{"id":231,"date":"2025-12-13T01:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=231"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T06:54:44","slug":"first-court-of-roane-county-by-snyder-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/first-court-of-roane-county-by-snyder-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"First Court of Roane County, by Snyder Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Roots of Roane County, TN<\/em> by <strong>Snyder E. Roberts<\/strong> &#8212; Page 70<\/p>\n<p>Roane County\u2019s first Court was organized in 1801 at the house of <strong>Alexander Carmichael<\/strong>, with following commissioned Justices present:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hugh Nelson<\/strong>, Chairman<\/li>\n<li><strong>William White<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Samuel Miller<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Harrlson<\/strong> [<em>sic<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>Zacheus Ayers<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>George Preston<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Campbell<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>James Preston<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Isham Cox<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Barnett<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>George McPherson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Abraham McClellan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The court elected<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>(Gen.) John Brown<\/strong>, Sheriff<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Stone<\/strong>, Register<\/li>\n<li><strong>Henry Breazeale<\/strong>, Clerk<\/li>\n<li><strong>Daniel Rather<\/strong>, Coroner<\/li>\n<li><strong>George McPherson<\/strong>, Ranger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Appointed to a committee for the erection of a courthouse, prison and stocks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hugh Nelson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>John Smith T<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexander Carmichael<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Barnett<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Harralson<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Zacheus Ayers<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Roots of Roane County, TN by Snyder E. Roberts &#8212; Page 70 Roane County\u2019s first Court was organized in 1801 at the house of Alexander Carmichael, with following commissioned Justices present: Hugh Nelson, Chairman William White Samuel Miller Paul <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/first-court-of-roane-county-by-snyder-roberts\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-court-records","category-local-history-information","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}