Early Governors' Papers

Franklin May 9^th 1816

D^r Sir,

Last night there escaped from the sheriff of this county, a man by the name of Jesse Clarke, charged with bur =glary and with horse stealing. Bills of indictment have been found against him for both those offences; and there is but little doubt of his guilt. You are requested to determine from this statement, as to the propriety of issuing a proclamation for his arrest.

He is formerly from South Carolina and once lived in Bedford county in this state, where these offences were