Tennessee: Bibliography and Sources

Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee: A Study in Frontier Democracy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932.

Allen, Ronald R., comp. Tennessee Books: A Preliminary Guide. Knoxville: n.p., 1969.

Allen, Ronald R., comp. Tennessee Imprints, 1791–1875. Knoxville: n.p., 1987.

Armstrong, Zella. History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee. 2 vols. Chattanooga: Lookout Publishing Co., 1931–1940.

Beach, Ursula Smith. Along the Warioto, or a History of Montgomery County, Tennessee. Clarksville, Tenn.: Kiwanis Club of Clarksville and Tennessee Historical Commission, 1964.

Beach, Ursula S. Montgomery County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1988.

Bejach, L[ois] D. "History of Bell County." West Tennessee Historical Society, Papers 1 (1947): 24–37.

Binkley, Lois Barnes. Deserted Sycamore Village of Cheatham County. Pleasant View, Tenn.: Lois Barnes Binkley, 1980.

Black, Roy W., Sr. "Genesis of County Organization in the Western District of North Carolina and in the State of Tennessee." West Tennessee Historical Society, Papers 2 (1948): 95–118.

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Boniol, John Dawson, Jr. "Walton Road." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 30 (1971): 402–412.

Bridgewater, Betty Anderson, comp. "Acts of the General Assembly Relative to the Formation and Subsequent Changes in Coffee County, 1836–1971." Coffee County Historical Society Quarterly 8, nos. 1–2 (1977): 1–15.

Brown, Sterling Spurlock. History of Woodbury and Cannon County, Tennessee. Manchester, Tenn.: Doak Printing Co., 1936.

Burgner, Goldene Fillers, comp. Greene County, Tennessee, Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1783–1795. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1982.

Burgner, Goldene Fillers, comp. Greene County, Tennessee, Wills, 1783–1890. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981.

Burgner, Goldene Fillers, comp. North Carolina Land Grants, Recorded in Greene County, Tennessee. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981.

Burns, Frank. Davidson County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1989.

Burns, Inez. History of Blount County, Tennessee: From War Trail to Landing Strip, 1795–1955. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1957.

Burns, Inez. "Settlement and Early History of the Coves of Blount County, Tennessee." East Tennessee Historical Society, Publications 24 (1952): 44–67.

Byrum, C. Stephen. McMinn County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1984.

Camp, Henry R. Sequatchie County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1984.

Campbell, T. J. Records of Rhea: A Condensed County History. Dayton, Tenn.: Rhea Publishing Co., 1940.

Cappon, Lester J., Barbara Bartz Petchenik, and John Hamilton Long, eds. Atlas of Early American History: The Revolutionary Era, 1760–1790. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. Section on boundaries is thoroughly documented.

Carter County History Book Committee. Carter County, Tennessee, and Its People, 1796–1993. Elizabethton, Tenn.: Carter County History Book Committee, 1993.

Carter, W. M. Map of Marshall County, Tennessee. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1899.

Cisco, Jay Guy. Historic Sumner County, Tennessee, with Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Cage, and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families. 1909. Reprint, Nashville: Charles Elder, 1971.

Clayton, W. Woodford. History of Davidson County, Tennessee, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia, 1880.

Corlew, Robert Ewing. History of Dickson County, Tennessee. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission and Dickson County Historical Society, 1956.

Coulter, E. Merton. "Georgia-Tennessee Boundary Line." Georgia Historical Quarterly 35 (1951): 269–306.

Creekmore, Pollyanna, ed. Grainger County, Tennessee, Federal Census of 1810, Population Schedule (Third Census) and County Tax Lists for 1810. McClurg Historical Collection Special Studies No. 1. Knoxville" Lawson McGhee Library, 1956.

Davis, George B., and others. Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 1891–1895. Reprinted as Official Military Atlas of the Civil War. New York: Fairfax Press, 1983. Coverage limited to areas of military activity during the Civil War, but affords accurate detail of landmarks and other geographic features before and after the war.

