| 33-1-1803-1(1)Image Condition: Ink Smeared
Primary County: PLEASE SELECT
Date Filed (format: YYYY/MM/DD): 1803/01/33
Petitioner(s):
Purpose / Short Description:
Text of Petition (drag lower right corner to enlarge box): To the honourable the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee
of [Knoxville?] assembled 1803
We your petitioners inhabitants of the County aforementioned
impartially viewing the many wrongs and inconveniences
that we labour under with respect to our publick buildings
humbly request the interposition of your honourable body to
[regret?] our wrongs and to relieve us from being obliged to
travel to almost an outside and remote [first] of the County
two our Courthouse where at present is [first]
The distance from the State line which is also the County
line on the East and of the County to the Courthouse does not
exceed twenty miles which comprehends the part taken
off of Hawkins County which part we pray may continue
annual to Hawkins and may not the considered a part of
Claiborne County as we connect we have a sufficient boun-
day of Country to make a constitutional County with-
out it. The inconvenience is, it is a narrow and moun-
tanous pair but few inhabitants yet appears from some
partially or other to withhold justice from the other apart
of the County as they have unjustly drawn our
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| 33-1-1803-1(1)Image Condition: Ink Smeared
Primary County: PLEASE SELECT
Date Filed (format: YYYY/MM/DD): 1803/01/33
Petitioner(s):
Purpose / Short Description:
Text of Petition (drag lower right corner to enlarge box): To the honourable the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee
of [Knoxville?] assembled 1803
We your petitioners inhabitants of the County aforementioned
impartially viewing the many wrongs and inconveniences
that we labour under with respect to our publick buildings
humbly request the interposition of your honourable body to
[regret?] our wrongs and to relieve us from being obliged to
travel to almost an outside and remote [first] of the County
two our Courthouse where at present is [first]
The distance from the State line which is also the County
line on the East and of the County to the Courthouse does not
exceed twenty miles which comprehends the part taken
off of Hawkins County which part we pray may continue
annual to Hawkins and may not the considered a part of
Claiborne County as we connect we have a sufficient boun-
day of Country to make a constitutional County with-
out
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