Early Governors' Papers

truth that a whole community who were acquainted with their virtues, mourn the loss of the two young men who were slain. They were young men of promise and much esteemed by all who knew them. Porter has left his aged parents & a numerous train of relatives to lament his untimely death; Williamson a widowed mother & her large family of children overwhelmed with grief. We enclose you one of Major Porters advertisements containing a description of the two who have escaped. -

Columbia Oct 8^th 1825

Wm Pillow G. M. Martin Edw^d M Ford M. D. Cooper J. C. Hill Wilson White Saml Cauthers John Ferrel Hugh Douglas C. J. Noyes Ch^r Ford Alexander Ferris G Gallagher M. Rhea P. R. Booker

James K. Polk John [?] [Showp?] Thos White E. B. Dooley H O B. Newsum Joseph Hart Abner Pillow Jas C OReilly David Martin Saml M. Dorrel Robert Calvert P. Nelson David dugger

To His Excellency Newton Cannon Governor of the State of Tennessee

The undersigned President and Directors of the Columbia Central Turnpike Road hereby notify your Excellency that the sum of One hundred and fifty thousand dollars of the Stock of the Columbia Central Turnpike Road - being one half of the Capital Stock of said Road as the same is enlarged under the Charter - has been subscribed for - And that the Stockholders have paid to the Treasur-er of the company by order of the Board thirty per cent upon the amount so subscribed by them-

We hereby desire your Excellency to appoint on behalf of the State the State Directors and upon the proper certificates by the entire Board of the Bond, of the State for the Amount so paid in agreeably to law - Given under our hands this the 16th of July 1838 -

[P. R. Booker?] [President?] wit M. D. Cooper Lucius J. Polk G. A. Pillow J. B. Pillow James Walker [illegible] Polk

Directors

Gideon J. Pillow Will J. Polk