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- Oath as Major of Shenandoah Co. Militian February 28, 1782
Jeremiah Mathes, Minute Book 1, Jefferson Co., TN, refers to the first legislative act passed in what is now the State of Tennessee.
"BE IT REMEMBERED That in pursuance of an Ordinance of Excellency William Blount, Governor of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio circumscribing the counties of Greene and Hawkins and laying off two new counties, to-wit, the counties of Jefferson and Knox, a court was opened and held in and for said County of Jefferson at the house of Jeremiah Mathews, on Monday the 23rd day of July, 1792 when the following Justices of the Peace, having been commissioned and qualified on the 11th day of June preceding, appeared and took their oaths, to-wit, Alexander Outlaw, George Doherty, James Roddye, John Blackburn, James Lea, Joseph Wilson, Josiah Jackson, Andrew Henderson, Amos Balch and Wm. Cox, Esquires."
Jeremiah Mathes m. Oct. 9, 1788, Elizabeth Leith, bond signed by Alexander Mathews and A. M. Yancey -- (Jefferson Co., TN Marriage Bond Book 1792 - 1840 No. 673) The home of Jeremiah Mathes was about 4 1/2 miles West of Dandridge.
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