More McBroom tidbits, --------------------- Wed 17 Nov 1802: By order of Court Martin ASHBURN, Philip Combs, Edward WEST, William GUYNN, Michael MASSENGILL, James ALSUP, Jacob ARNETT, Daniel CLAYTON, Esqr., Thomas McBROOM, Miller EASLEY & Michael COONS are appointed a Jury to view and lay off a road, the nearest & best way from the town of Rutledge to Michael MASSENGILL'S Mill and make a report to next court. (Grainger Co, Tennessee Minutes of Court of Pleas, 1802-1812, Vol. 2, WPA Records, 1939, Mountain Press, Signal Mountain TN) ------------------ Nov 1804: (Grainger Co, Tennessee Minutes, p. 87) "The Jury appointed to view & lay out a road agreeably to Law from the town of Rutledge to the Panther Springs make the following report, Viz. . we have viewed said road as far as the top of the ridge Beginning at the Court House down the public square to the Creek, thence across the Creek & with the marked trees down the Clift near the upper end of Thomas McBROOM'S meadow, thence with the marked trees to strike the road near COMB'S ferry, thence through the ferry leving the road to the right at flat rock, thence with the road to the top of the ridge." (Grainger Co, Tennessee Minutes of Court of Pleas, 1802-1812, Vol. 2, WPA Records, 1939, Mountain Press, Signal Mountain TN) ------------------