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Greeneville June 7th Inst. 1828

Dear Sir,

Permit me to take the privalege
of recommending to your clem^ency Mr.
Daniel Allen of this County who was con=
victed of Manslaughter in the Circuit
Court of Greene - The Petition to which
there are many signatures I presume has
been presented to you - This Petition
will as my recollection serves me I believe
to be substantially correct; altho it may
not detail every minute circumstance
given in evidencte on the trial - I was
employed on behalf of the prosecution
and aided in it - and from a know=
ledge of the whole of the circumstances of
the transaction, as deposed to by the wit=
nesses, believe him to be an object toward
whom executive clemency should be
extended - In mind & in estate
he has suffered much, and that
he has felt that unfeigned [?]