Early Governors' Papers

answered They therefore repeat to your excellency that they they humbly conceive the said Martin is an object that deserves commiseration that he is not able to pay the costs of his imprisonment and that the County treasury is already exhuasted we therefore as will in behalf of our county as of the said prisoner beseech your excellency to graciously pardon and reprieve the said Martin from further imprison =ment and ^release the County from further costs and your petitioners will ever pray &c"-

Sam^l H. Bowdey William Allen John Emerson David Craighead W^m K. Hill Josiah Alderson John J. Moor o Rich^d. Allen [?] H. Lewis Robert J. Nelson P.R. Booker

[?] Wm. E. Irvin J.K. Collinsworth Lem^l Prewitt John [?] Thomas Goodman John Cannon [?] [?] Henry Cannon Jeremiah Harrison William Rogers Johnson Rutledg Mosses May Pugh Cannon