I'Airr II 



AftPr the land sale in Sf-ptenjber, 

 IJ^'20, at which a large part of the 

 fiurveyed land was disposed of to 

 the highest bidders, the Tennpssci- 

 Valley was settled quite rapidly, but 

 it was not until the spring of 1829 

 that a county g«^vorn)ncnt was or- 

 ganized. During this interim all the 

 If'gal bosinoss of the entire territory 

 west from the Turkaseige river to 

 the Tusquittee and Valley River 

 chain of inonn tains was transacted 

 by the county anthorities of Hay- 

 wood county and in the Superior 

 court for said county. I remember 

 distinctly the case of a man living 

 within the territory of the present 

 Smith's Bridge townshi;* who was 

 iried and convicted in the Superior 

 court for Haywood county for hog 

 stealing, and for tin's crime received 

 Iv.enty-ninc lashes at the public 

 whipping-post in the town of Waynes- 

 ville. This is the only case of the 

 kind that ever happened in the terri- 

 tory of Macon county. During this 

 interim the late Col. Joab L. Moore, 

 who resided ne r Franklin, held for 

 four years the position of Deputy 

 SherifY under Col. James McKee, 

 who was at that time Sheriff of Hay- 

 wood county. Col. Moore did all 

 the business pertaining to that oHice 

 in the new territory, and was regard- 

 ed as a very efficient and faithful 

 ofHcer. This transition covering the 

 formative period of our first popula- 



tion finally crysiulized into tJ 

 ments f(>r self county govpniiiii"i 

 Hence, at the session of the Cencr* 

 Assembly for 1828-29 an act wa 

 pa.ssed fn create a :icw county an^ 

 • he name of Macon was givi'u it i 

 honor of N;iflianiel Macon, wiio wa 

 a pure statesman and a p» rl<<-t ^d-.-c- 

 men of an old time Anieri< 

 triot and gentleman. The I«w 1 1'.; 

 ting the county ajipoinled thirty-thre 

 leading citizens to be (pnililied anu 

 to serve a-s the first Hoanl of Magi 

 trates. I here quote th»' niinut*-- 

 showing the organizati 

 county : 

 '■'■^Il.nales of a Court for Maco 



County, Held for Said County o . 



the ith Monday in March, 182'. 



Agreeable to an Act of the Genen 



Assembly Made and Provided fc 



Said County. 



Present and organizing said coui. 

 ty, from the county of Haywood 

 Wm. Deaver, Esqr., who afipoinie 

 Joshua Roberts to administer tV 

 oath to the following Justices of \\ ■ 

 Peace for said county, to-wit : Aaro 

 Pinson, Saul Smith, Jesse R. Sile 

 John Howard, Jaeob Siler, Joh. 

 Moore, John Cook, Enoa Shield 

 Jonathan Phillips, Bynum W. BhI . 

 Benjamin S. Brittain, Josei>h Welcl 

 Michael Wikle, Thomas Rogers, Wn 

 F, McKee, Andrew Cathey, Ceorg 

 Dickey, Edward L. Poindexter, Ira 

 S. Hightower, James Buchanan, Wn.. 



