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WELCH & DOUGLASS, cigar and fruit store, cor of Deaderick and Cherry sts.
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WELCH, P, above firm, 56 N Cherry st.
Welch, William, 86 S College st.
Welch, Pat, 97 S Market st.
Welcker, D C, attorney-at-law, 72 N Cherry st, up stairs.
WELLER & COOK, stove, tin, copper, and sheet iron manufao- turers, 35 S Market st.
Weller, B S, jun, bookkeeper, 35 S Market st.
WELLER, B S, agricultural and seed depot, 35 S Market st, res. 29 S Cherry st.
WELLS, Dr T, druggist and apothecary, 32 N Market st.
Wells, J, carpenter, S end of Front st.
Wells, Francis, near Sulphur spring, N Cherry st.
Wells, George H, gas fitter, 40 S College st.
Wells, J, marketer, S Front st.
WESSEL & THOMPSON, confectioners, and dealers in fine wines, etc., 42 Union st.
WESSEL, G H, above firm, 42 Union st.
Wessell, R, chair painter, 21 N College st.
WEST, JOHN B, dealer in music and musical instruments, 43 Union st.
West, James, Murfreesboro' pike, S Nashville.
West, Charles, laborer, Lebanon pike, S Nashville.
WEST, WILLIAM E, bookkeeper, 43 Union st.
Watterau, C, 8 Broadway.
Wharton, S, clerk, 5 & 6 Public Square.
WHARTON, Dr WM H, office cor Summer and Broad sts, res. Demumbrane st, above High.
Wharton, Wm H, shipping clerk, S Nashville.
WHARTON, C J F, Secretary and Treasurer Mutual Protection Insurance Co, 93 Spring st.
Wharton, John, Summer st, S Nashville.
Wharton, S S, clerk, 93 Spring st.
Wharton, John C, clerk, 93 Spring st.
Whealan, P, cabinet maker, 110 S Market st.
Wheelel, L D, clerk, Cherry st, S Nashville.
Wheeler, D W, bookkeeper, 71 Public Square.
WHELESS, ALEXANDER, firm of James D James & Co, res. 34 N College st.
WHELESS, W, broker, res. Edgefield.
Wheless, John F, runner, Bank of Nashville.
WHELESS, A, banker, 1 N Summer st.
Wheless, Joseph, cor clerk, Bank of Nashville.
WHELESS, W T, teller, Bank of Nashville, 39 N College st. Wherry, W A, clerk, 23 Public Square, res. 50 Cherry st. Whitaker, A L, clerk, 46 Public Square.
Whitaker, George, Cherry st, S Nashville.
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Whitaker, A J, clerk, 112 N College st.
White, E, blacksmith, Edgefield.
White, Patrick, 162 N College st.
White, R L, 31 S Summer st.
White, George, wagoner, Edgefield.
WHITE, J B, deputy clerk Chancery Court, res. 3 miles on Louis- ville branch pike.
White, W H, tinsmith, cor Market st and Murfreesboro' pike.
White, Thomas, forwarder, Book Concern.
White, J A, family grocery, Cherry st, S Nashville.
White, Thos E, bootmaker, N Market st. .
White, Mrs, Market st, S Nashville.
White, W, colored, 184 N College st.
W. S. WHITEMAN, PAPER MANUFACTORY, LOCATED EIGHT MILES ON WHITE'S CREEK PIKE. Paper Warehouse, 53 Public Square, Nashville, Tenn. Res. at the manufactory.
Whitley, R H, 77 N College st.
. Whitley, B, clerk, 9 Public Square. Whitley, R H, 77 College st. Whittington, Dr, Edgefield.
Whitt, Joseph, carpenter, 164 S Cherry st.
Wiemer, G N, shoe shop, 26 Deaderick st.
Wiemers, Wm, shoemaker, 120 S Cherry st. Wiggs, A R, editor, 61 N Market st.
Wilcox, -, machinist, Cherry st, S Nashville.
WILKERSON, W H, constable, Cherry st, S Nashville. Wilkerson, J, stable keeper, Deaderick st, res. 6 S Market st. Wilkes, W, carpenter, Lebanon pike, S Nashville.
WILKIN, D F, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, office 70 N Cherry, res. 22 N Vine st.
