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To his Excellency Joseph M^cMin Governor of the State of Tennessee

The undersighned [sic] citasens [sic] of the county of Maury and State of Ten
=nessee humbly petitioning represents to your Excellency that in the month of
April last Sanford Bramblett a youth of about seventeen years of age was
committed to the prison of Maury County charged with stealing a grey
mare the property of Thomas Wallace that at the spring Circuit Court of
Maury he was ready & prays for his trial but could not obtain it, that
has remained in prison untill [sic] the 1^st Monday of Nov 1816 when he was
at Williamson Circuit Court tried for the aforesaid offence having changed
the Venue to that county when he was convicted and sentenced to re
=ceive twenty lashes on his bar [sic] back be branded with the letters T.H. &
remain for six months in the prison of Maury County & pay the
costs of the prosecution your petitioners reprsent that that part of the sentence
of the Court which inflicts the whiping [sic] & burning has been inflicted & that
he now is in the prison of Maury County where he is to remain [the?]