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<p corresp='TTP35083254P1' xml:id='OTP35083254P1'>Your petitioners would Respectfully recomend. John T. Wilson as a Suitable person -- to fill the unexpired term. accosioned by the death of Charles A Burgess -- as Justice of the peace, of the Mays lick district N<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>o</hi></hi> 7,
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<p corresp='TTP35083254P2' xml:id='OTP35083254P2'>Being acquainted with Wilsons' qualifications -- Yourself few petititoners are only necessary
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John Smalls<lb/>
Tho<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>s</hi></hi> W. Wheatly<lb/>
J, M, Piper<lb/>
J W Williams<lb/>
Willis Berry<lb/>
Geo Myall<lb/>
Micheal M. Walton<lb/>
John Fields<lb/>
R. H <unclear>Lassuns</unclear><lb/>
Jonas Myall<lb/>
Edw<hi rend='sup'>d</hi> Myall<lb/>
A S Wilson<lb/>
W T Payen<lb/>
A F Wililson<lb/>
Stephen H Carnegy<lb/>
<cb n='2'/>D, D, Allen<lb/>
A W Peed<lb/>
H. C. Liter<lb/>
W<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>m</hi></hi> F Chanslor<lb/>
J V Mitchell<lb/>
Jo<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>s</hi></hi> W. Howe<lb/>
R. B. Yancey<lb/>
B. C Warden<lb/>
Jno H Worthington<lb/>
John T. Linmate<lb/>
T A Palmer<lb/>
Ben D Parry<lb/>
P. O. Palmer.<lb/>
P Laytham<lb/>
Joseph S Coale<lb/>
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          <p corresp='TTP35083255P0' xml:id='OTP35083255P0'>C G. Worthington<lb/>
E. H. Herndon<lb/>
Joseph <unclear>Trotman</unclear><lb/>
Thos P Hopper<lb/>
J P Ben Laytham<lb/>
Cornelius Waller<lb/>
W. H Arthur<lb/>
G W Wells<lb/>
R J Gaither<lb/>
J A Jackson<lb/>
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<p corresp='TTP35083255P3' xml:id='OTP35083255P3'>H. S. Johnson
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<p corresp='TTP35083255P4' xml:id='OTP35083255P4'>Judg Savage.<lb/>
To This Excelency Gov Bramblett
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