First Session of the County Court
At this time the court system consisted
of a "Superior Court of Law and Equity" and an "Inferior Court
of Pleas and Quarter Sessions," commonly called the Superior
Court and the County Court. The Superior Court of Mero district,
which embraced the counties of Davidson, Sumner, and Tennessee,
held its sessions at Nashville. The County Court had
jurisdiction of all questions involving the life, liberty or
property of the citizen, as well as certain legislative
functions.
The court ordered the following jurors
to be summoned to its next term, to be held on the third Monday
in July, 1789, at Isaac Tittsworth's, to wit:
Jury
List
Thomas French
William Williams
Stephen Borin
Isaac Wilcox
Robert Edmonston
Charles McIntosh
William Grimbs
Jesse Cain
Daniel Flournoy
Samuel Hanley
Jacob McCarty
Josiah Ramsey
William Gales
Caleb Winters
Francis Prince
James Stewart |
William McClain
Isaac Pennington
James McFarland
John Wilcox
Hugh Lewis
John Codra
Archibald Mahon
John Tittsworth
William Conner
John Stonley
Richard Dodge
James Boyd
James Hollis Sr.
Charles Thompson
James Elliott
John McFarland |
Montgomery
County | AHGP Tennessee
Source: History of Tennessee, Goodspeed
Publishing Company, 1886
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