Early Governors' Papers

Leave to inform your Excellency that he has paid the fine of fifty dollars aforesaid and all costs incedent [sic] on sd Indictment. And though he now feels sensible that he acted rashly at a moment when his passions were greatly agitated against said E[rvin?] in consequence of some Slanderous reports which were raised and propagated by him in the neigh bourhood of your petitioner- Yet your petitioner and those whose names are here unto answered & who join with him in the statement of the aforegoing facts as will as the following prayer, do believe that sd Judgment is over rigorous in its punishment. The premises duly considered pray the Clemency ^of this government through the medium of your Excellency that you would remit that past part of the punishment which relates to the Imprisonment the whole of the ballance [sic] being satisfied, and your petitioner with due submission will ever pray &c

B. M. Mayfield A. Black James Perry John Clack George Baumgardner John B. [C?] John M^cCracken E. [R.?] Bailey William Rose T. M. Yancey H. [Hagren?]

Jno Wallace Lell [B?] Tho^s Smith David Phillip [Lnye?] [S H Steele?] V [illegible] Thomas M^cKissack Elisha [Elan?] William Woods Jo.^s [Strottir?]