Minutes of the County Court of Knox County, Book O 1792-95
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1264)
Transcriptions of the County Archives of Tennessee
Originally published: Nashville, March 1941
Reprinted 1976, Heritage House, Thomson, Illinois
p. 38
MONDAY MAY 6th 1793.
At a Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions began and held for the County of Know, at the Court House in Knoxville on the first Monday in May 1793 present James White, Luke Lea, John Kearns, and John Evans esquires Justices & C & C.
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John Sevier, Junior, John Lowry, and Samuel Mitchell, appeared and produced Licenses from Governor Blount authorizing them to practice as Attorneys in the Several Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions within this Territory who Severally took an Oath to Support the Constitution of the United States & also took the Oath prescribed by Law for Attornies they are therefore admitted.