Early Governors' Papers

Greeneville 10th August 1802

His Excellency Arch^d Roane Esquire

Sir

On the first day of January last I received a commission accompanied with your letter of instruction and the law, which commission im= powered me to take into my possession the books of entry & locations call [?] Hardins office - In obedience to which I made all possible inquiry, after the books and after some time found they were not in Greene County but in the possession of Joseph Hardin Esquire of Knox County, I have twice since wrote him on the subject and beg an