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Sheriffs of Albemarle, from 1745.
1745, Joseph Thompson; 1747, Edwin
Hinkman; 1749, Chas. Lynch; 1751,
James Daniel; 1753, Samuel Jordan;
1755, John Reid; —Nicholas Lewis;
—David Rodes; —John Henderson;
1781, James Quarles; 1783, Clifton
Rodes; 1785, John Marks; 1787, Geo.
Gilmer; 1789, Michael Thomas; 1791,
James Garland; 1793, James Kerr; 1795,
John Key; 1797, Wm. Hughes; 1799,
Samuel Marrell; 1801, Wm. D. Meriwether;
1803, Wm. Michie; 1805, Bezaled
Brown; 1807, Thomas Garth; 1809,
Tandy Key; 1811, Rice Garland; 1813,
Chas. B. Hunton; 1815, Benjamin
Harris; 1817, Robert Davis 1819, Chas.
Wingfield Jr; 1819, Marshall Durrett;
1821, Chas. Yancy; 1823, Archilles
Douglass; 1825, John Watson; 1828,
Wm. D. Meriwether; 1830, Garrett
White; 1832, John Rodes; 1834, Parmenas
Rogers; 1836, Micajah Woods;
1837, William Woods; 1839, Francis
Carr; 1841, Chas. Brown; 1843, James
Michie; 1845, Benj. Ficklin; 1847, Richard
Duke; 1849, Thomas H. Brown;
1851, Chas. Cocke. From that time up
to the present roughly the Sheriffs, or
those who acted for them, have been
William Goodman, Drury W. Burnley,
L. S. Macon, J. C. Childress, James S.
Barksdale, Jos. Ballard, B. T. Madison,
Luther Dunn, J. H. Barksdall,
W. Rice Burnley, Capt. S. M. Teel and
Lucian C. Watts, for the past twenty
years.
The divine right of kings may have
been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the
divine right of government is the keystone
of human progress.
Man becomes greater in proportion
as he learns to know himself and his
faculty. Let him once bcome conscious
of what he is and he will soon
also learn to be what he should be.—
Schelling.
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