Excerpt from The Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee From Its Earliest Settlement Up to the Year 1796: Including the Boundaries of the State Under the early system of Tennessee, the judges of the Superior Court presided in the districts, as the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States do now. While he was on the bench, between 1812 and 1826, the time of his death, the changes were quite frequent, and during that time he had as his associates Judge John Overton, Hugh L. White, Robert Whyte, Archibald Roane, Thomas Emerson, Jacob Peck, William L. Brown, Samuel Powell, Harry W. Humphrey, John Catron, and George W. Campbell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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