Early Governors' Papers

respecful [sic] parantag (parenting) [sic] in this neighbourhood his mother died when he was small his father married again and moved to kentucky and left him in this place Your Excellency therfore in extening [sic] your mercy to said Peter Blake by granting him your Pardon will greatly Relieve the anxiety of his connection and your petitioners the said Peter Blake is now lying in Rogersville jail is to be sent to Greeneville to Receive his punishment on the 8 day of June next 1819 Your petitioners as in duty bound and will pray &c

John [Lorne?] Wm Dicksen DO Ro [Anelson?] W^m R Vance W^m [A Clere?] James R Isbell Do John A Dewoody Do Wm Dewoody Do Robert Maloney Do John Kennedy John Anderson Do Allen Brown Do George Brown Do

Joel [Dryden?] James Hays John Goss David Rice James Morrow John Morrow John Davis Stephen Allexander Tho allexander Wm Allexander [? allexander]