Early Governors' Papers

John Sutherland, Jr. Thomas H. Miller Jno. Armstrong John [?] John Killinsworth J.W. Clark Thomas Killinsworth Matthew Thompson Thomas Bell Robert Bell [?] John [Keent?] James Hisky Saml. Thompson Jesse Tuberville Robert Murray George Mead William Killinsworth Thomas Ludiburgh Benjamin White Jn^o Dudley William Montgomery

Edmond Walsh James Boyd Reader S. Floyd [?] [Anally?] Nath^l Cowan R^d. Rosley Grant Angus Mac Colt Jas. A. Givens [?] [Servis] [?] [Grandey?] Thomas Hope Philip Pillow Thomas C. Hindman John Anderson [?] C. Clark B. J. White John Crozier John Haymie

let at liberty by paying the cost of the prosecution [illegible] sentence to be [executed?] on Saturday next if not pardoned -- August 8^th 1816.

W^m Williamson Justice of Peace Doc^tr. James Cox George Dunkin Sam Lowry George [Cannon?] Alexander Hart W^m [Cannon?] John L [Tullo?] W^m Montgomery John [Curtiss?]

B. M^c [illegbile] [Saffie?] Harris J. peace [illegible] Jonathan [Trippet?] [illegible] John Rogers James [illegible]] Tho^s Henderson James [M^cLanahan?] W^m Lowry [illegbile] Rudd Richard [Lowry?] John Woods A. Sloan Archibald Murphy [illegbile] [Jo^s Hunington?] [William Little?] John Hicklin James Young Ja^s [illegbile]

Geo. A Sublett Robert Smith Juror [Jesse Brashear?] Charles Snell Hansel Brady John [Ransom?] Abram Thompson James D Caruthers J. R. Laughlin Thos. Woods John Bradley W^m Baskin Jermiah [Gelson?] H [illegible] Samuel Patton [Larkin Covington?] Jesse Covington William Covington Cyrus L Roberts James [Barranter?] Dan^l Fisher Johnson Cocknell James Harrison

Andrew [T Hanes?] John Wade Briant [Hairs?] A. C. Sublett Rob. Lawing Everett Creech James Wilson W. [T.?] Snell William Montgomery Edmund [Rue?] Joshua Harrison Joseph Harrison John D [V?] Wm. Woodson James Vaughan James [MC Neight?] A. Childress C. H. Williams James Childress James Boatright James Cunningham George Uselton William Corbell

To his excellency Joseph M^cMinn Governor of the State of Tennessee - Your Petitioners beg leave to represent to your excellency that during the present term of the circuit court of Sumner county Cap^t. James M^cKain of said county has been sentenced by the court to pay a fine of one hundred & seventy five ^dollars and be imprisoned for the space of twenty twenty days for shooting one Rob.^t H. Peyton; that from a knowledge they have of the argue of the difference between said M^cKain and said Peyton and from the proof [addressed?] on said trial they humbly conceived the aforesaid sentence too rigorous and that said M^cKain is a proper object for your excellency to protect from the severity of said sentence - the [illegible] [illegible] considered may it please your excellency to [illegible] the punishment aforesaid -

William Crawford W. F. Fulton Geo Crocket [illegible] Rutherford Samuel [Given?] William Edwards Robert Bell John H [Bowen?] Benj R [illegible] [Daniel M?] Aulay Edmond Hunter

H. Grundy Attr for Def Isaac Baker Wilson [illegbile] Montgomery Will Williams John Allen John Hamilton W^m Montgomery R M [Boyers?] [Larkins?] Wilson

Amos Small William Horton John Prude Walter Kincaid Sam^l Rosebrough John H Williams James Howard John Rhea Archibald M^c Elroy Alexander Mchullock Micajah McElroy John Nixon Samuel [leacher?] Jos [Wenderson?] William Martin William [illegible]] James McCormac Aaron Parks Benjaman Woodruff [J? illegible] Sebastien Tunstall Gregory J B [Clemms?] E K [illegible] Leonard Miles James Dalford John Pinkerton [SL?] Hunter

Thomas Harper Thomas Pearce W^m Wellborn James Brooks H. Forester Francis Ross Allan Shayne Charles Jennings William Montgomery [Arner Diave?] [illegible] g Wilson William Conaway Tho^s W Hamilton Thomas Parks Archibald Mayfield George [MZ?] Cunningham Samuel Broadaway Andrew Hannah Angus Johnson Tho^s Clarke Daniel Bachman Thomas Alley Edw^d. Tatum John H. Rogers Tho. [D.?] Toller