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To his Excellency the Governor of the State
of Tennessee

Your memorialists would res-
pectfully state, that during the present Term
of the Lincoln Circuit Court Erasmus
Chapman of Lincoln County by the verdict
of a jury was found guilty of manslaughter
in the Killing of John Warren, and that
execution of the judgment is delayed to give
an opportunity for the present application.

That the unfortunate transaction occurred
upon a provocation given by the deceased, and
in a sudden transport of passion - previous
to which the parties had been friendly-
that said Chapman is an old man nearly
sixty years of age - he was a soldier in the
revolutionary war - and was in the campaign
against the Creek Indians - He has a large
family ^and has already lain in Goal about four months - and is very poor - for many years
he has been entirely deprived of the sense of
hearing - His family is respectable, and
he has always sustained the character of
a good citizen, a peacable honest & indus
trious man - And they believe him a
proper subject of executive clemency.

They therefore recommend to your
Excellency that the punishmment about to