Wayne County, NC - Court Records

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Grace Williamson Turner
Edited by Guy Potts

Source: G.P. 147, Papers of Governor John W. Ellis, September-December
        1859. Date penciled in at top of page is Oct. 26, 1859


    To his Excellency John W. Ellis, Governor of the State of North 
Carolina

         We the undersigned respectfully represent unto your excellency
that we have been long acquainted with John Starling, now confined in the
Jail of Wayne for the murder of one Sally Patton and notwithstanding the
verdict of the jury we fully believe that he was in a state of temperary
insanity or delirium, when the deed was done. He is naturally of a week
mind, and has always sustained a remarkable character for peace. We 
believe this to be the opinion of his neighbors generally, which some of
us are, an opinion formed from their previous knowledge of the man, as
well as from the peculiarty of the circumstances attending the transaction.
We therefore pray your Excellency, to exercise the executive puragative
of pardon towards the said Starling, believing that it will not injure
the State, but will be a proper act of clemency to him

                                               Respectfully

K.B. Herring  a neighbour        James H. Hinson          Robert Howell

William Staling  a neighbour     John Turnidge            George F. Parker

W.H. Brogden                     Ely Saceer               William Wilson

Nathan Brogden                   Rigden Q. Brogden        Britton H. Brogden

Thomas W. Brogden                William R. Beard         W.R. Parker

Blake Din King                   Matthew Brogden          T.C. Overman

John T. Beard                    John W.T. Brogden

Elisah Myers                     John W. Brogden

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