WILKIN, JOSEPH, attorney-at-law, 70 N Cherry st.
Willard, James N, Jenny Lind saloon, 25 Cedar st, res. 96 N Cherry st.
WILLIAMSON, ALEXANDER, firm of E S Cheatham & Co, W Nashville.
Williamson, Miss Martha, 120 N Front st.
Williamson, -, clerk, Demumbrane st, S Field. Williamson, W, Cherry st, S Nashville.
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Williams & Parkhurst, silver plating, 6 Deaderick st.
Williams, A B, above firm, 74 Union st.
Williams, W, ladies' shoemaker, 13 N High st, res. 52 Gay st.
Williams, B F, proprietor of Williams' Sarsaparilla and Iodide Potassi, office 23 Broad st, res. 34 S High st.
Williams, O P, cabinet maker, 94 Broad st.
Williams, N B, 86 Mclemore st.
Williams, S S, 15 Broad st.
Williams, George L, carpenter, 56 N Spruce st.
Williams, H C, clerk, 31 Cedar st.
Williams, L, 16 Franklin st.
WILLIAMS, R N, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 68 N Cherry st.
Williams, Alexander, Edgefield.
Williams, W, laborer, Lebanon pike, S Nashville.
Williams, Mrs S, Lebanon pike, S Nashville.
Williams & Rollins, barbers, 21 N Market st.
Williams, John, colored, barber, 131 N Market st.
Williams, Nancy, colored, 34 Line st.
Willis, Mrs Julia H, 42 N Spruce st.
Willis, B H, student, High, south of Demumbrane st.
Wilsford, W C, clerk, 65 S Market st.
Wills, John, Cherry st, S Nashville.
Wilson, J H, printer, Book Concern.
Wilson, John, engineer, waterworks, near the city.
Wilson, J W, College st, opposite Medical College.
Wilson, J W, Jr, clerk, College st, opposite Medical College.
Wilson, D, tinner, 17 N College st.
Wilson, R, blacksmith, College st, S Nashville.
Wilson, E, laborer, Lebanon pike, S Nashville.
Wilson, James E, saddle and harness maker, 23 N Market st.
Wilson, J W, bookkeeper, 17 N College st.
Wilson, Aubrey, carpenter, 32 N Vine st.
Wilson, Mrs E V, 32 N Vine st.
Wilson, Mrs Ann E, 10 S High st.
Wilson, L A, civil engineer, 61 N Market st.
JAMES WILSON, COLORED HACKMAN, 2 NORTH FRONT STREET. HACKS TO HIRE. PERSONS TAKEN TO AND FROM THE DEPOT.
Hacks always ready for the accommodation of persons wishing to ride. Charges moderate.
Winfrey, Samuel, clerk, Vine st, S Field.
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Winfrey, A J, clerk, 20 Broadway.
Winham, Edward, printer, 52 N Summer st.
Winham, Travis, printer and boarding-house, President of Typo- graphical Union, 52 N Summer st.
Winham, James, clerk, cor Market and Broad sts. WINSTON, Dr JD, office 25 N Cherry st, res. 30 N Summer st. WINSTON, Dr C K, office 25 N Cherry st, res. Summer st, S Nashville.
Winter, Edward, shoemaker, 59 N McLemore st.
Winter, William, shoemaker, cor Cedar and Mclemore sts.
Winter, Benjamin, ladies' shoemaker, 59 Spring st.
Winter, William, shoemaker, 33 N Spruce st.
Winter, John, 59 N McLemore st.
Wise, E, miilinery establishment, 46 Union st, res 21 S High st. Wisenberger, George, shoemaker, S Summer st.
Witty, John, coppersmith, Summer st, S Nashville.
WOEHRLE, JOHN, cigar manufacturer, 32 S Market st.
Woehrle, Lewis, clerk, 32 S Summer st.
Wolfenden, J finisher, S Nashville. Wolfenden, H, finisher, Cherry st, S Nashville.
Wolf, E, firm of Milius & Wolf, 98 Cherry st.
Woodbury, S H, clerk, cor Market and Broad sts.
Woodcock, Mrs Margaret, College st, south of Broad.
WOOD, DR B, DENTIST, 30 N CHERRY ST.
Woodfin, Mrs S, College st, S Nashville.
