Early Governors' Papers

State of Tennessee 7th June 1796

Sir

A favourable opportunity having presented accidenteally presenting itself for the immediate Conveyance of a Communication to your Excellency, I do myself the honor, of informing your Excellency that your last dispatches forwarded to my predecessor Governor Blount respecting a waggon road being opened cut through the Western Mountains, was laid before the General Assembly, but that body being much eng =aged at the last sess in business of an Great importance at the time; and some obsticles appearing embarrasments being in the way, the legislature ha not easily surmounted: The legislature duly proceeded to Act as in the manner you will discover by the Resolve, I have herein inclosed. for Nevertheless I have the pleasure to inform you that the good Citizens of this State, have that road conceived themselves so much interested in haveing a waggon of the road, through the Mountains, that they have liberally contributed in such a manner ^so as to induce enable M^r Charles Robertson of Greene county, A Gentlem =an