Early Governors' Papers

And Deliberation that the Importance of the Different Subjects require

We beg leave no[w] Sir, to express our Gratification of being the witnesses of your being once more called by the unanimous suffrage of the free men of Tennessee to the Seat of the chief magistrate of the State, And expressing our fullest confidence, That you will continue to execute those duties which appertain to your office with that firmness, Judgment, and Impartiality which has heretofore Characterized the chief magistrate of Tennessee

John Cooke C H Alexander Outlaw Spk s[?] & W^m Dickson S. H. K

John Smith T.

His excellency Archibald Roan [sic] Esquire Knoxville

Map T. A. Smith

Mount Pisgah 23^rd August 1802

D^r Sir

I have purchased from M^r W^m Sharp (who you will see by the papers in the hands of my brother) held the Interest which Col^o Alexander Outlaw had in the Cum= berland Turnpike Company. I have assisted in the clearing the road agreeable to the act of Assembly, which is now ready to be reviewed. I hope your Excellen =cy will send the commissioners to report upon it at as early a date as may be convenient - you will oblige me Sir by informing me whether I cannot be incorporated in the company

in the place of Co^lo Outlaw upon complying with the requisitions of teh law without traveling the way round about way through which I now hold my interest.

I am with respect your Excellencys Ob^t & very H. Serv^t

Jn^o Smith. T.

Lawyer. To his Excellency John Sevier Governor &c.

Sir.

In the Suits William Lenoir & William T. Lewis Against Alexander Outlaw, David Campbell Thomas Eldridge James Winton, Nicolas Sterns, Hugh Kelsoe [sic], Richard Copeland, and the Heirs of Richard Price. And James Miller Complaint against James White Defendant, I am so interested, or connected with some of the parties, that I cannot sit as Judge on the Trials, consistant [sic] with the Laws of this State.

I am your Excellency's Ob^t. Serv^t.

David Campbell

State of Tennessee April 2^d. 1805}