Petition to Establish a Precinct Election Ground at Greasy Cove, TN [Transcriber's note: This is a petition filed in 1821 from the residents of Greasy Cove (now Erwin, Unicoi County, Tennessee) to the County Clerk of Washington County, TN. This section of Washington County became Unicoi County in 1875. The original document can be found in the Washington County, TN Courthouse.] 1821 Petition for Election Ground at Greasy Cove To the worshipful County Clerk of Washington County The petition of the subscribers humbly represents. That owing to the distance from their several residence to the court known of said County and the interposition of mountains and streams very often impassable they are prevented from attending Elections with regularity and very often prevented exercising the rights and privledges of suffrage and in as much as the election of legislative members is a matter of deep interest to every man in this Elective Government we therefore pray agreably to the act passed October the 31th, 1821 Empowering the County Clerk so to do that your worships would establish a precinct Election Ground and for the information of your worships we the subscribers would deem it most expedient and convenient from ourselves that said Election Ground be fixed at the house of Capt. William Brown in the Greasy Cove and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray. William Brown William Moore David Carder David Moore Peley Tilson Arnold Shelton Abraham Tinker David Ambrose(?) William Clouse James Tinker William Tilson Hardon Norress Wm S. Erwin John Nelson Jessee Tinker Harlen Ambrose James Harris John Ambrose Richard Deakins James Ambrose William Murry John Rosse John Tilson James Job John Brown Joseph Sherrel Thomas Fortune George M. Hains Joseph Tilson Charles Barry George Moore John Moore ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Javan Michael DeLoach ====================================================================