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Carthage Decbr 24" 1815

Sir

In August last I mentioned to you, that I contemplated resigning at the close of the present year, and that no inconvience might result therefrom, you could be fixing your mind upon a Successor_

You will please consider this, as my resignation, of the Office of Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals, in, and for, the State of Tennessee, from and [the?] thirty first day of the present month

Had it been possible consistent with other matters, requiring my personal attention, to have held the office, until I could have resigned the appointment, to the same body who honored me with it, I should have felt a great willingness to have done so: but circumstances which it is useless to explain forbid that course

Permit me through your Excellency, to tender to the General Assembly, my sincere acknowledgements, for the confidence they have heretofore reposed in me, and to assure them, that in whatever situation, I may hereafter

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be placed, I shall feel an anxious solicetude [?}, for the prosperity and happiness of our common country_

I have the honor to be with great respect your Excellency's most obt servant

H.L. White

His Excellency Willie Blount Nashville

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Judge White's Letter of resignation 1815