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To His Excellency Samuel Houston
Governor in and over the state of Tennessee

We Your Petitioners would most respect
fully represent that at the December
Term 1827. of the Bedford Circuit
Court a boy of about the age of eighteen
by the name of Alexander Orr
was tried for horse stealing and was
by the Jury upon satisfactory proof
convicted Whereupon the said Orr
was sentenced by his honor Judge Kennedy
to receive fifteen stripes, stand in the
pillory three successive days for two
hours, be branded, and remain in
jail for six months; The pillorying
branding and whipping has already
been inflicted We your petitioners
would state that theier is much in this
case to excite pity and commiseration,
the character of the boy before the
commission of the offence of which he
has been convicted, was unimpeachable,
even exemplary; His father and relations
support a character for honesty, and