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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