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To his Excellency Samuel Houston, Govenor in & over
the state of Tennessee. The undersigned respectfully
represent that Albert F. Keeble, who was at the last
February term 1827 of Rutherford Circuit Court, convicted
of Manslaughter in the killing of Peyton Randolph, was
by said Court sentenced to nine months imprisonment.
And in pursuance of said sentence he has been confined
in the jail of said county of Rutherford, from the 27th
of August last, and will continue in said jail, until
the nine months shall expire; until unless your Excellency
shall think proper to discharge him from sd confinement:

We would beg leave to represent to your excellency,
That he has a family dependant upon his exertions
for a support, and that a continuance of his
imprisonment for the nine months will be more a
punishment of his family than himself. And that
the imprisonment, while it creates a considerable
expense, which will eventually fall upon the county,
will be, if any, but light punishment to him.

We are also of opinion that circumstances
exist in his case which justly entitle him to execu-
tive clemency, and without enumerating those cir-
cumstances here, we would refer your excellency
to the several petitions presented to your predecessor
in his behalf; And would respectfully solicit
the attention of your excellency, and pray you
to extend to him a pardon from longer confinement
under said Sentence.

Murfreesborough, 9th Oct 1827

S Anderson
Wm Ledbetter
S R. Laughlin.
Dario Wendel
Charles Ready
H D. Neilson