- Tennessee Records: Bible Records And Marriage Bonds
by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen
In this veritable encyclopedia of Tennessee genealogy, you'll find birth,
marriage, and death information for almost 15,000 individuals from Dickson,
Knox, Lebanon, and Wilson counties.
- Tennessee Records: Tombstone Inscriptions And Manuscripts
by Jeannette Tillotson Acklen
A companion volume to Tennessee Records: Bible Records And Marriage
Bonds, this is an exhaustive cemetery-by-cemetery listing of Tennessee
mortuary inscriptions. It also includes more than 100 pages devoted
to biographical and historical sketches and includes a comprehensive
index of 12,500 entries.
- Tennessee Soldiers In The Revolution: A Roster of Soldiers Living
During the Revolutionary War in the Counties of Washington and Sullivan
by Penelope Johnson Allen
Much of the book is a list of Revolutionary soldiers taken from the
Revolutionary Army Accounts of North Carolina in the State Archives
at Raleigh, showing claims against North Carolina for service by men
of the western-most counties of Washington and Sullivan, later Tennessee.
However, there are also sections solely devoted to wills of Washington
County, sections on marriages of Blount and Davidson counties, and a
final section on Revolutionary grants in Davidson County.
- Some Tennessee Heroes Of The Revolution
by Zella Armstrong
Here, the author identifies hundreds of Tennessee veterans of the Revolutionary
War and lists their name, age, service, residence, date of pension application,
date and place of birth, service record, names of family members, place(s)
of migration to, from, or within Tennessee.
- Twenty-Four Hundred Tennessee Pensioners, Revolution And War
Of 1812
by Zella Armstrong
An alphabetical list of 2,400 Tennessee pensioners, this list was compiled
from published government Pension Lists of 1816, 1818, 1828, 1832, and
the U.S. Census of 1840. Here, you'll find name, age, service, residence,
and source of the data. Widows who drew on their husbands' claims are
also listed.
- Index To The 1820 Census Of Tennessee
by Elizabeth Petty Bentley
The fourth federal census, taken in 1820, is the earliest census for
the Tennessee for which enumerations of most counties survive (although
several eastern Tennessee counties are missing). Here, you'll find an
alphabetical index to 35,000 heads of households, with reference to
the individual's county of residence and the page number of the census
schedule where you'll find information on that person's household and
its occupants.
- 1770-1790 Census Of The Cumberland Settlements: Davidson, Sumner,
And Tennessee Counties
by Richard C. Fulcher
Official enumerations taken by the federal government didn't include
the Cumberland Settlements. Here, you'll find a reconstruction of the
census of the three Cumberland River counties now in Tennessee. Record
of inhabitants of these settlements have been especially difficult to
locate since the counties were originally a part of North Carolina.
As new counties were formed and subdivided, the early settlers were
often caught in changing jurisdictions. Often, you'd have to search
in several jurisdictions for ancestral records (even though the ancestor
may never have moved). The author abstracted from public records all
references to individuals living in the jurisdiction between 1770 and
1790. From wills, deeds, court minutes, marriage records, military records,
and many related items, he has put together a carefully documented list
of inhabitants. This work is virtually the "first" census of Tennessee.
- Record Of Commissions Of Officers In The Tennessee Militia,
1796-1815
by Mrs. John Trotwood Moore
The records extracted for this book were originally listed in a series
of manuscript books, beginning with the creation of the State in 1796
and extended for many years thereafter. You will learn the following
information about an individual listed here: name, county associated
with the individual, rank of commission, and date of commission. The
contents of this book were originally published in the Tennessee
Historical Quarterly.
- Pioneers Of Davidson County, Tennessee
by Edythe R. Whitley
Here, you'll find lists of more than 5000 early Davidson County pioneers,
taxpayers, militiamen, Revolutionary and War of 1812 soldiers and pensioners,
and grantees of land in Tennessee. This book includes: Settlers on the
Cumberland River, 1780; North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee, 1784;
Davidson County Taxpayers, 1787; Davidson County Militia, 1812; Officers
in the Tennessee Militia, 1811; Pension List for West Tennessee, 1818;
and Davidson County Pension Lists for 1832, 1840, and 1883. The militia
list of 1812, consisting of 2,235 free male inhabitants, is generally
considered the only practical alternative to the lost 1810 census of
Davidson County, and one might say that the entire work compensates
for the absence of a census for the first thirty-five years of the county's
existence.
