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To his Excellency The Governor of The State of Tennessee.

We your petitioners respectfully represent to your Excellency that from
a statement made by James Trimble and Robert H Adams, Esq^r.(who [wear? we are?]]
council for James H Hindman in the case where the said Hindman has
been convicted of manslaughter,) of the evidence given on the trial, and from
a petition sign'd by a number of respectable citizens of the town of Nashville
Setting forth the evidence on the trial of the case. we are induc'd to solicit your
Excellency to grant him a pardon for that part of punishment yet to be
inflicted.

Thos. Campbell
Jn H? Montgomery
Jesse Beene
Nat. Dodson
James M.? Campbell
Thomas N. Clark
John Brown
William H? Clellan
Solomon [illegible]
James Standifer
W. Brown
W^m B. Senior
Tho^s C Clark
John M^cEwen
[Ja^s G. Williams?]
Walter King
Richard Meredith
Calum Morgan

[H? JC?] Mitchell
Tho Brown
J. [Perris?]
[N. Perris?]
Sam^l Eskridge
J. N. Gamble
Will^m Lyon

This ? from the
Statement of the [Evidence?] which
I have Seen made out by the
council for Hindman I consider
it a case of justifiable Homicide
therefore I Signe [sic] this petition

John M Campbell
John S. Fulton
A. Hutchinson
James Park
John [C?]
John Sutherland Jr
D [C?] Roane