David "Davy" Crockett to
William P. Seat
Submitted by: Fred
McCord, Nashville, Tennessee
Washington City,
26 January 1829
Dear Capt.
I have taken the liberty
of directing a number of my addresses to my constituencies to you which I hope
you will do me the favor to give them as wide circulation as possible in your
County and you will confer a particular favor on your friend.
I know no person in your
town better qualified to do me this favor than yourself. We have nothing new
here and is doing but little business in Congress.
I am in as fine health as
you ever saw me and I hope these lines will find you and yours the same.
Respectfully your able servant,
David Crockett
This letter found at the TSLA, Nashville, TN. in the Manuscripts Dept. card
files under William P. Seat.
Correspondence by Author, Crockett, David
M.S. A.C. 77-55 V-K-1 - Box 1 Folder 15
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The following notes from: David Crockett, Tennessee 1786- 1836 by
Margaret Nolen Nichol.
"In 1829, the popularity of David Crockett was at such a peak, that his
opposition looked for a man that they thought could beat him. Captain Joel
Estes, of Haywood County and Colonel Adam Alexander were his opponents. The
heated races received wide publicity over a wide region. The results at the
polls were Crockett, 8525; Alexander, 5000; and Estes, 132." It
seems Capt. Seat got the word out to the constituencies.
William Price Seat was born 27 Feb. 1784 in Sussex Co., Va. and moved to
Davidson County, TN. with his father Hartwell Seat in 1797. He is my 3rd Great
Grand Uncle and brother of my 3rd Great Grandmother Jane Seat Watkins. He
married Rebecca Clinton on Dec. 27, 1808 Davidson Co., TN. and served in Capt.
Bells Militia Company in 1812. After selling his farm in Davidson
Co. to his nephew William Campbell in 1819 he moved to an area of the frontier
that would become Gibson County in Oct. of 1823 and the following January was
named Chairman of the Justices of the First Court commissioned by Governor
Carroll. It was David Crockett as a member of the State House of
Representatives who introduced the bill to form Gibson County.
William Price Seat died 16 August 1853 and is buried in the Seat Cemetery
across the road from the Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery on the Madison/
Gibson County line where my Father is buried.
David Crockett on 9 January 1836 wrote to his daughter back in Tennessee:
"I would rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a
seat in Congress for life."
He died just weeks later at the Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas.