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To his Excellency Joseph M^cMinn Governor
of the State of Tennessee-
We the undersigned, Citizens of the County of
Roane represent to your Excellency that at the
September term 1820 of the Circuit Court of
said County a certain John Brummet
was indicted of a fraud in passing certain
counterfeited Bank - bills, found guilty by a
Jury, and sentenced by the Court to one year's
imprisonment in the Jail of said County-
We state to your excellency that it is our
opinion that from a breast complaint to which
said Brummet appears to be subjected if he
be continued in Confinement in a cold
damp prison his life will be greatly endanger
-ered. We further assure your Excellency that
said Brummet appears to be quite illiterate
and ignorant; that he is as we believe destitute
of property; and should he be [constrained?] in
Jail until the end of one year he will
then be compelled to reamin there on account
of the costs until the county of Roane
shall pay the same - which said county
will have ultimately to do - and that
therefore we consider that no good will
result to the community from his confine
-ment, but on the contrary a considerable
injury will be thereby done to the county
of Roane by increasing the charges of
his detention. Wherefore we pray your
Excellency to release said Brummet
from so much of the Judgement against
him as requires his imprisonment for
12 calender [sic] months, that is so much of
said period as has not yet expired -
Kingston October 30 1820 -

Anderson Hutcherson Rufus F. King
[W.C.M. Harry?] - W^m B. Clark James M^c Campbell
P. Richards
Addison Carrick B. Harrison
[? Purris] [D? Watt?] Robert S. Gilliland
E.H. Smith A.O. Ayer