1806 Petition to Modify an Act Governing Registers and Rangers
Petition 9-2-1806 to the Tennessee General Assembly
Undated
Inhabitants of Grainger County wish to modify an act passed to compel the Registers and Rangers of various counties to hold court at their Court Houses. “The said office is one of high importance to the public, yet the fees of office are so inconsiderable as not to authorize a person comfortably settled on a farm in the country to remove to town to attend to the duties of said office.” Petitioners ask permission for the Register and Ranger of Grainger County “to hold his office at any place in the county.”
Signers were:
| Philip Sigler Jarimiah Mince Noah Ashly William Asher Peter Hammick William Webster Jonathen Branson Charles Drake William Waggoner John Blackburn Isaac Long Thomas James Archibald Greer Samuel Waggoner Thomas Morris Thomas Boullon Morten Morris Samuel Hammick Elijah Lang John Bolton Marten Thornbury Richard Thornbury William Capts John Mapels Isaac Davis Charles Hutcheson William Patton Walker Allen |
John Baker Benjamin moor [sic] Andrew seabolt [sic] John Nall John Parker Thos Brown David Watson William Lane James Lane, Junr John Selvidge James Lane, Senr William Pasley Jeremiah Lovell David Elkins Gorge Lovell Philip Parker Abraham Elliot Samuel Bunch Wm Sims Obadiah Walters Joel Witt N. Jarnagin Robert Caton William Garrett John Ray Chessley Jarnagin Enouch Winds Jeremiah Jarnagin |
Source: Tennessee Genealogical Society, “Ansearchin'” News, Winter, 1985, page 159.
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