Early Governors' Papers

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His Excellency

Governor Roane Knox County Tennessee

[?] [?] 10 March

March the 4^th

Answered

March the 4^th 1803 Sulivan [sic] &c

Sir I beg lieve [sic] to inform you that M^r Williams is dead some time. before his death he removed from Blountsville [sic] to Elexander Laughlin in the uper [sic] end of this County, he has not transcribed the entry Books agreeable to your appointment last sumer [sic] & he had a very severe spell of the fever, which he did not recover so as to be fit for business to his death, he purchased a Completed bound Book & mad [sic] a rough draft to make him self more acquainted with the office but had not begun as I have been informed to make out the Coppy [sic] in the Book he purcesed [sic] for that purpose

the entry Books & locations have been put into the posession of M^r Laghlin