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To his excellency Joseph McMinn Governor of the State
of Tennessee - Your Petitioners beg leave to represent
to your excellency that during the present term
of the circuit court of Sumner county Capt.
James McKain of said county has been sentenced
by the court to pay a fine of one hundred & seventy
five ^dollars and be imprisoned for the space of twenty
twenty days for shooting one Rob.t H. Peyton;
that from a knowledge they have of the argue
of the difference between said McKain and
said Peyton and from the proof [addressed?] on
said trial they humbly conceived the aforesaid
sentence too rigorous and that said McKain is
a proper object for your excellency to protect
from the severity of said sentence - the [illegible]
[illegible] considered may it please your excellency
to [illegible] the punishment aforesaid -
William Crawford
W. F. Fulton
Geo Crocket
[illegible] Rutherford
Samuel [Given?]
William Edwards
Robert Bell
John H [Bowen?]
Benj R [illegible]
[Daniel M?] Aulay
Edmond Hunter
H. Grundy Attr for
Def
Isaac Baker
Wilson
[illegbile] Montgomery
Will Williams
John Allen
John Hamilton
Wm Montgomery
R M [Boyers?]
[Larkins?] Wilson
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