McMinn_Letter_259_48972

To his Excellency Joseph McMinn Governor in and over the State of Tennessee. The Petition of the under =signed shew that of the August Term of the Circuit Court for the year 1821 (illegible) at Knoxville, Tennessee James Childress a Citizen of said county was tried & convicted of Petit Larceny & sentenced to receive Tweny five Lashes the undersigned from motives of Humanity, from & a hope of amendment from a respect, to his aged Parents, and from other causes & considerations. Recommend said James Childress to your Excellency for a pardon and your Excellency is now about to leave a situation that you have filled in so distinguised a manner that this last act of your admin =istration may be marked with that distinguished Humanity thus has heretofore characterized your whole life

W.E. Anderson (?) G. D(?) DB (Illegible) Pryor (Seal?/Leal?) (Illegible) White Thos (L?) Williams James Park

Edw'd White W.G. (Blount?) Wm Hogshead Cyrus W. (Mullinax?) Andrew M. Campbell James P.H. Pate (Illegible) Charles T. Parker Thos Brown Charles W. Prince, one of the jurors John Goss Samuel Lindell Wm Morris Tim Campbell Wm. T. Givens Jas. R. (Klima?) Samuel C. Love Peter Waggoner Robert Marley John Haynie Julian Frazier James Thompson A(?) Donoven William (Walters?) John (A?) Martin James Cox David Nelson Robert Tu(?), juror J. Callaway Edwin E. Booth, juror (Illegible) Gentry Jno. Cleary Samuel Todd, one of the jury Jno. B(?) George Graves, one of the jury (Illegible) Larkin (Bowlen/Bowles?) Moses Lindsay John R Nelson (Illegible)

James M[c]Collach Joseph McLain Wm Tipton Cornelius Hickey John Sawyer, juror J.W. Hamilton Robert Miller Michael Sheterly John Bearden Robert Bell Randolph Carter William Bowen Jas Callaway, juror J.B. Ragon, juror (Illegible) Lo[ckhart?) Joseph Parks Jno. Dudley F. S. Heiskell Elliott Grills Travis George

[Column 2] Jeremiah King John Boyd Nathan Cowan Alexr Stowell Carter Dewey[?] John Howell Reuben Tipton Alex Cole Joseph Bartholomew James C. Luttrell John Suthaland, Jr. Absolom Bowling Wm. Heath [Luke?] Mitchell John Fryer, juror Andrew Russell William Knox, [juror?] Aron Yarnell James Robinson

William Douglass, juror M. N[elson?] Charles Y. Oliver Elijah Hickey Petition Abram Lowe The pray thereof being Thos Hudiburgh taken into consideration Sam'l Fleming it has been adjudged James Anderson, juror reasonable, and a Pardon John Crabb issued accordingly. Sam'l Armstrong 6th Sept, 1821 Will Swan B[?] Sherwood Joseph McMinn Pleasant Cr[eve?] 1821 B. Boyd Walter Kennedy Pardon Petitions, Geo. F. Reynolds etc Wm. Samples Gov McMinn