{"id":506,"date":"2014-01-24T03:55:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T08:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/?p=506"},"modified":"2014-01-24T03:55:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T08:55:46","slug":"1813-petition-regarding-road-repair-in-rogersville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/1813-petition-regarding-road-repair-in-rogersville\/","title":{"rendered":"1813 Petition Regarding Road Repair in Rogersville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petition 3-3-1813 to the Tennessee General Assembly<\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0 19 Oct 1813<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freeholders and inhabitants&#8221; of Rogersville, Hawkins County, petitioned the legislature to pass an act &#8220;to the effect that said petitioners shall not be obliged to repair roads outside their town.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Signed by:<\/p>\n<p>Andrew <strong>Campbell<\/strong><br \/>\nSamuel <strong>Neill<\/strong><br \/>\nFrancis <strong>Dalzell<\/strong><br \/>\nBenj<sup>n<\/sup> <strong>Powel<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge <strong>Etter<\/strong><br \/>\nJoshua <strong>Russell<\/strong><br \/>\nHugh <strong>Greham<\/strong> [<em>sic<\/em>]<br \/>\nHenry <strong>Gibson<\/strong><br \/>\nWm A. <strong>Drasden<\/strong> [?]<br \/>\nP. <strong>Carey<\/strong><br \/>\nJn<sup>o<\/sup> B. <strong>Wood<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn N [<em>or<\/em> A] <strong>Nugent<\/strong><br \/>\nJames <strong>Kerr<\/strong> [<em>or<\/em>] <strong>Kern<\/strong> [?]<br \/>\nP. <strong>Parsons<\/strong><br \/>\nH. <strong>Brown<\/strong> [<em>or<\/em>] <strong>Broden<\/strong><br \/>\nDicks [<em>sic<\/em>] <strong>Alexander<\/strong><br \/>\nI [<em>or<\/em> J] <strong>Powel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 Abstract of the petition, published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tngs.org\" target=\"_blank\">TN Genealogical Society<\/a>&#8216;s <em>&#8220;Ansearchin'&#8221; News<\/em>, Vol. 2, 1990, page 65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petition 3-3-1813 to the Tennessee General Assembly Date:\u00a0 19 Oct 1813 &#8220;Freeholders and inhabitants&#8221; of Rogersville, Hawkins County, petitioned the legislature to pass an act &#8220;to the effect that said petitioners shall not be obliged to repair roads outside their <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/1813-petition-regarding-road-repair-in-rogersville\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,25,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals","category-legislative-petitions-acts","category-local-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}