DeLozier, Mary Jean. Putnam County, Tennessee, 1850–1970. Cookeville, Tenn.: Putnam County, 1979.

DenBoer, Gordon. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: North Carolina. Edited by John H. Long. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

De Vorsey, Louis, Jr. "Virginia-Cherokee Boundary of 1771: An Example of the Importance of Maps in the Interpretation of History." East Tennessee Historical Society, Publications 33 (1961): 17–31.

Donnelly, Polly W., ed. James County: A Lost County of Tennessee. Ooltewah, Tenn.: Old James County Chapter, East Tennessee Historical Society, 1983.

Dubester, Henry J. State Censuses: An Annotated Bibliography of Censuses of Population Taken after the Year 1790 by States and Territories of the United States. 1948. Reprint, New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. The standard guide for its subject.

Durham, Walter T. Before Tennessee: The Southwest Territory, 1790–1796; A Narrative History of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio. Piney Flats, Tenn.: Rocky Mount Historical Association, 1990.

Durham, Walter T. Great Leap Westward: A History of Sumner County, Tennessee, from Its Beginnings to 1805. Gallatin, Tenn.: Sumner County Library Board, 1969.

Durham, Walter T. James Winchester, Tennessee Pioneer. Gallatin, Tenn.: Sumner County Library Board, 1979.

Dykeman, Wilma. French Broad. Rivers of America Series. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1955.

Edwards, Shelby I., comp. Sullivan County, Tennessee, Deed Book 1–2, 1775–1795. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1985.

Eldridge, Robert L., and Mary Eldridge. Bicentennial Echoes of the History of Overton County, Tennessee, 1776–1976. Livingston, Tenn.: Enterprise Printing Co., 1976.

Fentress County Historical Society. History of Fentress County, Tennessee. Dallas, Tex.: Curtis Media Corp., 1987.

Filby, P. William, comp. American and British Genealogy and Heraldry: A Selected List of Books. 3d ed. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983.

Filby, P. William, comp. American and British Genealogy and Heraldry: 1982–1985 Supplement. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1987.

Filby, P. William, comp. Bibliography of American County Histories. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.

Filson, John. This Map of Kentucke, Drawn from Actual Observations, Is Inscribed with the Most Perfect Respect to the Honorable the Congress of the United States of America; and to His Excellency, George Washington, Late Commander in Chief of Their Army. Philadelphia, 1784.

Folmsbee, Stanley J. Sectionalism and Internal Improvements in Tennessee: 1796–1845. Special Studies in Tennessee History, no. 1. Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1939.

Folmsbee, Stanley J., Robert E. Corlew, and Enoch L. Mitchell. Tennessee: A Short History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1969.

Foster, Austin P. Counties of Tennessee. [Nashville]: Department of Education, Division of History, State of Tennessee, 1923.

Foster, Wilber F. Map of Davidson County, Tennessee, from Actual Surveys Made by Order of the County Court of Davidson County. New York: G. W. and C. B. Colton, 1871.

Fullerton, Ralph O. Place Names of Tennessee. State of Tennessee, Department of Conservation, Division of Geology, Bulletin 73. Nashville: State of Tennessee, 1974.

Garrett, Jill Knight, comp. Maury County, Tennessee, Historical Sketches. Columbia, Tenn.: Jill K. Garrett, 1967.

[A] Goodspeed Publishing Company. Goodspeed's History of Hamilton, Knox, and Shelby Counties of Tennessee; Reprinted from Goodspeed's History of 1887. Nashville: Charles and Randy Elder, Booksellers, 1974. Reprint of county histories and biographical sections from three 1887 volumes of History of Tennessee.

[B] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Carroll, Henry, and Benton Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. 1887. Reprint, Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1978. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title.

