PROCLAMATION TO ADD PART OF WILSON COUNTY
By Newton Cannon, Governor of the State of Tennessee.
WHEREAS, by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, passed January 13, 1838, entitled "an act to attach a part of Wilson County to the county of Cannon, and a part of Franklin County to the county of Coffee," Commissioners were appointed to open and hold an election on the first Saturday in February, inst., for the purpose or ascertaining whether the inhabitants of that portion of Franklin County designated in said act wish to be attached to the county of Coffee; and whereas, it appears from the return of said commissioners, that a majority of the qualified voters reading in said portion of Franklin County, voted in favor of being attached to the county of Coffee: Now, therefore, I, Newton Cannon, Governor as aforesaid, do hereby declare, make known and proclaim, "that so much of the county of Franklin as is contained in the following described bounds, viz: beginning at the south east corner of Coffee county, near --- streets, running a straight line from said corner to the mouth of Bradley's Creek onElk river; thence up said river, with its meanders, to Caldwell's old bridge; thence with the big road to the font of Cumberland mountain, near James Petty's; thence with the meanders of the foot of said mountain to the big road, known as Hollinsworth's trace; thence with said road to the Marion county line; thence with said line to the Warren county line; thence with said line to the Coffee county line; thence with said line to the beginning, including the settlemtns on the head of Elk River," is attached to the county of Coffee, and constitutes a portion thereof, to all intents and purposes, agreeably to the provisions of above recited act. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed at Nashville, the twenty-fourth day of February, 1838. N. Cannon By the Governor, Luke Lea, Secretary of State |