Woodfolk, W W, Spruce st, S Field.
Woodruff, Mrs M, 130 S Cherry st.
Woodruff, John, 130 S Cherry st.
WOODS, YEATMAN & Co, Cumberland Iron Store, 18 N Col- lege st.
Woods, James, above firm, res. S Field.
WOODS & Co, lard-oil depot, 27 S Market st. WOODS, JAMES A, above firm, res. 22 miles on Franklin pike.
Woods, J L, above firm, res. 2} miles on Franklin pike.
WOODS, JAMES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 68 N Cherry st, res. 134 N Market st.
Woods, E L, 134 N Market st.
Woods, Robert F, 11 N High st.
Woods, Eliza, colored, 72 N Mclemore st.
Woods, Joseph, 25 N High st.
Woodson, P'S, printer, 58 N College st.
WOODWARD, Dr P S, office, 27 N Cherry st.
Woodward, Benjamin, surveyor, Cherry st, S Nashville. Woodward, Mrs, Summer st, S of Broad.
Woodward, George, policeman, 58 Line st.
Wooldridge, Henry, 165 N Cherry st.
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Wooten, Miss Mary, 122 N College st.
Work, Miss Edith, 66 Gay st. Work, E E, stonecutter, 66 Gay st. Work, Samuel H, stonecutter, 66 Gay st.
Work, R, stonecutter, 84 S Market st. Wormleighton, Henry, moulder, Edgefield.
Worrell, L E, carpenter, 132 S Cherry st.
D. S. WRIGHT, HOUSE CARPENTER AND FANCY JOB WORKMAN, NORTH-EAST CORNER PUBLIC SQUARE. Refers to A. H. Hicks, Dr. R. M. Porter, S. M. Scott, H. G. Scovel, Dr C. K. Winston, J. J. Toon.
Wright, Daniel S, carpenter, 63 N Market st.
Wright, George, warehouseman, Book Concern.
Wright, Aaron, plasterer, 21 N Summer st.
Wright, T C, merchant, 21 N Summer st. Wright, William, carpenter, 58 Gay st.
Wright, William, stonecutter, 94 Line st.
Wright, Mrs John, 30 N High st. Wright, Mrs Sarah, 57 N Spruce st. Wright, J B, clerk, 21 Cedar st. WRIGHT, THOS, firm of Evans, Porter & Co, 21 N Summer st. Wright, John, painter, 29 Union st.
Wright, James, carpenter, High st, S Nashville.
Wright, Charles, plasterer, Cherry st, S Nashville.
Wright, Mrs Mary, College st, S Nashville. Wright, John O, carpenter, Edgefield. Wright, W T, clerk, 28 N College st. Wright, M, wagoner, Summer st, S Nashville.
Wright, Cupid, colored, 29 Crawford st. Wrightman, Daniel, coachsmith, 82 N High st.
Wyatt, F, engineer, 149 N Market st.
WYLY, J J, mail contractor. Tri-weekly, via Jackson, to Mem- phis, office, 24 Cedar st.
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Yarboro, J, carpenter, 16 S College st, res. College st, S Nash- ville.
Yarbrough, W, policeman, 170 S Cherry st.
Yarbrough, W, Jr, carpenter, 170 S Cherry st. Yates, D, Cherry st, S Nashville. .
Yeargin, Jas A, firm of Minor & Yeargin, 50 S Market st.
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YEATMAN, JOHN, commission merchant, 41 S Market st, res. 25 S Spruce st.
YEATMAN, H T, grocer and commission merchant, 41 S Market st, res. cor of High and Union sts. Yeatman, George E, salesman, 54 Public Square.
Yeatman, H C, firm of Woods, Yeatman & Co, City Hotel.
JOHN YORK & CO., BOOK AND STATIONERY STORE, CORNER UNION AND CHERRY STS. BOOK BINDERY AT SAME PLACE.
York, John, above firm, Verandah Hotel.
Yorker, M, finisher, 27 S Front st.
YOUNG, DR JOHN S, office, corner Summer and Broad sts, res. 104 Broad st.
Young, A, proptr Crutcher House, cor Church and Summer sts. Young, Rev R 'M, 110 N Market st.
Young, John, printer, 61 N Market st.
Young, H, printer, 11 Deaderick st.
