{"id":405,"date":"2022-01-09T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T22:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/?p=405"},"modified":"2022-01-09T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T22:27:22","slug":"bledsoe-countians-1817-petition-to-erect-a-penitentiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/bledsoe-countians-1817-petition-to-erect-a-penitentiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bledsoe Countians&#8217; 1817 Petition To Erect a Penitentiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Honorable, The Speakers and Members of the Legislature of the State of Tennessee, when in Session.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The humble petition of your memorialist:<\/p>\n<p>As this county believe a penitentiary would be of great benefit to the state, Therefore it is the humble prair of your petitioners that your honorable body will in your wisdom, take it into consideration and your petitioners in duty bound shall ever pray<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 9th 1817<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Terry<br \/>\nAquilla Johnson<br \/>\nBenjamin Henson<br \/>\nJames Roberson<br \/>\nIsaac Stephens<br \/>\nJohn Henninger<br \/>\nSilas Morgan<br \/>\nJesse Walker<br \/>\nDavid Rainey<br \/>\nWilliam Christian<br \/>\nMichael Rawlings<br \/>\nSeymour? Braden<br \/>\nThomas Vernon<br \/>\nIsaac Runyon<br \/>\n(indescipherable, maybe Jacoby)<br \/>\nIsaac Runyon<br \/>\nJesse Lewis<br \/>\nRobert Lowery<br \/>\nRobert Lowery<\/p>\n<p>The document is very difficult to read. Many thanks to Miss Elizabeth Robnett for her help with the transcription. Anyone with an ancestor who might be named something that looks like Shem B Jacoby is invited to help us correctly list that name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honorable, The Speakers and Members of the Legislature of the State of Tennessee, when in Session. The humble petition of your memorialist: As this county believe a penitentiary would be of great benefit to the state, Therefore it is the humble prair of your petitioners that your honorable body will in your wisdom, take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-petitions-acts"],"modified_by":"TNGenWeb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bledsoe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}