Sevier served as the first governor of Tennessee, and as a US Representative. He was a commander during the American Revolution. In this letter, he directs the county sheriff to take George Howard if in his “bailiwick” to answer “a plea of trespass…to the damage of” John Hamilton in the amount of 1,000 pounds. Sevier signs as clerk of the court of pleas and sessions and has written out most of the document; Spruce Mackay, attorney for the plaintiff, has filled in days, months, names of parties and the offence, and signed at lower left. The document notes it is the fourth year of American Independence. Less than a year before he would be one of the heroes of the battle at Kings Mountain, S.C.
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