Young, W, finisher, 27 S Front st.
Young, Mark, blacksmith, cor College and Gay sts, res. 5 Gay st. Young & Skipworth, tinsmiths, Cherry st, S Nashville.
Young, J H, blacksmith, 93 N College st.
Young, A, carpenter, 60 S Market st.
Young, Wm, bootmaker, S Market st.
Young, Jacob, 18 Cedar st.
Young, Wm B, 22 N Cherry st.
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Zachery, Mrs Lucinda, Demumbrane st.
Zanone, Mrs Mary, boarding-house, 91 S Market st.
Zeutzschel, C J, shoe and boot maker, 34 Union st.
Zimmerman, J M, wholesale druggist, 46 N Market st, res. 20 Cedar st.
ZOLLICOFFER, HON F K, old Franklin pike. Zuccarello, Joseph, finisher, 92 Broad st. Zuccarello, S, moulder, College st, S Nashville.
Great Southern Depot and General Agency for the sale of Every Description of Manufactured articles and of Merchandize. BENJ. F. SHIELDS, 42 Public Square.
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Early Settlement of Tennessee and Hashbille.
As early as 1714, Monsieur Charleville, a Frenchman, opened a store, and traded with the Shawnee Indians, on the bluff where Nashville now stands.
In 1748, Dr. Thomas Walker of Virginia, in company with Colonels Wood, Patton, and Buchanan, and Captain Charles Campbell, and a number of hunters, made an exploring tour upon the western waters. Passing Powell's valley, he gave the name of " Cumberland" to the lofty range of mountains on the west. Tracing this range in a southwestern direction, he came to a remarkable depression in the chain : through this he passed, calling it "Cumberland Gap." On the western side of the range he found a beautiful mountain stream, which he named "Cum- berland river," all in honor of the Duke of Cumberland, then prime minister of England. These names have ever since been retained, and, with Loudon, are believed to be the only names in Tennessee of English origin.
The following inscription may still be found on a beach-tree, standing near the stage-road between Jonesboro and Knoxville: "D. Boon Cilled A. Bar on Tree in the year 1760."
In 1761, Wallen, Scaggs, Blevins, Cox, and fifteen others, chiefly from Virginia, came into the valley, since known as Car- ter's Valley, and hunted eighteen months.
The Indian boundary, as adjusted at Hard Labor, in October,
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1768, had given the assent of the Cherokees to a further expan- sion of the Holston settlements ; and late in December, 1768, and early in January of 1769, was formed the nucleus of the first per manent establishment of the white race in Tennessee. There had been a settlement at Long Island Fort and Fort Loudon as early as 1758, but was soon broken up.
The general assembly of North Carolina, in November, 1777, formed Washington district into & county of the same name, assigning to it the boundaries of the whole of the present great State of Tennessee. By an act passed at the same session, estab- lishing Entry Takers' offices in the several counties, " lands which have accrued or shall accrue to the State by treaty or conquest," are subject to entry, etc.
At the same session of the assembly, provision was made for opening a land-office in Washington county, at the rate of forty shillings per hundred acres, with the liberal permission to each head of a family to take up six hundred and forty acres himself, one hundred acres for his wife, and the same quantity for each of his children. The law provided that the Watauga settlers should not be obliged to pay for their occupancies till January of 1779, and then for any surplus entered above the quantity before mentioned, the purchaser was required to pay five pounds per hundred.
The facility of taking up the choice lands of the country, induced great numbers of persons, principally those without means to emigrate to the frontier. A poor man, with seldom more than a single pack-horse on which the wife and infant were carried, with a few clothes and bed-quilts, a skillet and a small sack of meal, was often seen wending his way along the narrow mountain trace, with a rifle upon his shoulder-the elder sons carrying an axe, a hoe, sometimes an auger and a saw, and the older daughters leading or carrying the smaller children. With- out a dollar in his pocket when he arrived at the distant frontier, the emigrant became at once a large land-holder. Such men laid the foundation of society and government in Tennessee. They brought no wealth with them, but what was far better, they had industrious and frugal habits, they had hardihood and enterprise,
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and fearlessness and self-reliance. With such elements in the character of its pioneers, any community will soon subdue the wilderness to the purposes of agriculture.
