1799 Petition To Form Counties and Establish Court
Petition 17-1-1799 to the Tennessee General Assembly
See also Petition No. 24-1-1799, transcribed on this Web site.
Undated
Inhabitants of Grainger Co. ask that no new county be formed … the “bounds between Cock [sic] County and Cumberland Mountains or the Indian boundary line is by No means sufficient for three counties … Nature has formed it for two and No more…” Also “laying a superior Court District Between that of Washington and Hambelton … ”
Signers were:
| Jacob Capps David Collens Elijah Collens William Capps Andrw Blackwood John Bots William Clifton Hardy Hughes Aron Cook Joseph Nation Joshua Bots Willis Caps Edward Thornbrough John Bayer John Gilbert Henry Evins |
William [illegible] Moses Smith Richard Smith John Bruston Jessee James Elnathen Davis John Hutten Js Kirkpatrick Wm Savage Ezekiel Craft Andw Evins Wm Hankins Henry Sharpe Edward Braden Wm York Jesse James |
Source: Tennessee Genealogical Society, “Ansearchin'” News, Fall, 1991, page 114.
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