Putnam County, Tennessee Court Minutes, 1842-1856.


Book Description

By: W.P.A., Pub. 1934, Reprinted 2018, 308 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-874-9. Putnam County was created in 1842 from parts of: White, Overton, Jackson, Smith and DeKalb Counties. Circuit court records are another unique source for tracing those elusive family members. The type of records found within this book are: Petitions for divorce, breach of peace, assault & battery, guardianship, horse stealing, indictments for murders, indictments for larceny, bigamy charges, oaths relating to service in Revolutionary War, Deeds of gifts possession of counterfeit money, and many, many other interesting tidbits of information concerning persons of Putnam County that are not available elsewhere.










Hawkins County, Tennessee Circuit Court Minutes, 1822-1825


Book Description

This publication provides a complete collection of Hawkins County, Tennessee court records, with a full-name index which refers to the page number in the original document, spanning the years 1822-1825. "The WPA Records are, for the most part, carbon copies of the original that was typed on onion skin paper during the Depression. Since these records were typed on poor machines by people who did not type in some cases and at the same time, they were read by persons not always sure of the older handwritten materials, the results are often less than perfect. ... Sometimes there are water stains and burned edges around the paper."