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Greeneville June 7th 1828

Sir

At the request of the Counsel of Danl Allen I addressed a letter
to Governor Carroll on the subject of a petition presented for a Pardon
but my letter may have been mislaid Mr Allens counsel has again
requested me to write to you,- D Allen was charg'd with the murder of
James Houston, tried in the Greene County Circuit Court at the ^March
Term 182[smudged out] and found guilty of manslaughter, he was sentenced to
be branded in the hand & to be imprisoned six months, from which
Judgment he took an appeal to the supreme Court & as I have been
inform'd the Judgment was there affirmed, & the execution of the Judgt
suspended on the application of Allen's Counsel for the purpose of
giveing him an opportunity to apply for a Pardon

I was perfectly satisfied in the trial that the Verdict of the Jury was
correct & nothing has since occured to change that opinion,- I carefully
examined the Petition that I understood was forwarded to Gov. Carroll
(& I am informd was not finally acted on by him) the statements
in the Petition I think substantially correct with one or two exceptions
which are refer'd to in my letter to Gov. Carroll more particularly
than I can now refer to them as I have not my Notes before me nor
have I as distinct a recollection of the matter ^now as then, but I
did not consider the exceptions would materially change the complexion of
the Petition, I think from my knowledge of Mr. Allen as well as from
general report the character given of him in his Petition is substantially
correct & the circumstances that attended the Homocide set forth
substantially correct, Considering Mr. Allen's general good character