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Knoxville 15 may 1818

Sir

your first and only resignation that has ever
come within my reach or knowledge, was put
in my hand yesterday, dated 10^th inst -

The earliest attention shall be paid
to the subject, as I presume the time
for holding courts in the 3^d circuit must be
fast approaching. mr Isaacks stands
highly recommended as any Gentlemen
can do, The signatures ^of ten Gentlemen your self one and
all the others ^Gentlemen of the Bar as I presume, are
attached to the recommendation, of mr
Isaacks, and I have frequently when speaking
of your successor, to those ^to whose claims
I was compelled to attend, altho the [sic] lived
out of the limits of the Circuit, I uniform^ly