HISTORY.Establishment-of-Metcalfe.Co.1860


An Act To Establish Metcalfe Co. May 1 1860 
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"That on and after the first Monday in May, 1860, all the parts of Barren, Green, Adair, Cumberland and Monroe counties, lying within and included in same is hereby stricken from said counties and erected into one district or county, to be called designated and known as the county of Metcalfe, to wit:

Beginning one mile west from the Dripping Spring meeting house in Barren County; then a straight line to Lazarus' store; provided said line will exclude the residences of William Winlock and W. J. Wood. If said line will not exclude said residences, making an angle of said line, so as to exclude them, and then to Lazarus store, as before named; thence on the same course to the Hart county line; thence with the Hart county line to the Green County line; then with the Green County line to the junctions of the south and east forks of Little Barren River; then a straight line to where the Cloverdale and Greensburg road crosses Caney Fork Creeek; thence a straight line to intersect the Geen and Adair County line near the Pleasant Ridge meeting house; thence a straight line to Hiram Pendleton's, (Leaving him in Adair county); thence up the Easst Fork Creek, with its meanders, so as to include the residences of:

Jas Estes, Thos, Estes, William Penick, J. L. Yates, Jane Estes, A. York, deceased, J. H. Hamilton, P. T. Ellison, Sebastian Bell, Z. D. Wheat's old farm, Herbert Kinnaird, Harrison Kinnaird, J. B. Dixon, Eliza Kinnaird, William Hamilton, Sr., Edward Hamilton and S. W. Marrs; and thence with the meanders of said creek to the headwaters; thence a straight line to the nearest point to intersect the Cumberland County line, thence with the Cumberland line to the headwaters of Marrow-Bone Creek, above Arch Ferguson's, who resides about a half mile above Matthew Amy's (leaving said Morrison in the county of Cumberland); thence a straight line to the nearest point in the Monroe County line; thence with the Monroe County line one mile from the Barren County line; thence a straight line to intersect the Monroe and Barren County line, at a point where a straight line to the beginning will include the residence of P. W. Grinstead, Esq., thence to the beginning."

"It is also decreed in the Act that the county is to be laid off into five districts, as voting precincts. James F. Keel, George A. Clark, Marion N. Carr, P. J. Snider, and William D. Courts are appointed commissioners, who, or a majority of whom, after taking an oath faithfully and impartially to discharge their duties, shall lay off said districts and designate the place of voting in each. Said commissioners shall meet at the house of J. B. Stockton, in the town of Edmunton on the first Monday in March next.

"That J. M. S. McCorkle, of Green county, T. T. Alexander of Adair county, and William E. Monford, of Barren county, are hereby appointed commissioners to locate the seat of justice in said county of Metcalfe, whose duty it shall be to locate said county seat at the most convenient and eligible point at or near the center of said county; and shall meet for that purpose on the first Monday in April next.

"That Samuel Jordan, P. W. Grinstead and John W. Johnson be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, with two chain carriers each, employed to run and mark the boundary line of said county of Metcalfe, agreeably to the first section of this Act."




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