Sixty-nine citizens seek clemency for Randal Parks, "a very young man" convicted "of stealing negroes" and condemned to death for said crime. They aver that Parks "sometime ago removed into this state from Virginia and from the neighbourhood and protection of a very respectable family," whereby he was "not only deprived of their advice and example, but was also exposed to the company of evil disposed persons by which means the said Randal owing to his youth, easy temper and complying disposition was induced to engage in the crime for which he now stands convicted." They therefore pray "your Excellency to grant him a pardon.”
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