[C] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Gibson, Obion, Dyer, Weakley, and Lake Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminiscences, Observations, Etc., Etc. 1887. Reprint, Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1978. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title.

[D] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin, and Moore Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminiscences, Observations, Etc., Etc. 1886. Reprinted as The Goodspeed Histories of Giles, Lincoln, Franklin, and Moore Counties of Tennessee. Columbia, Tenn.: Woodward and Stinson, 1972. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title. Cited as Goodspeed [D].

[E] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Henderson, Chester, McNairy, Decatur, and Hardin Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. 1886. Reprint, Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1978. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title. Cited as Goodspeed [E].

[F] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. 1887. Reprint, Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1978. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title.

[G] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminiscences, Observations, Etc., Etc. 1886. Reprinted as The Goodspeed Histories of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties, Tennessee. Columbia, Tenn.: Woodward and Stinson, 1975. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title.

[H] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Maury, Williamson, Rutherford, Wilson, Bedford, and Marshall Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminiscences, Observations, Etc., Etc. Nashville: 1886.

[I] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Montgomery, Robertson, Humphreys, Stewart, Dickson, Cheatham, and Houston Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Reminiscences, Observations, Etc., Etc. Nashville: 1886

[J] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Sumner, Smith, Macon, and Trousdale Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. 1887. Reprinted as The Goodspeed Histories of Sumner, Smith, Macon, Trousdale Counties of Tennessee. Columbia, Tenn.: Woodward and Stinson, 1972. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title. Cited as Goodspeed [J].

[K] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of Twenty-five to Thirty Counties of East Tennessee, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. Chicago and Nashville: 1887. Cited as Goodspeed [K].

[L] Goodspeed Publishing Company. History of Tennessee: From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with an Historical and Biographical Sketch of White, Warren, Coffee, DeKalb, and Cannon Counties, Besides a Valuable Fund of Notes, Original Observations, Reminiscences, Etc., Etc. 1887. Reprinted as The Goodspeed Histories of Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Warren, and White Counties. McMinnville, Tenn.: Ben Lomond Press, 1972. Reprint consists only of historical and biographical sketches for counties listed in title.

Graves, Kathleen George. Our Union County Heritage: A Historical and Biographical Album of Union County—People, Places, and Events. 2 vols. [Maynardville, Tenn.]: Graves, 1978–1981.

Greene County History Book Committee. Historic Greene County, Tennessee, and Its People: 1783–1992. Waynesville, N.C.: Don Mills, Inc., 1992.

Hale, Will T. Early History of Warren County. McMinnville, Tenn.: Standard Printing Co., 1930. Reprinted from The Southern Standard (4 October 1902).

Hale, Will T. History of DeKalb County, Tennessee. 1915. Reprint, McMinnville, Tenn.: Ben Lomond Press, 1969.

Haywood, John. Civil and Political History of the State of Tennessee from its Earliest Settlement Up to the Year 1796, Including the Boundaries of the State. 1823. Reprint, Nashville, 1891.

Henderson, Archibald. “Treaty of Long Island of Holston, July, 1777.” North Carolina Historical Review 8 (1931): 55–116.

Historic Hamblen, 1870–1970. Morristown, Tenn.: Hamblen County Centennial Celebration, 1970.

Historical Records Survey, Tennessee. Anderson County (Clinton). Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee, no. 1. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941.

Historical Records Survey, Tennessee. Blount County (Maryville). Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee, no. 5. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941.

Historical Records Survey, Tennessee. Cheatham County (Ashland City). Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee, no. 11. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941. Cited as HRS Tenn., Cheatham.

Historical Records Survey, Tennessee. Crockett County (Alamo). Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee, no. 17. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1940. Cited as HRS Tenn., Crockett.

Historical Records Survey, Tennessee. Haywood County (Brownsville). Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee, no. 38. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1939.

Historical Records Survey, Tennessee. Loudon County (Loudon). Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee, no. 53. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1941.

