McMinn_Letter_265_48979

To his exellency [sic] Joseph M^cMinn Govener [sic] of the State of Tennessee

The undersigned Citizens of Franklin County would respectfully represent that at the last sessions of the county Court, of said County, Richard Tyson was found guilty of an assault & Battery upon the body of one Addams, and sentenced by the Court to sixty days imprisonment, and a fine of fifty dollars & cents. Your pititioners [sic], from their knowledge of the defen= =dant & his situation, beg leave to state that he is a very poor man, has a wife & several small children who are dependant on his labour for sustenance, that should he be containnd [sic] in prison [a unable?] to the sentance [sic] of the court, he will probably loose [sic] the opportunity of making a crop the present year and his family would be likely to so suffer. Besides, they would state that he is a man of honest character & general good conduct & as they are informed, the prosecutor much to blame in the transaction

We therefore pray that his ease [may?] be taken into your excellency's tender consideration, and that he may [incur?] a [free?] pardon-at least from the sentence of imprisonment

Thomas Gilliam John [Gilliam Jr?] [illegible] William M^cDonald John W Camden [illegible] from [illegible] Thompson Phillips [illegible] John Roach John Mash [illegible] from the [illegible] [illegible] From the Imprisonment or [illegible] of opinion that [Example?] [illegible] Good citizens Jesse [Angell?] thomas [galleher?]

Henry Bryant William Patten Laurence Angell William Angell William [illegible] [Wallace Brant?] [illegible] [illegible] Angell [illegible] morris William M^cBee James Johnston William maghee Turner george A Brock Isham [Wamack?] John [bant?] William Richards Arnold [hethen?] Hutson Buris. William Lusk James [Hegar?] Samuel Johnson William Stevenson [Sillas?] glenn Joseph Dunkin Stogner Bray [Alex?] E Patton

Samuel B Sherril Henry Sherril Isaac Cartwright William harper George Richardson John [illegible] Abraham [Kuy?] Kendall John [Kuy?] Kendall John [Busksey?] Jas. Richardson George More Th^o. Kenedy Johan [Lush?] Jesse [illegible] Daniel [Dun? Deen?] James Sandal William Sandal Wm. [Grover?]

Sylvester Payne [Kin? illegbile Bray?] Richard Austin Lewis Langston John Colquitt

State of Tennessee Be it remembered that on the 11th day of December 1820 Thine issued [illegible] by John John W Camdon a justice of the peace for Franklin county in the words and figures following viz -

State of Tennessee Franklin county} To any lawful officer to execute and return [whereas?] this day personally appeared before me John W Camdon one of the acting justices of the peace fer [sic] s^d county Daniel [Monaghan?] of the county aforesaid and made oath in a [illegible] form of Law that Richard Tyson did on this day at the Store house of Wm McDonald on the road leading from Winchester to Mcminnville in the county aforesaid did assault and [beat?] and cut with a penknife on the neck one Hopewell Adams of the county Lawrence and State of Alabama These are therefore to command you forewith to apprehend the s^d Richard Tyson and bring him before me, ^or some other Justice for said county to answer the s^d complaint and to be further dealt with according to Law Given under my hand and seal this 16^th day of December in the year of our lord 1820 John W Camdon And on the back of which warrant there appeared the following endorsements viz Came to have [illegible] on the same day Is^d E Arnold [ct.?]