Early Governors' Papers

your Excellency to extend your mercy to the unfortunate youth and mitigate the punishment which is to be inflicted on him particularly such parts as may Carry external marks of Infamy - for which your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &C &C -

John Sevier [Jun^r?]

James Linney Thomas gibbons Ja^s Gaines David Russel W. Armstrong David Perry- Jacob Brown Jonathan [Lifter?] W [Ranhine?] John Norwood

The above is the Jury that found him gilty on this collem Geo. Gillespie Rob^t Russell James Mahan [Hen(ry)?] Conway

Tho^s Gilespie William Noddy Marlain Sidner Nath Taylor

John Carter Rodham Knox Abedneg Haile John Clarke William Eavins William Nash John Baylis Sam^l Wood Ja^s Gray John Cowhn William Gray Charls Robertson Frithias Wall William Young W^m Paine W^m Murphy John Carson John Blackbown

Hawkins 20^th[] January 1803

Sir

I inclose to you a certificate of the resignation of Joel Shropshire Entry taker of this County, and recommend George H. Etter esquire a fit person for that appointment and one that would be pleasing to the people of this County. William Paine I am told as written to you for the appointment, I have no doubt but he would make a good one but he is County Treasurer and perhaps cannot hold both the appointments

To his Excellency Archibald Roan [sic] Esq^r Governor in and over the State of Tennessee the petition of the undersigned On behalf of Peter Bean humbly [co?]presenteth

That the said before named Peter Bean hath [?], at the Honorable [?] [Couch] of [?] continued and held in and for the District of Washington in the State of Tennessee on the [first?] monday of March in the year our our Lord one thousand and Eight hundred and three - been found guilty, by a Jury of his Country, of the crime of petit [sic] larceny on an indictment on that [pursued?] against him - and is now liable to the punishment prescribed by law for such offence

We therefore whose names all hereto Subscribed do think our selves authorised, by the circumstances of the said case of the said Peter Bean, and in consideration of his character, which has been proved to have been good prior to the commission of the offence where with he is now charged and found Guilty - to [Recommend?] him the said Peter Bean to Your Excellency as a proper Object to whom to the benefit of a pardon which you are by the constitution of the state of Tennessee vested with the power of Granting and therefore do [Recommend?] the said Peter Bean to your Excellency as such and pray that Your Excellency may grant such a pardon to him according ly

James Gatbreaith Nathaniel Davis W^m Paine James Foyly

David Kussel James Miller John Johnson Joseph Wilson Jn^o. Adair

Isaac Lane Thomas Stuart Matthew Aiken Hen Harkleroad