Historical Records Survey, Tennessee. Sullivan County (Blountville). Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee, no. 82. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Records Survey, 1942.

Hogue, Albert R. History of Fentress County, Tennessee: the Old Home of Mark Twain's Ancestors. Nashville: Williams Printing Co., 1916.

Holt, Edgar A. Claiborne County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1981.

Hoskins, Katherine B. Anderson County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1979.

Houston, Martha L., comp. Tennessee Census Reports No. 1, Rutherford County, 1810. Done for Martha Lou Houston by The National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C., 1933.

Houston, Sandra Kelton, comp. Greene County, Tennessee, Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1797–1807. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1981.

Huddleston, Tim, comp. History of Pickett County, Tennessee. Ooltewah, Tenn.: Tim Huddleston, 1973.

Humphreys, Cecil C. "Formation of Reelfoot Lake and Consequent Land and Social Problems." West Tennessee Historical Society, Papers 14 (1960): 32–73.

Hunter, Dorothy. "Five Historic Houses of Franklin County." Franklin County Historical Review 5, no. 1 (December 1973): 17–26.

Jernigan, V.H. "Fort Nash—Outpost of the 1790's." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 29 (Summer 1970): 130–138.

Jones, Thomas B. "Public Lands of Tennessee." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 27 (1968): 13–36.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early East Tennessee County Boundaries: Alterations in the Grainger/Hawkins Line (1797)." Tennessee Ancestors 13 (1997): 129–131.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early East Tennessee County Boundaries: Carter County and Grainger County." Tennessee Ancestors 12 (1996): 139–144.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early East Tennessee County Boundaries: Cocke County." Tennessee Ancestors 12 (1996): 238–242.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early East Tennessee County Boundaries: The First Treaty of Tellico (1798) and Resulting Alterations in the Blount, Knox, and Grainger Boundaries; Cocke/Greene Alteration (1799)." Tennessee Ancestors 13 (1997): 210–216.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early East Tennessee County Boundaries: Greene, Jefferson, and Cocke County Re-visited." Tennessee Ancestors 13 (1997): 38–39.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early Tennessee County Boundaries: Greene County and Davidson County." Tennessee Ancestors 10 (1994): 196–207.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early Tennessee County Boundaries: Hawkins County and Sumner County." Tennessee Ancestors 11 (1995): 4–11.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early Tennessee County Boundaries: Sevier County and Blount County." Tennessee Ancestors 11 (1995): 206–210.

Jordan, Rene. "The Evolution of Early Tennessee County Boundaries: Sullivan County." Tennessee Ancestors 10 (1994): 94–107.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early Tennessee County Boundaries: Tennessee County, Knox County, and Jefferson County." Tennessee Ancestors 11 (1995): 83–90.

Jordan, Rene. "Evolution of Early Tennessee County Boundaries: Washington County." Tennessee Ancestors 10 (1994): 4–10.

Kane, Joseph Nathan. American Counties: Origins of Names, Dates of Creation and Organization, Area, Population, Historical Data, and Published Sources. 3d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972.

Killebrew, Joseph B. “Coffee County.” Coffee County Historical Society Quarterly 5, no. 3 (1974): 1–6.

Krechniak, Helen Bullard, and Joseph Marshall Krechniak. Cumberland County's First Hundred Years. Crossville, Tenn.: Centennial Committee, 1956.

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Laska, Lewis L. Tennessee State Constitution: A Reference Guide. Reference Guides to the State Constitutions of the United States, No. 2. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Lee-Davis U.D.C. Historical Society. Families and History of Gibson County, Tennessee, to 1989. Milan, Tenn.: Lee-Davis U.D.C. Historical Society, 1989.

Lillard, Roy G. Bradley County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1980.

Lillard, Roy G., ed. History of Bradley County. Cleveland, Tenn.: Bradley County Chapter, East Tennessee Historical Society, 1976.

