Early Governors' Papers

The [?] of the Marshal [?] of [Sarony?] Rob^t. Mack [?] DePriest Isaac J. Dobbins W^m. Pickard Saml. Craig W^m. M^c.Neill [?] Wood A. Saind K. Cherry Will. T. Lewis R.O. Dabny [?] [?] Samuel Pope

James Howard James Harby Absalom Rutledge Thomas [?] [?] John Griffin Claude M^cCallum Luke Patterson

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}