Early Governors' Papers

Paris Feby 26th 1828

Dear Sir

I had not intended procuring commendating letters for the appointment for which my name is before your excel -lency on the list of applicants, but from a conuersation which I held with Mr Hugh Dunlap in which he stated that you would be infuenced by recommendations of qualifications from the district. I haue been in-duced to abandon my original inention and haue forwarded to you letters from Judge Hamilton, J. S. W. Cooke, Colonels J. H. Dunlap and William Dunlap. James Hicks and Wenderson Lewis. General Cooke stated to me that as Mr Cotton and Capt Terrill had both applied to him before he had the least idea that I would be an applicant and he had refused writing in their behalf on the ground that each of them was in some sort a student of his, and as you were already in possession of his opinion in regard to my qualifications to fill this or any other appoint -ment connected with the administration of justice, he deemed it both unnecessary and improper to write Mr Dunlap, the present incumbent, stated to me that he had advised you of what you seemed already sufficiently aware, to wit, that the supreme court sits in tihs solicitaial district, and of the importance

John Leming A J malone Thomas Russell George Smith Robert Craig James M New Clements Satterfield Peter whitenberg John Whittenberg Stephen Alexander Jonathan Lints [?] W^m M. Crawford James Kerr Philip Wilhoike Wm Page John [?] John [?]

William Dunlap S. D. mitchell [Trd?] A. Ross A. B. Ross H Fain Jn. A. Rogers C M^cKinney Joseph M. Cullaugh John Scruggs W^m M. Stakeley D: Alexander Geo: Hale J. P. M^cCarthy Jn^o Johnston [W^m? ?] G C Mountcus