William McGehee
Hawkins County information
On August 15, 1796, William McGehee was commissioned as one of
the Justices of the Peace in Hawkins County Tennessee.
On October 10, 1796, William
"McGeehee" was commissioned as one of the
"Lieutenants in the regiment of Hawkins County during good
behaviur".
McGeehee, Wm., -Lt.- Oct 10, 1796- Hawkins Co., Regiments Commissioned
Commission Book
of
Governor John Sevier
April 2, 1796-June 16, 1801
For Hawkins County, Tennessee
Transcribed by Mildred Collins Wasser
John Young, Isham Reynolds, George Roberts Junior, Robert
Campbell, Petter Miller, Joseph Webster, William McGehee and
Moses Ball commissioned Justices of the Peace in and for the
County of Hawkins, August 15th 1796.
John Davies, Needham Lee, Willes Stephen Center, John Thompson,
Olliver Dodson, Daniel Cox, William McGeehee and John Smith
commissioned Lieutenants in the regiment of Hawkins County during
good behaviur October 10th 1796.
Other mentions -
History of Hawkins County
Taken from Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886
Joseph McMinn located in the extreme upper end of Hawkins county
about 1787,
and soon took an active interest in the affairs of the county. In
1794 he was
elected with William Cocke, to represent it in the Territorial
Assembly, and
two years later was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
He then
served two terms in the Upper House of the General Assembly. In
1815 he was
elected governor of the State, a position he continued to hold
until 1821.
Soon after he was appointed Indian Agent at Calhoun, now in
Bradley County,
and was filling that position at the time of his death. The above
named men
were the most illustrious of the first settlers of the county.
Among others
who had settled prior to 1783 were Mordecai Haygood, who lived on
the
Holston, about eight miles above Rogersville; Peter Cocke, who
lived in the
same neighborhood, and Rodham Kenner, who located about one mile
above
Spear’s Mill. He was prominently connected with the
affairs of the county,
and was a member of the Legislature one or more terms. Capt.
Thomas Caldwell
lived ten miles above Rogersville on the north side of the river.
John
Saunders lived on the river opposite Kenner’s.
William Cox, Sr., Charles
and
William Payne, Obadiah and Elijah Chissom also lived south of the
Holston,
and the last namedkept a ferry across that stream. Thomas Lee,
Cornelius and
John Carmack and Thomas Gibbons lived in Carter’s
Valley. William
Armstrong
settled at Stony Point. Among others who had located in the
county prior to
1783 may be mentioned John cox, Col. John Smith, William
McGehee, Peter
Harris, James McCarty, Hutson Johnston, John Evans, George
Ridley, James
Blair, Thomas Brooks, Elisha Walling, William W. Brown, capt.
Thomas
Hutchings, James Short, Abraham Rice, William Ingram, William
lauson, Reese
Jones, Capt. Thomas English, James Berry, Benjamin Murrell,
George and
Littleton Brooks, Thomas Henderson, Thomas Caldwell, Robert King
and Martin
Shaner. Among those who came in during the next two or three
years were
Robert Gray, Richard Mitchell, Samuel Wilson, William Bell, John
Horton,
Robert Stephenson and John Gordon.