Lillard, Stewart. Meigs County, Tennessee: A Documented Account of Its European Settlement and Growth. 2d ed. Cleveland, Tenn.: Book Shelf, 1982.

Livingood, James W. History of Hamilton County, Tennessee. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1981.

Luttrell, Laura E., and Pollyanna Creekmore, comps. "Writings on Tennessee Counties." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 2 (1943): 257–279, 336–362, and 3 (1944): 81–83. Reprinted in one volume, Nashville: Tennessee Historical Commission, 1944.

McBride, Robert M. "Lost Counties of Tennessee." East Tennessee Historical Society, Publications 38 (1966): 3–15.

McCallum, James. Brief Sketch of the Settlement and Early History of Giles County, Tennessee, 1876. Pulaski, Tenn.: The Pulaski Citizen, 1928.

McClain, Iris Hopkins. History of Houston County. Columbia Tenn.: Iris Hopkins McClain, 1966.

McClain, Walter S. History of Putnam County, Tennessee. Cookeville, Tenn.: Quimby Dyer and Co., 1925.

MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List of Session Laws. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1936. Complemented by Pollack (below), this guide lists all state session laws through 1935.

MacDonald, Grace E., comp. Check-List of Statutes of States of the United States of America, Including Revisions, Compilations, Digests, Codes and Indexes. Providence, R.I.: Oxford Press, 1937. The most complete guide to state codes through 1937.

McGill, J.T., and W.W. Craig. “Ownership of Reelfoot Lake.” Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 8 (1933): 13–21.

MacKellar, William H. Chuwalee: Chronicles of Franklin County, Tennessee. Winchester, Tenn.: Franklin County Historical Society, 1973.

McMahan, Basil B. Coffee County, Tennessee, Then and Now, 1983. N.p.: Basil B. McMahan, 1983.

Maggart, Sue W., and Nina R. Sutton, eds. History of Smith County, Tennessee. Sponsored by Smith County Homecoming ’86, Heritage Committee. Dallas, Tex.: Curtis Media Corp., 1987.

Map of Bedford County, Tennessee, from New and Actual Surveys. Philadelphia: D. G. Beers, 1878.

Map of Gibson County, Tennessee, from Actual Surveys and Official Records. Philadelphia: D. G. Beers, 1877.

Map of Knox County, Tennessee. N.p.: Vance, Coffee, and Pill, 1895.

Map of Madison County, Tennessee, from Actual Surveys and Official Records. Philadelphia: D. G. Beers, 1877.

Map of Maury County, Tennessee, from New and Actual Surveys. Philadelphia: D. G. Beers, 1878.

Map of Montgomery County, Tennessee, from Actual Surveys and Official Records. Philadelphia: D. G. Beers, 1877.

Map of Rutherford County, Tennessee, from New and Actual Surveys. Philadelphia: D. G. Beers, 1878.

Map of Sumner County, Tennessee, from New and Actual Surveys. Philadelphia: D. G. Beers, 1878.

Martinez, Corinne. Coffee County, from Arrowheads to Rockets: A History of Coffee County. Tullahoma, Tenn.: Coffee County Conservation Board, 1969.

Mason, Robert L. Cannon County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1982.

Mason, Robert L. History of Cannon County, Tennessee. [Woodbury, Tenn.]: Cannon County Historical Society, 1984.

Merritt, Dixon, ed. History of Wilson County: Its Land and Its Life. Lebanon, Tenn.: County Court of Wilson County, 1961.

Merritt, Frank. Early History of Carter County, 1760–1861. Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1975.

Messick, Eugenia Lauderdale, comp. Wills of Hawkins County, Tennessee, 1786–1864. Vol. 1. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1992.

Mitchell, Samuel Augustus. Map of the States of Kentucky and Tennessee. Philadelphia, 1836.

