elect= =ed Captain & John Allen Lieutenant

Given under Our hands this first Saturday in November 1800.

W^m Lillard John Caffa Judges of said Election

To the Governor of the State of Tennessee

We would as Citizens of the County of Rutherford pray your excellency to pardon A. F Keeble who is now confined in the Jail of Rutherford County for the slaying of Peyton Randolph, and was convicted of manslaughter at the last Febuary term of the Rutherford Circuit Court

Saml Killough Sam Richardson John [?] Ezekiel Pace Solomon Stoddard John Wallace Dan'el Fane David McKay J Bateman William [Wallace?] John Parce James Askins Greenbery Jacobs John sanders Younger Wyatt David Shepherd John Wade John Allen R. Z. Hawkins Jason Thompson M A Fletcher P. Parker Samuel L [Carresh?]

To his excellency Joseph M^cMinn Governor of the State of Tennessee - Your Petitioners beg leave to represent to your excellency that during the present term of the circuit court of Sumner county Cap^t. James M^cKain of said county has been sentenced by the court to pay a fine of one hundred & seventy five ^dollars and be imprisoned for the space of twenty twenty days for shooting one Rob.^t H. Peyton; that from a knowledge they have of the argue of the difference between said M^cKain and said Peyton and from the proof [addressed?] on said trial they humbly conceived the aforesaid sentence too rigorous and that said M^cKain is a proper object for your excellency to protect from the severity of said sentence - the [illegible] [illegible] considered may it please your excellency to [illegible] the punishment aforesaid -

William Crawford W. F. Fulton Geo Crocket [illegible] Rutherford Samuel [Given?] William Edwards Robert Bell John H [Bowen?] Benj R [illegible] [Daniel M?] Aulay Edmond Hunter

H. Grundy Attr for Def Isaac Baker Wilson [illegbile] Montgomery Will Williams John Allen John Hamilton W^m Montgomery R M [Boyers?] [Larkins?] Wilson