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present appearance that he cannot long
survive in his present confinement We think
it most likely that he will not live to see
the consumation of his punishment. We hope
that all the benefit that accrues to the public
from the example of punishment- also all the
good derived by its tendency to the reformation
of the defendent will be effected in the case
of Joseph M^cPeters ^by what he has already suffered Wherefore we pray
your Excelency [sic] to extend your clemency in the
mitigation of his punishment so far as you
may think consistent with the public good &
required by the obligations of mercy towards a
felow [sic] creature [sic] suffering in his condition &c

N. E. Anderson
[O. T. Thamas?]
George [V. Camley?]
W. G. Blount
Samuel Clark
Samuel Sherp

James Robinson
William Swan
Julian Frazier
Alex B. Bradford
John F. Gillespy
John Munday
William Howell