Early Governors' Papers

Depth of which said mortal wound the said John Compton then and there instantly died and so the siad Ellis Thomas then and there feloniously killed and murdered the said John Compton against the peace and Dignity of the state.

And the said Jurors further say upon their oaths aforesaid that Ellis Thomas yeoman of this county as aforesaid did wilfully [sic], maliciously, voluntarily, and with malice of forethought murdered the said John Compton in manner and form as aforesaid at the house of Stuard Owens in Sevierville in [the?] County aforesaid on the night of the twelfth of October 1816

In Witness when of as will the aforesaid Coroner as the Jurors aforesaid have to this inquisition put their Seals on the day and year, and at the place above named -

Stuard Owens Coroner (seal)

Thomas Price (seal) foreman Alexander Preston (seal) Jeremiah Mathews (seal) John Clabaugh Sen (seal) Thomas Locke Sen (seal) John Williams (seal) Robert Lawson (seal) John Cannon (seal) Josiah Rogers (seal) William Cannon (seal) John Reid (seal) Anthony Lawson (seal)

Court for a Rehearing of his cause, upon grounds which in the opinion of your Excellency petitioners are sufficient to obtain a new trial as appears from an accompanying document from the clerks office of said court, the benefit of which was in the opinion of your petitioners, unjustly denied the said Farris; And now, if your Excellency please, as you are the only tribunal from whom we, in behalf of the said Major Farris can implore relief, we therefore trust, from the above reasons that your Excellency will be pleased to extend mercy to the said Major Farris, and order that the said sentence of inprisonment be remitted, or such other relief as your Excellency in your wisdom may think proper to extend and we your Excellencys most obliged memorialists as in duly bound will we pray &c.

Wesley Glazier Jonathan Newman Samuel Evans W^m Bailey William Smith Jacob Caroll John Frasher William Arnett W^m M Raines Samuel Gloves Aaron Newman Benjn Allison John [illegible] W. C. Price

William Elkins Andrew Sids John Fitzpatrick [Willis?] Allison Nathaniel Jones Josiah Rogers Abraham Jones James Thompson John Shumate John Cunningham William Martin Thomas Smethermand Ernest Harper Edward Roberson William Ramsey