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M^cMinnville 4^th Dem.^r 1819 -

Dear Sir.

The [motives?] of humanity urged
by the humility of a gray head &
Some Honest connections are amongst
the causes of my thus trespassing upon
your time John Lusk who is now
under condemnation at Nashville
for the crime of rape has been some
years a citison [sic] of this county and
yet of my own knowledge I know
nothing or but little of the man like
all Others under affliction his enemies
e [?] & his friends pity but
the improbability of the crime with
all its horrors in a country like this
and reflecting that his [?] indi
=gence may not have placed on a
level with most others in defending
himself against the causes of his count
=try has induced my Self amonst [sic] others