Early Governors' Papers

support- and whom your Petitioners believe has been led into this great difficulty by a man of more shrewdness and cunning than the unfortunate Nelms.

Your Petitioners believe this is such a case as loudly calls for executive Clemency, and pray your Excellency to Grant the said James Nelms your pardon and save him from the execution of the law which which is appointed to take place on the 1^st Saturday after the 4^th Monday in June next-

Hiram S. Wattington Adam Miers Isaac Roland John Neighbours Joseph Freeman Whitfield Mover N G Carter Lille Bary freeman Jacob Myers Solomon Tailor Brinkley Bridges John Blurten Harberd Young William Young Daniel Haynes Elisha Cole Daniel Glenn

Tho^s Cook Joseph G. [Clendenie?] James Driver [Pasdal?] Marlan Levy [S? Kuykendall] Reuben Smith Martin S. Smith Payton Marlow Allen H Bridges [illegible] [Peter Bienes?] James Virrett Jesse Wright Wright Croslin James Haworth Samuel Smith James S. Rolland W D. Smith 35