Hello Deborah, Here is the first of those two records from the Overton County Court records. ********** Overton County , Tennessee, County Court Minute Book January 1843 - November 1849 Page 161. Ordered by the Court that John Phillips be appointed Overseer of a Second Class Road from Gores Mill to Intersect the Old Ridge Passage (?) Road. West on the Hill and that John Gore, Mounce Gore and Hands, Jesse Chism, Champion Langford, Charles Langford, Michal Phillips, T. J. Langford, John William Brown, E. McGuffey, William Buck and Henry West work under him as hands. ********** I hope you find this to be useful. Remember, the road mentioned probably ran across the land of Jesse Chism or nearby his land. Thanks for being part of the ROOTWALKER family. Sincerely, Stan Magnesen ROOTWALKER site/list coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In a message dated 5/5/01 8:36:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time, debjorg@juno.com writes: > Subj: [ROOTWALKER] Re: Overton County Court Minutes-Chism > Date: 5/5/01 8:36:49 AM Pacific Daylight Time > From: debjorg@juno.com (Deborah L Jorgensen) > Reply-to: TN-ROOTWALKER-L@rootsweb.com > To: TN-ROOTWALKER-L@rootsweb.com > > Thank you very much! I had no idea I would be able to get something like > that on the List. > Debby J. > > On Sat, 5 May 2001 05:45:25 -0700 TN-ROOTWALKER-D-request@rootsweb.com > writes: >