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Fort Blount April 23^rd 1800

Dear Sir

Your friend M^r Fisk will hand you this
to whom I Shall refer you for the news of this
part of the Country, and at his request together
with the request of a number of other Gentlemen
living on Obeds & roaring rivers, I take the liberty
to inform your Excellency, that the seat of
W^m Alexander Esq^r was a who was appointed and
and commissioned last Assembly as a Justice
of the peace for the County of Smith has become
vacant, by his living in Sumner County, and by the
14 Sec^t of the 2^ond article of our State constitution
it is in your power to fill all vacancies which
may happen by a temporary appointment during
the recess of the Assembly, and Should you think
proper to make the appointment, I think
it would be doing nothing but Justice to select
the most proper charactar [sic] you could on Obeds
or roaring rivers as they have only one Justice
for that remote Scattered Settlement -

I have Honor to be your Excellencys
most Obed^t Serv^t

S. Williams