[ Full-text transcription of: Petition from Citizens of Caldwell County; Re: Pardon for Prisoner ]
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Aham Coots
Petition
Caldwell Co.
To his Excellency
Thomas Reynolds Govenor of the State
Of
would most humbly state unto Your honor
that I the Said Abraham and my Son How
-ard Coots a Youth of Fourteen or fifteen
Years of age have been arrested and fined
to the amount of fifty Seven Dollars and
fifty cents for Riot and would farther State
unto Yr Honor that we were most egrgious
ly abused and slandered By a certain John
Peirce, the Said Peirce Insulting maliciously
Myself and son by the Epithet of [Illegible] and
other Insulting language thereby provoking
Myself to an assault upon said Peirce
and the Said Youth Howard interfering
was also fined Heavily, against all honor
and Justice. Your Petitioner being aged
Eighty four Years old with a large
Family and very poor and without the
Means of paying Such fine without
Greatly Injuring himself and family
Your Ù Petitioner therefore humbly prays that You
will remit the said fine. In Witness
Whereof the undersigned Will Testify:
Jany 8- 1841 Abraham Coots
Wm K Hodgins C. Phillips
John Neely A. B. West
Thomas C. Gardener E. Keller
T. D. Holman Wm Warnick
A D Womley Charles [Blackly]
T. Penney
D O Penney
Richard Hulse Wm Smith
George M Moss Jno M Rowland
Elisha Fortune James Timmons
[J.] T. Tate J. D. [Lane]
Hirum Huffman Charls McCray
Joseph Nusser Wm [illegible]
Frederick Brown
George W. McDonald
John Taylor
[Job] Baily
Job T Baily
Elliot Roberts
N H [Summers]
David Hughs
John Curtin
Alex.. Dunlap
John Ebbers
George T. []ance
George []leymers
Wm [illegible]
Alard Ti[illegible]
Saml Masingill