Early Governors' Papers

Depth of which said mortal wound the said John Compton then and there instantly died and so the siad Ellis Thomas then and there feloniously killed and murdered the said John Compton against the peace and Dignity of the state.

And the said Jurors further say upon their oaths aforesaid that Ellis Thomas yeoman of this county as aforesaid did wilfully [sic], maliciously, voluntarily, and with malice of forethought murdered the said John Compton in manner and form as aforesaid at the house of Stuard Owens in Sevierville in [the?] County aforesaid on the night of the twelfth of October 1816

In Witness when of as will the aforesaid Coroner as the Jurors aforesaid have to this inquisition put their Seals on the day and year, and at the place above named -

Stuard Owens Coroner (seal)

Thomas Price (seal) foreman Alexander Preston (seal) Jeremiah Mathews (seal) John Clabaugh Sen (seal) Thomas Locke Sen (seal) John Williams (seal) Robert Lawson (seal) John Cannon (seal) Josiah Rogers (seal) William Cannon (seal) John Reid (seal) Anthony Lawson (seal)