Early Governors' Papers

To his Excellency Samuel Houston Governor in and over the State of Tennessee.

The Petition of your subscribers citizens of the county pf Maury in said State respectfully represents to your Excellency that at the December term of the circuit court for said county, A citizen Robert A Rankin for a violation of the penal law of the State, was sentenced to a fine of fifty dollars, and imprisonment for the term of four months; somewhat more than one half of which latter punishment he has already suffered.

Your Petitioners would further respectfully represent, that the said Robert A Rankin is a man in indigent circumstances with a Wife and child dependent solely on his personal exertions for support, and tha this present confinement renders it impossible for him either to contribute to their sustenance, or to provide means to answer the pecuniary part of his sentence. We therefore respectfully pray that your Excellency would consider the helpless & destitute situation of the family of the said Robert A, and remit to him the remainder of his adjudged period of imprisonment, and authorise the Jailor of said county of Maury to set him at liberty. And as in duty bound we shall ever pray &c.

Allen Brown G. W. Campbell M J M^cKee Jos Herndon T. A. Cahall Sam^l H Williams [Pat R?] Maguire Edw^d H Chaffins Rich^d B. Papmore W^m S Moore William P Williams John Justone Henry B Waldrum Sam^l B Scott Charles W. Webber Micah G. Lewis John L Smith William C Cherry Caleb Thomas Andrew C. Hays John B. Hays W^m Philan A H Davis John Porter L. B. Reairs Sam^l Phillips R. A. Parks J P Brown John T Moore [?] H Ware Jonas E Thomas J. R. Plummer John Kilcease D B Frintson

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respecful [sic] parantag (parenting) [sic] in this neighbourhood his mother died when he was small his father married again and moved to kentucky and left him in this place Your Excellency therfore in extening [sic] your mercy to said Peter Blake by granting him your Pardon will greatly Relieve the anxiety of his connection and your petitioners the said Peter Blake is now lying in Rogersville jail is to be sent to Greeneville to Receive his punishment on the 8 day of June next 1819 Your petitioners as in duty bound and will pray &c

John [Lorne?] Wm Dicksen DO Ro [Anelson?] W^m R Vance W^m [A Clere?] James R Isbell Do John A Dewoody Do Wm Dewoody Do Robert Maloney Do John Kennedy John Anderson Do Allen Brown Do George Brown Do

Joel [Dryden?] James Hays John Goss David Rice James Morrow John Morrow John Davis Stephen Allexander Tho allexander Wm Allexander [? allexander]

Robert L. Cobbs SamL Polk [M Caruthers?] George M Martin C M [clk?] [Jas ?] [P. ?] H.B. Porter John T Moore David Craighead [Robt. C. ? Jr] John Kennedy George Tate Jackson Fitzgareld Abner Matthews Daniel [Goodrum?] James Thorp Robert Campbell Alexander Moore [illegible] James H. Bowman Tho. Brown William Erwin John A. Faris Noel Waddill David Martin Allen Brown [H?] Grove [P. R. Backer?]

John Wallis The Father of the unhappy Man

Mary W. Wallis his wife Alberto F. Wallis Mortimer R. Wallis his sons