Early Governors' Papers

State of Tennessee, Hickman County Whereas John B. Phelps of Warren County was convicted of Horse stealing at the September Term of the Circuit Court for said County and sen-tenced to receive the punishment of the Law pre-scribed therefor to wit, that he remain in close prison six ^months from 13^th Sept. 1821. that he be taken there from on the 16, 17, and 18^th October next & on each day to stand three hours in the pillory & on the last 18^th to receive on the bare back twenty lashes and be branded with H.T on the brawn of the right thumb and thence be remanded to prison till the expiration of the aforesaid six months. Now this to pray the Governor of this State as the regular authorised and Constitutional power to remit and reprieve the aforesaid Phelps as to so much of his punishment as related to the imprisonment of his person after the aforesaid 18 October when the other punis-hment is to be inflicted - as perhaps the balance would suffice and the County of Hickman be released from the payment of considerable cost, that it would otherwise incur &c - C. F. Eason } H. Nixon Eli B. Hornbeak } BSB. [Selbyfitte? Satterfield?]

State of Tennessee SS:

I James Scott Solicitor Gen^l pro: tem: of the 12^th Solicitorial of this State and prosecuting on be=half of the State do hereby certify and make known that John B. Phelps was convicted of Horse Stealing at the September Term 1821 of the Circuit Court for said County by a Jury of his country and the judgement of the Court agreeable to law for an Offence of that Kind was pronounced against him to the following effect - that s^d Phelps be remanded to [close?] prison, there to remain untill [sic] the expiration of six months from and after the [rise?] of said County, that he be brought out on three several days to wit, On the 16^th, 17^th, & 18^th October next on each day to remain two hours in the pillory, and on the 18^th October aforesaid to be given twenty lashes on the bare back be branded with H.T. on the brawn of the right thumb; thence to be remanded to [close?] pris-on [illegible] he [came?] untill [sic] the expiration of the aforesaid six months and pay the [illegible] of the prosecution. - Given under my hand &c. September 18.^th 1821. James Scott

J B Phelps Pardon iss^d 19 Sep 1821