Montgomery, James R. "Nomenclature of the Upper Tennessee River." East Tennessee Historical Society, Publications 28 (1956): 46–57.

Moore, John Trotwood, and Austin P. Foster. Tennessee: The Volunteer State, 1769–1923. 4 vols. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1923.

Morris, Eastin. Tennessee Gazetteer, or Topographical Dictionary; Containing a Description of the Several Counties, Towns, Villages, Post Offices, Rivers, Creeks, Mountains, Valleys, Etc., in the State of Tennessee, Alphabetically Arranged, to Which is Prefixed a General Description of the State. 1834. Reprinted as Eastin Morris' Tennessee Gazetteer, 1834, and Matthew Rhea's Map of the State of Tennessee, 1832. Edited by Robert M. McBride and Owen Meredith, with an introduction by Mary U. Rothrock. Nashville: Gazetteer Press, 1971.

Murray, Melba Lee. Bradley Divided: Bradley County, Tennessee during the Civil War. Collegedale, Tenn.: College Press, 1992.

Nicholson, James L. Grundy County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1982.

“No Addition to Bradley.” Chattanooga Times. 21 October 1919, p. 6.

North Carolina. Session Laws of North Carolina. Newbern, N.C. [et al.], 1776–. Cited as N.C. Sess. Laws.

North Carolina. State Records of North Carolina. Vols. 1–10, Colonial Records of North Carolina, edited by William L. Saunders; vols. 11–26, State Records, edited by Walter Clark. Goldsboro and Raleigh, N.C., 1886–1907. Cited as N.C. St. Recs.

O'Dell, Ruth Webb. Over the Misty Blue Hills: The Story of Cocke County, Tennessee. 1951. Reprint, Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1982.

O'Reilly, Noel S., David C. Bosse, and Robert W. Karrow, Jr. Civil War Maps: A Graphic Index to the "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies." Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, Occasional Publication No. 1. Chicago: Newberry Library, 1987.

Parry, Clive, ed. Consolidated Treaty Series. 231 vols. Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1969–1981.

Paullin, Charles O. Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States. Edited by John K. Wright. Washington, D.C., and New York: Carnegie Institution of Washington and American Geographical Society of New York, 1932. Excellent section on international and interstate boundary disputes.

Pittard, Mabel. Rutherford County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1984.

Pollack, Ervin H., comp. Supplement with Bibliographical Notes, Emendations, and Additions to the Check List of Session Laws, Compiled by Grace E. MacDonald. Preliminary edition, Boston: National Association of State Libraries, 1941. Fills gaps in MacDonald's 1936 compilation (above) to produce the most complete list of state session law through 1935.

Potter, Dorothy Williams, ed. Original Surveyor's Record Book, 1836–1887, Coffee County, Tennessee, with Additional Material on Early Tullahoma. Tulluhoma, Tenn.: DWP Publications, 1976.

Preston, Thomas W. Historical Sketches of the Holston Valleys. Kingsport, Tenn.: Kingsport Press, 1926.

Price, Prentiss, ed. "Two Petitions to Virginia of the North of Holston Men, 1776, 1777." East Tennessee Historical Society, Publications 21 (1949): 95–110.

Puetz, C.J., comp. Tennessee County Maps. Lyndon Station, Wis.: C.J. Puetz, [1988]. An atlas of detailed, modern county maps.

Putnam, A. W. History of Middle Tennessee: Or, Life and Times of Gen. James Robertson. 1859. Reprint, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1971.

Ramsey, J. G. M. Annals of Tennessee, to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its Settlement, as the Watauga Association, from 1769 to 1777; a Part of North-Carolina, from 1777 to 1784; the State of Franklin, from 1784 to 1788; a Part of North-Carolina, from 1788 to 1790; the Territory of the U. States, South of the Ohio, from 1790 to 1796; the State of Tennessee, from 1796 to 1800. Charleston, S.C., 1853.

