Primary County: Davidson

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

Petitioner(s):

Purpose / Short Description:

Text of Petition: Assembly of the State of Tennessee -
??? your honourable body that there is a petition
??? body with a number of Subscribers names annexed
???ed off ^& Established Begining at the mouth of little Harpeth
??? the Indian boundary line. there ^a westerly & north westandly
???sect the beginning of the mouth of little harpeth
??? the said County should be Established it will be at
???y, in as much as it will Cra??? the limmitt of
???l number of Respectable Citizens who wish to
???ve to your honourable body we have heretofore
??? to Contribute to the Support ad to the Resp-
???ublic as well as individual ^interest a number of ^us have
???e with Chearfullness paid our proportionable
???ic building such as a Court house prison &
???illing to sacrafice all that we haue done
??? to be Discommoded for perhaps Eight or ten
??? of [noks?] & [bonrants?], a number others of us
??? the Circumstance above mentioned have ^been ??du??d
??? within the limmits of the new intended County
???n and is yet our wish to be And Continues
???s that no new County will be Establi
???ll ?????. Davidson County, nor alter its boun-
???ted to the wisdom & Iustice of your