One hundred thirty-one Smith County residents petition in behalf of Capt. Edward Settles, a veteran of the American Revolution whose slave Daniel was executed in 1825 for committing a rape. The petitioners reveal that said Daniel "was the principal reliance of said Settles for a support and unless he receives some compensation from the State, he will be left destitute in his old age." They therefore "humbly pray that such relief may be granted him by your ... body as may be considered due to a warworn, worthy, destitute old man, whose principal means of support have been taken from him by a State prosecution."
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