Joseph Coleman (Tennessee politician)

What a quaint picture it would present to us now, it we could see the log cabin as it then stood in the centre of the square, with hitching posts around, to which were tied the horses of those who were attending court.

[2] According to Col. Williams these were, "He built the first fine house, which still stands behind the undertaking establishment of Grooms & Co. on Cherry street, owned afterwards by Josiah Nichol.

"[10] From 1810 to 1812 he was partners with future U.S. president Andrew Jackson and a third man, Horace Green, in a business that traded in cotton, tobacco, and slaves.

[11] During the fiercely contested 1828 U.S. presidential election a man named John Lucas wrote a letter sharing his knowledge of the Jackson–Coleman–Green partnership:[3] While a boy in Virginia, I was well acquainted with Mr Coleman.

Upon his return I met with him, and, in a conversation respecting his success, be informed me that he had found considerable difficulty in selling his negroes for cash, and had disposed of them on a credit to our old countryman, Mr. Joseph Coleman.

He observed that such was the current rumor of the day in and about Nashville, but that he was in no danger from that source, for he had declined making sale of the property to Mr. Coleman, but on condition that he would give drafts on an eastern city (perhaps Philadelphia) and notes negotiable and payable in one of the banks in Nashville, in the event of a failure in the drafts, and have both of those instruments endorsed by General Jackson as security.

[12] Andrew Erwin countered that he had seen bank records stating that "A. Jackson's proportion of cash for negroes bought of Richard Epperson" was US$929.45 (equivalent to $18,106 in 2023).