Early Governors' Papers

Nashville Nov 24th 1820 To his Excellency Joseph M^cMinn. Governor of Tennessee State.

The undersigned respect= fully represent, that John Fry a free man of colour, has been tried at the present term of the Circuit Court of Da=vidson county; and convicted of horse stealing - sentenced to branding whiping [sic] and impris= =onment. Your petitioners therefore pray that said Fry may be released from imprisonment;- The reason is inclement or will soon be so. The county at this time is two years in arrear, with demands already in existence -

John Catron F B Fogg L v. Cheatham J Horton Tho. Hickman Nath^l A M^cNairy A. Hays Henry Crabb [page damaged] Carroll [page damaged] the G W. Gibbs Sam Houston Alfred Balch Jn. W. Overton Tho^s Washington [page damaged] [leive the county from defence?] Felix Grundy John Mims E. H. Foster for reason assigned Thos Washington Esqr [Wa^s?] L [Harrison? Hammond?]

State of Tennessee Supreme Court of Errors and appeals at Nashville

Whereas there is pending in said Court the following cause to wit Morgan Brown, James Moore, William Armstrong, William Thompson & Elizabeth his wife formerly Elizabeth Vance George Childress & Margaret Childress his wife formerly Margaret Vance Morgan B. Vance William L. Vance, Elizabeth L. Vance infants by W^m Thompson & Elizabeth Thompson these guardians Complainants against Nathaniel A M^cNairy Defendant on the Chancery docket in which cause two of the judges of said Court are incompetent to hear and determine the same

We therefore certify the same to his Excellency the Governor of said State to the end that he may appoint two special judges to aid in hearing and deciding said cause, agreeably to an act of the General Assembly of said State passed January 10^th 1830 Chapter 96 section one Given under our hands at Nashville this first day of March A.D. 1831

Jn. Catron Jacob Peck Robert Whyte