Primary County: Davidson

Date Filed (format: YYYY/MM/DD):

Petitioner(s):

Purpose / Short Description: Creating a new county

Text of Petition: 65-1803-1
To the Honourable, the General Assembly of the state
of Tennessee. The Petition of a number of Citizens
of Davidson & Williamson Counties humbly sheweth that
the vast extent of said Counties renders it inconveni-
ent for your petitioners to attend Courts General
Musters Elections &c ac. the towns of Nashville & Frank-
lin, & there being a sufficiency of territory agreeably
to the Constitution, to form a new County within
the bounds hereafter to be described & leaving Con-
-stitutional quantities within the bounds of the Old
Counties. All your Petitioners therefore pray that you
will consider our situation & Grant us a new County
with the following boundaries; viz: begining on the top
of a ridge dividing the Water of Stones River & Mills
Creek, in the Williamson County line, & run South-
wardly with said ridge so as to leave all the water
of Mills Creek & Harpeth in Williamson County, un-
-till the ridge intersects the now Eastern boundary line
of said Williamson County;- thence continue South
with said line of Williamson County to the South
boundary of this State;- thence with the State line
East to the Corner of Wilson County thence with
the line of Wilson County North & Northwardly
continuing with said County line to an El?? & ????
Ash, the corner of said County, which is north
East from the Mouth of Hurricane Creek; thence
Southward to the mouth of Hurricane Creek,
which is four Miles & thirty six poles; thence
from the Mouth of Hurricane Creek Southward
to the top of the first mentioned ridge; thence
with said ridge Southwardly to the begining. And
your petitioners as in duty bound, will ever pray.
August 10th 1803.
Consll Hardenson