Primary County: Davidson

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Purpose / Short Description: State objection to laying a new county from Davidson County

Text of Petition: We ___ Humble Petitiones do humbly apine your Worship that we woud wish to do any thing that would promote our country and the good of Individuals as far as we could consistent with reason and equality between our fellow country-men but -----e as there is a petition circulating with the intent of laying of a county we your Humble Petitioners after groaning some time Hoping that our opponents would take ye second thought but finding that they are still disirores to carry their wishes into effect we are under the disagreeable Nicpity of laying before your Worship our objections and complaints and hope to be heard first we object to the desired county for the following reasons ___z. first it appears to us that a part of the county must consistof a bed of Nobs which of course promipes no great things to promte the publick nor many individuals except it be for range and secondly we object because we think that the publick money laid out in building the Nifi_cery houses that would be required would promice but ___ ___ advantage to the p_______ our third objection is we presume it would take much ___ to open and prepare roads through such a broken part of the country and when they open we presume they would prove very disagreeable roads both to man and horse weiht for range for our horses and fourthly we object because our opponents wish to take of part of Davidson County to take out the desired spott these are complaints we your Humble Petitioners about to lay before your Worship and first part of us who have been for some length of time in this country have felt a willingnes to cast in our rites in order that our Davidson County might make the appearance it is worthy of raising a brick building for our superiers to serve us in Comfortable as well as other building that our superiers thought convenient we are still willing to west our selves and discharge the last farthing of that expense there is others of us that have more lately came to this country having cast our eyes around counting upon consinicnes and inconvencinces have given high for lands for agreeablancs of conveniency sake and also feel the same willingnes to promote the agreeable county that we now reside in - (Turn Over)

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