The Lower Cumberland continued to be visited and explored farther. Richard Hogan, Spencer, Holliday and others, came this year from Kentucky, in search of good lands, and with the intention of securing some for themselves as permanent settle- ments, they planted a small field of corn in the spring of 1778. This first plantation, in Middle Tennessee, was near Bledsoe's Lick. A large hollow tree stood near the Lick. In this Spencer lived. He was pleased with the prospects for further settlement which the situation afforded, and could not be induced to relin- quish them and return home, as Holliday in vain persuaded him to do. The former, however, determined to leave the wilderness, but having lost his knife, was unwilling to undertake his long travel without one, with which to skin his venison and cut his meat. With backwoods generosity and kindness, Spencer accom- panied his comrade to the Barrens of Kentucky, put him on the right path, broke his knife and gave him half of it, and returned to his hollow tree at the Lick, where he passed the winter. Spencer was a man of gigantic stature, and passing one morning the temporary cabin erected at a place since called Eaton's Sta- tion, and occupied by one of Captain DeMumbrune's hunters, his huge tracks were left plainly impressed in the rich alluvial. These were seen by the hunter on his return to the camp, who, alarmed at their size, immediately swam across the river, and wandered through the woods until he reached the French settle- ments on the Wabash.
Nearly ten years had now elapsed since the germ of a civilized community had been planted in Upper East Tennessee. No settlement had yet been permanently fixed on the Lower Cumber- land. A hunter's camp, and the lonely habitation of Spencer, were all that relioved the solitude, or lightened the gloom of that western wilderness. But the cheerlessness of barbarian night was about to be dissipated by the dawn of civilization and im- provement. In the early spring of 1779, a little colony of gallant adventurers, from the parent hive at Watauga, crossed the Cum-
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berland Mountain, penetrated the intervening wilds, and pitched their tents near the French Lick, and planted a field of corn where the city of Nashville now stands. This field was at the spot where Joseph Park since resided, and near the lower ferry. These pioneers were Captain James Robertson, George Freeland, William Neely, Edward Swanson, James Hanly, Mark Robert- son, Zachariah White, and William Overhall. A negro fellow also accompanied them. To their number was added, immedi- ately after their arrival at the Lick, a number of others conducted by Mansco, who had ten years before visited, and explored, and hunted in the country. Those cmigrants also planted corn pre- paratory to the removal of their families in the succeeding autumn. Captain Robertson, during the summer, went to the Illinois to purchase the cabin rights from General Clarke. After the crop was made, Overhall, White, and Swanson, were left to keep the buffaloes out of the unenclosed fields of corn, while the rest of the party returned for their families.
Mansco, Frazier, and other early hunters and explorers, upon their previous return to the older settlements, had diffused an ac- count of the fertility of the Cumberland lands, the abundance of game, and the salubrity of the climate. This account was now confirmed and extended, by the experiment that had been made by the parties under Robertson and Mansco, in planting and raising a crop. Cumberland became the theme of eager conver- sation in every neighborhood, and great numbers prepared to emigrate to this land of future plenty and of promise. Under the lead of Mansco, several families removed and settled at Mansco's Lick, Bledsoe's Lick, and other places. John Rains and others, in October of this year, leaving New River, on their way to Ken- tucky, were persuaded by Captain Robertson to accompany him to the French Lick. Assenting to this proposal, they were soon joined by several other companies of emigrants-the whole amounting to two or three hundred, many of them young men without families-some of them took out cattle and other domes- tic animals. The route pursued was by Cumberland Gap, and the Kentucky trace to Whitley's Station, on Dick's River ; thence to Carpenter's Station, on the waters of Green River; thence to
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Robertson's Fork, on the north side of that stream; thence down the river to Pitman's Station ; thence crossing and descending that river to Little Barren, crossing it at the Elk Lick ; thence passing the Blue Spring and the Dripping Spring to Big Barren ; thence up Drake's Creek to a bituminous spring ; thence to the Maple Swamp ; thence to Red River, at Kilgore's Station ; thence to Mansco's Creek ; and from there to the French Lick.
