{"id":508,"date":"2014-01-24T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/?p=508"},"modified":"2014-01-24T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T15:31:10","slug":"1799-petition-to-form-new-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/1799-petition-to-form-new-county\/","title":{"rendered":"1799 Petition to Form New County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petition 20-1-1799 to the Tennessee General Assembly<\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0 17 Oct 1799<\/p>\n<p>Petition of citizens of Hawkins County who live north of Clinch River and wish to be added to a new county, if one is formed from Grainger County, because they have &#8220;upwards of forty miles&#8221; to travel across mountains and rivers to attend County courts, musters, and elections.\u00a0 Signed by:<\/p>\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"248\">Valluntine<strong> Hatfield<br \/>\n<\/strong>Henry <strong>Guffee<br \/>\n<\/strong>Henry <strong>Guffee<\/strong> Jr.<br \/>\nWilliam <strong>Mannen<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Guffee<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Blevins<\/strong><br \/>\nW. R. <strong>Reynolds<\/strong><br \/>\nMathew <strong>Reynolds<\/strong><br \/>\n<del>_______ <strong>Reynolds<\/strong><\/del> [<em>as transcribed<\/em>]<br \/>\nAmos <strong>Reynolds<\/strong><br \/>\nWillem <strong>Evins<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Evins<\/strong><br \/>\nMicheal <strong>Conner<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Stroud<\/strong><br \/>\nRichard <strong>Hans<\/strong><br \/>\nThomas <strong>Hobbs<\/strong><br \/>\nJoseph <strong>Hans<\/strong><br \/>\nRichar [<em>sic<\/em>] <strong>Hains<\/strong><br \/>\nRandal <strong>Lawson<\/strong><br \/>\nDrewrey <strong>Lawson<\/strong><br \/>\nObadiah <strong>Hammons<\/strong><br \/>\nObadiah <strong>Hammons<\/strong> Jr.<br \/>\nObadiah <strong>Martin<\/strong><br \/>\nWilliamson <strong>Ternt<\/strong> [<em>sic<\/em>]<br \/>\nWilliam <strong>Trent<\/strong> Sr<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"248\">John <strong>Morgan<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Jones<\/strong><br \/>\nPeter <strong>Hammons<\/strong><br \/>\nJoseph <strong>Reeley<\/strong><br \/>\nWilliam <strong>Hunt<\/strong> [<em>or<\/em>] <strong>Hurt<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Turner<\/strong><br \/>\nJoh. [<em>sic<\/em>] <strong>Martin<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Fitzpatrick<\/strong><br \/>\nJames <strong>Fitzpatrick<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Fitzpatrick<\/strong> Jr.<br \/>\nThomas <strong>Fitzpatrick<\/strong><br \/>\nDaniel <strong>Fitzpatrick<\/strong><br \/>\nSamule [<em>sic<\/em>] <strong>Morgin<\/strong> [<em>sic<\/em>]<br \/>\nRichard <strong>Stephenson<\/strong><br \/>\nZachariah <strong>Rose<\/strong><br \/>\nMoses <strong>Gess<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Dunston<\/strong> or <strong>Sumter<\/strong> [?]<br \/>\nSomul [<em>sic<\/em>] <strong>Webster<\/strong><br \/>\nEdward <strong>Webster<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Webster<\/strong><br \/>\nDavid <strong>Fultington<\/strong><br \/>\nWm <strong>Belcher<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn <strong>Belcher<\/strong><br \/>\nPhilip <strong>Williams<\/strong><br \/>\nSherwood <strong>Reynolds<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Most of these individuals were associated with what is today Hancock County, Tennessee.\u00a0 Hancock formed in 1844 from Hawkins and Claiborne Counties.\u00a0 Claiborne was formed in 1801 from parts of Hawkins and Grainger Counties.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 Abstract of the petition, published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tngs.org\" target=\"_blank\">TN Genealogical Society<\/a>\u2018s <em>\u201cAnsearchin\u2019\u201d News<\/em>, Vol. 3, 1991, page 115.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petition 20-1-1799 to the Tennessee General Assembly Date:\u00a0 17 Oct 1799 Petition of citizens of Hawkins County who live north of Clinch River and wish to be added to a new county, if one is formed from Grainger County, because <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/1799-petition-to-form-new-county\/\"><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-508","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\/508","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=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}