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His Excellency Joseph M^cMinn Governor of
the State of Tennessee

The undersigner your petitioners
show to your Excellency that on the 27^th Inst.
at the hon^l [Grant?] and for the county of
Anderson held at Clinton before the hon^l
Thomas Emmerson on of the Judges of law and
Equity in & for the [?] aforesaid cannon to be
tried a certain Jonathan Coban, who being tied
by & at said Court was evicted of hte sum
of murder, for which crime he was sentenced by
said court to be punished with death - Your
petitioners state further to your Excellency that altho
said convict was found [?] of murder by a [judge?]
of his country & choice that still he is as they
believe a fit subject for Executive clemency -
It seems from the testimony that the decesased was
under an arrest by state warrant for an assault
& Battery and in custody of hte [?] offence when
said officer commander said Coban the convict
to take charge of him until he said officer
should return and then went away that while
the said officer was absent the prisoner made
an attempt to escape when said Coban called
to him at least thru [sic] several times to halt
said deceased still [unending?] his [face?] to make
his escape and had advanced about thirty or
forty years when said Coban (with a rifle gun