When the first settlers came to the Bluff in 1779-80, Haywood says the country had the appearance of one which had never before been cultivated. There was no sign of any cleared land nor other appearance of former cultivation. Nothing was pre- sented to the eye but one large plain of woods and cane, frequented by buffaloes, elk, deer, wolves, foxes, panthers, and other animals suited to the climate. The lands adjacent to the Franch Lick, which Mansco, in 1769, when he first hunted here, called an old field, was a large open space, frequented and trodden by buffaloes, whose large paths led to it from all parts of the country and there concentred. On these adjacent lands was no under-growth nor cane, as far as the water reached in time of high water. The country, as far as to Elk River and beyond it, had not a single permanent inhabitant, except the wild beasts of the forest; but there were traces, as everywhere else, of having been inhabited many centuries before by a numerous population. At every lasting spring is a large collection of graves, made in a particular way, the whole covered with a stratum of mould and dirt, eight or ten inches deep. At many springs is the appear- ance of walls enclosing ancient habitations, the foundations of which were visible whenever the earth was cleared and culti- vated ; to these walls entrenchments were sometimes added. The walls sometimes enclose six, eight, or ten acres of land, and some- times they are more extensive.
The first ten years of its existence, the young community west of the mountain maintained a compact form, and could assume a defensive attitude upon any sudden alarm. Its gradual expan- sion served also to quiet Indian jealousy of encroachments from the whites. But, almost imperceptibly, the seed of civilization had been planted, was firmly fixed in the soil, was germinating
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under successful culture, was producing its fruits of permanent society and established government. Its eradication was impos' sible. Still, it was found necessary to restrain the too rapid expansion of the frontier. The general assembly of North Caro- lina deemed it inexpedient to continue the Land Office open, and accordingly, in June of 1781, closed it. It was not opened again till after the end of the revolutionary war. In May of 1783, the assembly opened an office for the sale of western lands, for the purpose of paying the arrears then due the officers and soldiers of that part of the continental line which was raised in North Caro- lina, and of extinguishing her part of the national debt.
At Jonesboro', in Washington county, the first court-house in Tennessee was erected. It was built of round logs, fresh from the adjacent forest, and was covered, in the fashion of cabins of the pioneers, with clap-boards.
Davidson County was erected in 1783 and embraced the whole of Middle and West Tennessee-a large county.
APRIL SESSION, 1784.
An Act establishing a Town on the Cumberland River, at a place called the Bluff, near the French Lick.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, And it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that the directors or trussees, hereafter appointed, or a majority of them, shall, so soon as may be, after the passing of this act, cause two hundred acres of land, situate on the South side of Cumberland River, at a place called the Bluff, adjacent to the French Lick, in which said Lick shall not be included, to be laid off in lots of one acre each, with convenient streets, lanes, and alleys, reserving four acres for the purpose of erecting public buildings, on which land so laid off, according to the directions of this act, is bereby constituted, erected, and established a town, and shall be called and known by the name of NASHVILLE, in memory of the patriotic and brave General Nash.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, Samuel Barton, J Thomas Malory, Daniel Smith, James Shaw, and Isaac Lindsay 2
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be, they and every of them, are hereby constituted Directors and Trustees, for erecting and laying out, and carrying on the said Town, and they shall stand seized of an indefeasible estate in fee of the said two hundred acres of land, to and for the uses, intents and purposes hereby expressed and declared.
The lots contained each one acre, valued at four pounds, and drawn for as in a lottery. [James Robertson, Esq., had first choice of four lots, for which he paid the same amount.
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Water street was laid off in 1786. At the same time a lot was appropriated on the Public Square for the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the same liberal policy was extended to other Churches, as soon as they might be ready to build.
An order was passed for the building of a market-house in 1801. The first warehouse was built by John Harman, on the land of John McNairy, Esq., near the mouth of the Lick Branch.
An act was passed, in 1806, to incorporate the inhabitants of the Town of Nashville. After this, the jurisdiction of the Town passed from the State of North Carolina to the board of mayor and aldermen of Nashville.
The first legislative assembly was held in 1785, in the town of Jonesboro'. John Sevier was elected governor, David Campbell, judge of the Superior Court, and Joshua Gist and John Ander- son, assistant judges. The State, at this time, and for several years after, was called Franklin.
For more than ten years, the new settlements of Tennessee had the fullest trial of their courage and patriotism. Even the wo- men furnished such examples as might cause a nation's pulse to beat with pride.
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