Justices Petition to Building of Prison and Stocks
To the Honorable the General Assembly of North Carolina now sitting
The petition of the Justices of the County Court of Sullivan Humbly Showeth:
That whereas the establishing and laying of a proper and suitable place for the Court house prison & stocks for the County of Sullivan aforesaid have not a yet been established and confirmed by any act of assembly for that purpose made and also that public justice may more fully be administered and distributed to individuals and the public at large, We therefore humbly pray that the said Court House prison and Stocks, may be Established to be built and Erected on the Lands of John Yancey, whereon and at which place, the said Court heretofore have been constantly held and as the Situation and Conveniency of the said place, renders it much more easy and Convenient than any other in said County. We Humbly pray and Trust that you will establish an order to be erected the Court House prison and stocks on the land afore mentioned. And we your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray Ye.
John Anderson
Gilbert Christian
W. Wallace
Samuel Smith
A. Bledsoe
John Hall
