{"title":"Tennessee: Overton County","description":"\u003cp\u003eOverton County was created in Middle Tennessee in 1806 from a part of Jackson and named in honor of Judge John Overton, the most intimate friend of Andrew Jackson. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"102-9838","title":"Middle Tennessee's Forgotten Children: Apprentices from 1784 to 1902","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe institution of apprenticeship was a common means of providing for the maintenance and future self-reliance of orphaned children as well as for any children whose parents had abandoned them or otherwise refused to support them. Apprenticeship records are ordinarily buried among volumes of original county court minute books. They are nonetheless valuable to genealogists because they establish the existence of young people who might otherwise go undetected in the more conventional genealogical sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJust as he did for 29 counties of East Tennessee, Dr. Alan Miller has sifted through the apprenticeship records of Middle Tennessee and brought them within the reach of the genealogy researcher. This second volume of Tennessee's \"forgotten children\" contains some 7,000 apprenticeship records scattered among the minutes of the county courts for Middle Tennessee. These records span the period from 1784 to 1902 and list in tabular form the apprenticeships created in the following 35 Tennessee counties: Bedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson, DeKalb, Dickson, Franklin, Giles, Grundy, Hickman, Houston, Humphreys, Jackson, Lawrence, Lewis, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Montgomery, Moore, Overton, Perry, Robertson, Rutherford, Smith, Stewart, Sumner, Van Buren, Warren, Wayne, White, Williamson, and Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDr. Miller extracted this volume from county court minutes on microfilm obtained from the Tennessee State Archives, the Dallas Public Library, and the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. He has arranged the records by county and thereunder chronologically. For each record we are given the name of the apprentice, a date (either the date of the original bond or indenture, or a subsequent date), the age at apprenticeship, the name of the master, and miscellaneous information ranging from the name of the mother or a sibling, race, cause of apprenticeship (e.g., orphan), his\/her trade, etc.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan N. 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A plat map accompanies each survey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the time, many present Tennessee counties were not in existence and some of the residences mentioned could well be within one of the modern counties of Cumberland, Morgan, Scott, and Fentress. The abstracting of these surveys includes all names appearing in original survey, neighbors, and pertinent information concerning the property.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author provides instructions for obtaining an official copy of a plat and survey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eExample:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePage #8\u003cbr\u003e Surveyed 12 March 1808 for \u003cu\u003eElias Ferguson\u003c\/u\u003e, 168 acres claimed by right of improvement occupancy and pre-emption in Rhea County on the head-waters of ... adjacent to John Wassons corner, east to William Johnsons' second corner, south to where John Wasson's line intersects said Johnsons and with said Wasson's line west to his corner, including his improvement where he now lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlat Map Below Included In Entry *Enlarged For Clarity*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/4th.jpg?v=1694566167\" alt=\"Plat Map\" style=\"float: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames L. 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These Civil Districts were used for election, school board representation and commissioners, etc. In combining the Tax listing and the Civil District, it is a great vehicle for locating the individual you are researching.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eExample from this volume:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eDistrict Number 4 - Arms, Archibald; Arms, John; Arms, Robert; Arms, William; Ashlock, Jesse; Ashlock, Thomas; Arterberry, G. W.; and Anderson, J. B.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/blockquote\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames L. 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They are a great listing of the early settlers in the Cumberland Mountain area of Tennessee at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eExample from this volume:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003ePage 5 - Deed from Joseph Hart to William Douglass November 11, 1806 - 300 acres $3000.\u003cbr\u003e Hart in the county of Blount, granted to William Douglas, John Sharp, John McAllister and Thomas Hart containing 1000 a. con. Being in the Middle district, on the waters of Roaring River, Grant No. 1257. Dated the July 30 1793, Witnesses, Joseph Hart, of John McClellier, Robert McClure.\u003cbr\u003e Clk. Joseph Hart\u003cbr\u003e Registered H. L. 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Principal contents include the following: Abstracts of Deeds, Wills, Grants, and 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; and Index to Overton County Will Books, 1870-1891.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdythe Rucker Whitley\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1967), 2002, paper, 97 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780806308418\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e102-6335\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GPC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41773056000118,"sku":"102-6335","price":20.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/102-6335-1500px.png?v=1777310354"}],"url":"https:\/\/heritagebooks.com\/collections\/tennessee-overton-county\/tennessee-clay-county.oembed","provider":"Heritage Books, Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}