Additional plaintiff - Samuel P. Cheatham Amount of damages $1413.33

Additional Defendants: Rush N. Wallace and Robert C. Jennings. Oversize

Plaintiff sued def. for $5,000 damages, charging that Hodges assaulted him on 29 July 1837 & beat him so severely that for a time it appeared he would not live.

Debt of $71.65 due by note.

Wright was executrix of will of Isaac Wright, deceased. The Heartsills claimed that the late Wright owed them for blacksmithing and other labor.

Additional defendants - Samuel Alsup, J. Alsup and Nathan A. Alsup Amount of debt - $350.00

Add. Defs: William Caldwell, Milton H. McSpaddon, Daniel Meek, Montgomery Thornburgh, Nathaniel Hann, Robert Martin, Samuel Moser [Maser?], Edward B. Snoddy, Edward Riggs, Thomas B. Rippato (all county justices who voted against Newman). Under TN law, illegal for defaulter to hold office. Def. adjudged Newman a defaulter (for state revenues unaccounted for by him as sheriff & collector), vacated his office, & elected new sheriff, Marcus J. Parrott. Newman said their action was illegal.

Petition against divorce, as his wife Polly had filed for divorce in Clarksville. He claims she is abusive and violent and threatened to pour melted lead in his ear while he sleeps.

Elias Imman, a colored man and former slave who bought his freedom as well as the freedom of his wife and their children listed above. Then, in 1842, Elias was called into court to answer Henry Smith on charge of debt, which Elias thought Smith had dismissed, only to find out later Smith had obtained judgment against him for $46. Henry Scruggs and Smith without notice and in the dark seized Elias' children as execution of judgment. Plaintiff suing for decree declaring his children free.

See additional documentation in Carrick Academy Chairman James Lewis, & trustees v. Solomon George & William Hinshaw box MT 4.

David Wilson claims to be the administrator of the estate of William L. Wilson who died in Holmes County, Mississippi. However, at the time of his death, James Caruthers stepped up as the administrator.

Additional Plaintiffs: John Hester, her husband and their children. Additional Defendants: Allen Y. Wilkinson and Tilman David

Additional defendants: Job W. Reeve & Clayton Reeve, surviving partners of Mark Reeve and Sons, and James J. Tipton. Embree sued defendants for debt of $1437.80. Defendants had no property which could have been levied upon. Embree sued to levy the improvements they built on Tipton's land, including: a cupola, nail factory, and mill to be sold and satisfy their debts.

Other defendants: John Roach.

Additional defendants: Charles Sagres, William Sagres, & N. B. Stewart. Debt was for failure to pay for merchandise purchased.

The debt was an amount under fifty dollars. Lovitt is also spelled Lovett in the document. Peterson is deceased and Morrow & Weir are the Administrators of the estate.

$2000 damages. This cause was the result of an accusation of a slanderous comment.

F. S. Rogers and W. F. Rogers were executors of the will of William Rogers. Text mostly illegible.