9-1-1803-1

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Status: Needs Review

Primary County: PLEASE SELECT

Date Filed (format: YYYY/MM/DD):

Petitioner(s):

Purpose / Short Description: Petition for the formation of a new county

Text of Petition: 9-1-1803-1

To the Honorable Legislature of
of the State of Tennessee

The petition of {} Inhabi-
tants of the Counties of Robertson &
Montgomery Humbly showeth that
From the extreme inconvenience under
which they labour the distance being
From thirty upwards of fifty miles
to their Court House having to cross
Cumberland river and a very uneven road
your petitioners pray that in your wisdom
you cause to be laid out to them a new county bound
=aries as follows

Beginning on the Duck river ridge where
the North Boundary of Williamson county intersects
with said ridge running with said line
till It intersects the Davidson line thence
North to cumberland river thence down
said river with its various meanders until
It intersects with Bartens creek the thence up
said creek to the confluence of the {}
fork of said creek thence a Direct line that
will intersect the mouth of the Leatherwood fork
of yellow creek and continue with that same
course so far as will include six hundred
twenty five square miles thence a direct line to the beginning
and your petitioners will Ever pray &c

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