Early Governors' Papers

To his Excellency Joseph M^cMin Governor of the State of Tennessee

The undersighned [sic] citasens [sic] of the county of Maury and State of Ten =nessee humbly petitioning represents to your Excellency that in the month of April last Sanford Bramblett a youth of about seventeen years of age was committed to the prison of Maury County charged with stealing a grey mare the property of Thomas Wallace that at the spring Circuit Court of Maury he was ready & prays for his trial but could not obtain it, that has remained in prison untill [sic] the 1^st Monday of Nov 1816 when he was at Williamson Circuit Court tried for the aforesaid offence having changed the Venue to that county when he was convicted and sentenced to re =ceive twenty lashes on his bar [sic] back be branded with the letters T.H. & remain for six months in the prison of Maury County & pay the costs of the prosecution your petitioners reprsent that that part of the sentence of the Court which inflicts the whiping [sic] & burning has been inflicted & that he now is in the prison of Maury County where he is to remain [the?]

Cleveland MAR 6 Te.

PAID 10

To his Exelency [sic] the Geovenor [sic] of the state of Tennessee, or, Secretary of the State of Tennessee At Nashville Tennessee