Early Governors' Papers

[?] M^r Cocke Gillespie

30 March 1796

Cumberland . . . 6 Knox . . . . . 3 Hawkins . . . . 2 Sullivan . . . . 2 Washington . . 1 Greene - 1 Jefferson - 2 Sevier - - - 1 Blount - - - 1

His Excellency Governor John Sevier

State of Tennessee Knox County

I Josiah Nichol one of the Justices in & for s^d county do Certify that Joseph Love Esq^r Sheriff of Knox County hath performed the duty enjoined on him by an act to provide for the Election of Electors of President & Vice President of the United States and that the sum of one dollar & sev= =enty five cents is due said Love for his services given under my hand & seal at Knoxville This 5^th November 1804

Josiah Nichol

John Sevier Governor

Examined & allowed Jn^o Goss Chm

State of Tennessee Knox County

I Josiah Nichol one of the Justices of said County do certify that William Mitchell Esq^r Sheriff of Seveir County hath performed the duty enjoined on him by an act to provide for the Election of Electors of President & Vice President of the United States & and it appears that the sum of five dollars & fifteen & one half cents is due to said Mitchell Given under my hand & seal at Knoxville this 5^th November 1804

Josiah Nichol

John Sevier Governor

Examined & allowed Jn^o Goss Ch^m

Archibald Roane Governor in and over the state of Tennessee

To the Honorable David Campbell, Andrew Jackson, and Hugh Lawson White, judges of the Superior Courts of law and Equity in and for the said state.-

The [Jailer?] of Knox County [by recipient?] to me that Stephen Duncan [illegible] Dixon and [illegible] Childress are now confined in the [Jail of?] Hamilton District on a charge of murder, and that he [illegible] Jail to be very [illegible] sufficient for the same keeping of said [illegible] [Thereby?] [illegible] to the [powers?] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [signing?] [entitled?] An Act in [Addition?] [to?] [the?] [act?] [illegible] an act to amend the act establishing courts of law and regulating the proceedings thereof, I do hereby empower you or any one of you to hold a court of [illegible] and Terminer pursuant to the thirty eighth section of the aforesaid [damage] amendatory act.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Tennessee to be affixed at Knoxville the 15th day of Juyly 1803.~

signed

Archibald Roane

By the Governor W^m Maclin Secretary

We the subscribers being duly qualified to hold an election at the Court House in Knoxville, on Tuesday the fifteenth day of September 1807, for a Captain, Lieutenant and Cornet for the troop of Horse of Knox County, do certify, that Alexander Coulter was elected Captain, Joseph Ashworth, Lieutenant, & James Campbell, Cornet, the two first officers having the whole number of the votes, & the Cornet a full majority of the same

Witness our hands and seals at the Court house in Knoxville, this fif= teenth day of September, 1807.

G. Roulstone Nath^l Cowane William H. Gibson