hud 11 charter to ihe TeniH'Ssef State I tied iiitu three 8ft'lii)n8 with Jetbe 

 line. Accordingly the court appoin-!R. Siler, Juseph Weloh and James 

 ted a Jury to lay off and mark the Whitaker as the overseers of the re- 

 way for said road ooramencing at the I spective sections with sptcis! Iiandu 



junction of the Tennessee and Tuck- 

 aseige rivers and to divide it into 

 lots at« near equal ap their liniiled 

 means would enable them lo do. 

 The jury, laid and marked off seven 

 lots, Xo, 1 commencing at thcTucka- 

 seige Ford and No. 7 terminating not 

 far from the Shallow Ford on Ten- 



assigned them. Lot No. 7 had Wm. 

 Bryson as overseer. This lot fell to 

 Capt. Wilson's oompany. This lot 

 terminated some whert' ahoiil the 

 Shallow Ford, the road from Frtuik- 

 lin having been somewhat worke«l 

 oat to that point. The foregoing 

 lots v\ ere worked out by respeotive 



nessee river. There was some sort | companies — the hands forming them- 

 of lottery in assigning this work to j selves mto messes, taking wagons to 

 the respective captains' militia com- , haul their provisions, tools, camp- 

 panies. I suppose there was draw- 

 ing of straws or perhaps numbers on 

 slips of paper. The record reads on 

 the iippointmeni of the respective 

 overseers: "This lot falls to Capt. 

 Love's company" &c. &c. to the end 

 of the chapter. It seems that there 

 were six militia companies at that 

 time in the county. It may be well 

 to mention here the overseers of the 

 respective lots, and the Captain's 

 company assigned to each lot, as the 

 building of this road furnishes an 

 int^-resting and instructive chapter 

 in the history of Macon County. 

 Henry Addington No. I, Capt. Love's 

 company ; Lot No. 2, Robert Johnson, 

 Capt. Johnson's company ; Lot No. 

 3, Benjamin S. Brittain, Capt. Mc- 

 Kee's company; Lot No. 4, Jacob 

 Palmer, Capt. Smith's compatiy, — 

 now Smith's Bridge Township; Lot 

 No. f), Joshua Amraons, Capt, 

 Gtjorge's company. Lot No. 6 being 

 regarded as a very hard lot was divi- 



fixtures ike. The Smith's Bridge 

 company had the lot which lay be- 

 tween the IS and 19 mile-post*». The 

 mess consisting of my brothers anl 

 Kome neighbors took me along is 

 cook and camp-boy. There I saw 

 the men taking rock from the river 

 with the water breast deep t<j aid in 

 building wharves. They remaitied 

 until the work was finished. Thi« 

 work was done without compensation 

 and for the public good. It illus- 

 trates the sort of stuff of which our 

 fathers were made — the spirit of pa- 

 triotism that prompted a noble race 

 of men to sacrifice and work for 

 their country's good. This work 

 done they returned home, feeling 

 that they had rendered a iCfervice 

 ihat was to benefit their e.ounty and 

 their posterity. 



The overseers of the roads gener- 

 ally, of that time, were of the best 

 men in the county. That first 

 Board of Masistratos did not l)elieve 