- Overton County, Tennessee: Genealogical Records
by Edythe Rucker Whitley
Here, you'll find record of approximately 2,500 early Overton County
inhabitants within a great variety of records. This book includes: abstracts
of deeds, wills, and grants; minutes from Overton County Deed Books;
Legislative Petitions, 1801-1860; Officers in the Tennessee Militia,
1807-1811; Pensioners in Overton and Adjoining Counties, 1818-1883;
Index to Overton County Will Books, 1870-1891.
- Red River Settlers: Records Of The Settlers Of Northern Montgomery,
Robertson, And Sumner Counties, Tennessee
by Edythe Rucker Whitley
This book covers the northern half of Montgomery, Robertson, and Sumner
counties, Tennessee. These counties were incorporated into the Mero
District of North Carolina in 1796. It consists of a collection of county,
state, church, and family records, and also contains genealogies of
Red River families developed from a wide variety of sources, including
cemetery records, Bible records, military records and private papers,
as well as from records of deeds, wills and marriages. This work is
especially valuable because a substantial portion of the book was taken
from private family records which were subsequently lost or destroyed.
Among the resources collected in this book, you'll find genealogies
of 95 families with details of births, marriages, and deaths in successive
generations. Besides the genealogies this work contains valuable lists
of militia officers, pensioners and overseers of roads, as well as a
lengthy chapter featuring numerous sketches of early Methodist pioneers
and pioneer families of Middle Tennessee.
- Sumner County, Tennessee Abstracts Of Will Books 1 And 2 (1788-1842)
by Edythe Rucker Whitley
When it was founded in 1786, Sumner County was still a part of North
Carolina. Most of its early settlers came from the Watauga region, although
many came directly from Virginia. Sumner County was a crossroads in
the flow of westward migration, and many families passed through leaving
behind a wealth of genealogical records. Some had come only recently
from the battles of the Revolution; some even from King's Mountain.
This book consists of abstracts of Will Books 1 and 2 in the county
courthouse in Gallatin, covering the years 1788-1842. Referencing some
3000 people, each abstract generally lists the name of the testator,
date of instrument, names of heirs (usually wives and children), nature
of the bequest, names of witnesses and executors, date of probate, and
page number on which you'll find record in the original will book.
- Tennessee Genealogical Records: Records Of Early Settlers From
State And County Archives
by Edythe Rucker Whitley
From records in the State Archives in Nashville, and from more than
twenty county courthouses, the record abstracts collected in this volume
reference in excess of 18,000 early Tennessee settlers. Among the records,
you'll find revolutionary warrants, grants and certificates of survey,
will abstracts, tombstone inscriptions, deed abstracts, marriages (including
the valuable Sumner County marriages, 1791-1813), court orders and petitions,
and genealogical notes on some two dozen families. Many of these came
from the counties of Bedford, Bledsoe, Carter, Davidson, Dyer, Franklin,
Hawkins, Henry, Jackson, Jefferson, Maury, Montgomery, Overton, Smith,
Stewart, Sullivan, Sumner, Washington, White, Williamson, and Wilson.
- Henry County, Tennessee Old Time Stuff
by Edythe Whitley
Henry County was formed from the Western District of Tennessee in November
1821. The county is bounded by the State of Kentucky on the north, Stewart
and Benton counties on the east, Carroll County on the south, and Weakley
County on the west. Here, you'll find a collection of abstracts or indexes
to a number of the oldest surviving genealogical source records pertaining
to Henry County. Following an informative historical introduction, you'll
find Henry County pension lists for 1840 and 1863, will abstracts and
indexes to will books (1856-1863 and 1879-1902), estate abstracts, guardianship
records, court orders, deed abstracts, legislative petitions, early
Henry County marriages, and brief sketches of prominent citizens who
resided in the civil districts of Henry County.
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