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This colorful volume contains a full-text transcription of Fentress County, Tennessee Court records from 1842 through 1844 and includes:
Estate Matters
Jury Lists
Licenses
Civil Court Actions
Promissary Note Defaults
Criminal Matters
Judgments
+ More
Each entry is carefully documented and includes names of all interested parties.
** WPA Workers
During the Great Depression in the early 1900s, many Americans were given a “job” by the United States Government to support their family. One such “job” was transcribing early court, family, Bible, and cemetery records as well as other local records. Original versions were typed on onion skin paper with “x” number of carbon copies. Although the State Archives owns the vast majority of ‘first’ or typed copy, carbons have circulated for years but are now scattered. Often the typing is not the best and is difficult to read but these valuable records still constitute one of the best sources of information for Tennessee Counties. In many cases, these are all that remain of the original as many county records have been lost. WPA records are generally full text transcription: much larger in scope than an abstraction or summary.
Criminal Matters … Zorabables Stephens Yeomand, Mashack Stevens Yeoman, and Thomas Burns Yeoman upon the 7th day of March, 1840, with force and arms .. did then and there unlawfully commit an Affray by then and there publicly fighting with one Jesse York in a public place …
Estate Matters … George Brook departed this life … possessed a track of land of 400 acres … he had the following children heirs … continues with land description + more.
Judgment … you are hereby commanded … to summer John B. McCormack, Jesse Cobb, William R. Campbell, and Edward Choate … appear before the Judge of Circuit Court for Fentress County .. to answer the President and directors of the Bank of Tennessee that they render to them three hundred dollars which to them they owe …
License … Arthur Flowers … sell and vend and retail spirituous liquors by the quart to be drank upon the plantation where sold .. (much more)
Jury Lists … came also a jury of good and lawful men, to wit: Joshua Jefers ((more names)).
* After the surname indicates over 5 DIFFERENT first names are listed under the surname.
** After the surname indicates over 10 DIFFERENT first names are listed under the surname.
ANDERSON ANGELLY ARNOLD ASHBURN ATKINSON
BEACH BEAN BEASON BEATY* BELL BENN BENNETT BLAIR BLEDSOE* BALES BOOKER BOOKOUT BOSWELL BRANLETTE BRANNOM BROCK** BROWN
CAMPBELL CARPENTER CARRECK CECIL CHOAT CHRISMAN CLARK COBB COIL COMBS CONATSER COOPER COX COPELAND CORNCHUS CRABTREE* CRAIG CRAWFORD CROCKETT* CROUCH CULLEM CULVER CUMMINGS
DAVIDSON* DAVIS DECKARD DELK DIBRELL DISHMON DUNCAN DUVALL
EDWARDS ESTELL EVANS
FAIR FERRELL FINDLY FLANIGAN FRANCIS FRANKLIN FROGG* FURRA
GARRETT GATEWOOD GAUNY GENTRY GILL GOODALL GRISHAM GUFFEY GWINN
HAMILTON HARRIS HARRISON HARPER HATFIELD HELM HIGHSAW HILDRETH HILL HINDS HOGUE HOOD HUCKOBY HUDDLESTON* HUFF HUGHES
JACKSON JEFFERS JOHNS JONES
KENDRICK KENNEDY KIDD KING KNIP
LEE LINDER LIVINGSTON LOVE LYNN
MACE MCCLELLAND MCCORMICK MCGEE MCILVAIN MCNAIRY MILLER MILSAPS MINNIS MITCHELL MULLINAX MURRY
NEARNER NELSON NOLAN
OWEN
PARRIS PAUL PAYNE PEAVYHOUSE PETY PHILLIPS PILE POOR PRICE PULSE
REAGAN REED RICH RICHARDSON RILEY ROBBINS ROBERTS ROBERTSON
SAVAGE SCHOOLER SCOTT SHELTON SHORES SIMPSON SINGLETON SMITH* SPURLIN STAPLES STEPHENS* STEWART STOCKTON STORIE SWOPE
TAYLOR THOMPSON TINCH TODD TRABUE
UPCHURCH
VAP
WALDRUF WEST WHITED WHITEHEAD WILLIAMS WILSON WINNINGHAM WIZZARD WOOD WRIGHT* WURTS WUSIGROVE
YORK YOUNG
ZACHORY ZACKORY
