To Thomas Jefferson from Nathaniel Macon, 17 November 1803
From Nathaniel Macon
17 Novr. 1803
Sir
Mr. Finley coming in this morning, prevented my informing you, that John Hay & Robert Cochran both live in or very near to Fayetteville, and that Robert Troy lives in the county of Anson, about 40 miles distant from Fayetteville
I am Sir Yr. most obt sert—
Nathl Macon
RC (DNA: RG 59, LAR); endorsed by TJ as received 17 Nov. and “Lyne, Roberts & Hunt. Commrs. bkrptcy” and so recorded in SJL.
finley: William Findley.
For the recommendation of john hay and robert cochran as bankruptcy commissioners to hear a case in Anson County, North Carolina, see Samuel D. Purviance to TJ, 24 Oct.
Macon had received correspondence calling for the appointment of commissioners to hear the case against Joshua Wynne, a merchant from Granville County. James Lyne was one of those recommended to hear this “Business of the Highest Consequence.” Macon wrote three names in the corner of an address sheet: Lyne, William Roberts, and Washington Norwood, to which TJ added a fourth, William Hunt, in pencil. On 18 Nov., TJ named Lyne, Roberts, and Hunt as commissioners for Williamsboro, a post town in Granville County. This was the last set of bankruptcy commissioners appointed by TJ (Joseph M. Myers to Macon, 19 Oct., and Kemp Plummer to Macon, 7 Nov., in DNA: RG 59, LAR, 7:0447-51 [James Lyne]; list of commissions in Lb in DNA: RG 59, MPTPC; Jedidiah Morse, The American Gazetteer, 2d ed. [Charlestown, Mass., 1804], s.v. “Williamsborough”; Vol. 37:711).