Petition 3-3-1813 to the Tennessee General Assembly

Date:  19 Oct 1813

“Freeholders and inhabitants” of Rogersville, Hawkins County, petitioned the legislature to pass an act “to the effect that said petitioners shall not be obliged to repair roads outside their town.  They are compelled to repair a bridge and the streets of the town, and they feel they should be exempt from working on roads outside of town.  Signed by:

Andrew Campbell
Samuel Neill
Francis Dalzell
Benjⁿ Powel
George Etter
Joshua Russell
Hugh Greham [sic]
Henry Gibson
Wm A. Drasden [?]
P. Carey
Jn^o B. Wood
John N [or A] Nugent
James Kerr [or] Kern [?]
P. Parsons
H. Brown [or] Broden
Dicks [sic] Alexander
I [or J] Powel

Source:  Abstract of the petition, published in the TN Genealogical Society‘s “Ansearchin'” News, Vol. 2, 1990, page 65.