Rauchle, B.C. "Brief Account of the Early History of Franklin County." Franklin County Historical Review 2, no. 1 (December 1970): 37–40.

Raulston, J. Leonard, and James W. Livingood. Sequatchie: A Story of the Southern Cumberlands. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1974.

Rhea, Matthew. "Map of the State of Tennessee." Reprinted in Eastin Morris' Tennessee Gazetteer, 1834, and Matthew Rhea's Map of the State of Tennessee, 1832. Edited by Robert M. McBride and Owen Meredith. Nashville: Gazetteer Press, 1971. In pocket inside back cover. One of the most important Tennessee maps depicting county boundaries in great detail.

Robbins, D. P., comp. Century Review, 1805–1905, Maury County, Tennessee: A Condensation of the Most Important Events of the Past One Hundred Years, and Descriptive Sketches of the Cities and Villages, Columbia and Mt. Pleasant in Detail, Illustrations of Many Buildings, the Agricultural and Climatic Advantages Fully Brought Out, Commercial, Industrial, Transportational, Religious, Educational, and Professional Matters, Directory of the Cities and Mail List for Thirty-seven Rural Routes of Maury County. 1905. Reprint (including 1906 supplement and corrections), Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1980.

Robnett, Elizabeth Parham. Bledsoe County, Tennessee: A History. Signal Mountain, Tenn.: Mountain Press, 1993.

Rothrock, Mary U., ed. French Broad–Holston Country: A History of Knox County, Tennessee. Knoxville: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1946.

Royce, Charles C., comp. "Indian Land Cessions in the United States." Part 2 of Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896–1897. Washington, D.C., 1899. The standard authority in its field; state maps detail all Indian land-cession treaties with the federal government.

Sames, James Walter, III, comp. Four Steps West: A Documentary Concerning the First Dividing Line in America, and Its Three Extensions, between Virginia and North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Versailles, Ky.: n.p., 1971.

Sanderson, Esther Sharp. County Scott and Its Mountain Folk. Huntsville, Tenn.: Esther Sharp Sanderson, 1958.

Sanderson, Esther Sharp. Scott County: Gem of the Cumberlands. Huntsville, Tenn.: Esther Sharp Sanderson, 1974.

Sands, Sarah G. Cox. History of Monroe County, Tennessee: From the Western Frontier Days to the Space Age. 2 vols. in 3 parts. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1980–1982.

Scott, Edward, comp. Laws of the State of Tennessee, Including Those of North Carolina Now in Force in This State; From the Year 1715 to the Year 1820, Inclusive. 2 vols. Knoxville, 1821.

Sealock, Richard B., Margaret M. Sealock, and Margaret S. Powell. Bibliography of Place-Name Literature: United States and Canada. 3d ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982.

Seals, Monroe. History of White County. N.p., 1935.

Sims, Carlton C., ed. History of Rutherford County. Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Carlton C. Sims, 1947.

Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: Tennessee. Edited by John H. Long. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000. 112 counties, 655 pages, 728 maps.

Sinko, Peggy Tuck. Guide to Local and Family History at the Newberry Library. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1987.

Sistler, Byron, and Barbara Sistler. 1890 Civil War Veterans Census, Tennessee. Evanston, Ill.: Sistler and Associates, 1978.

Smith, Daniel. Map of the Tennassee [sic] State, Formerly Part of North Carolina, Taken Chiefly from Surveys by Genl. D. Smith, and Others. Philadelphia, 1796. "Engraved for Carey's American Edition of Guthrie's Geography Improved."

Smith, Frank H. Frank H. Smith’s History of Maury County, Tennessee. [Columbia, Tenn.]: Maury County Historical Society, 1969.

Smith, Jonathan K. T. Benton County. Tennessee County History Series. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1979.

Smith, Jonathan Kennon. Historic Benton: A People's History of Benton County, Tennessee. Memphis: Jonathan K. T. Smith, 1975.

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