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These court minutes give a picture of life on the expanding frontier and also demonstrate how events were handled: not just disputes and lawsuits, but also the building of roads and bridges, the handling of troubles like insanity, illegitimacy, death, guardianships, apprenticeships, and the remarriage of widows. Growing urbanization is shown in the purchases of town lots, repairs to courthouse and jail, and the licensing of ordinaries, ferries, and mill sites. Sheriffs' reports deal with lawbreakers, delinquent taxes, and public sales. Deeds, depositions, and powers of attorney may refer to places of previous residence. The information was transcribed from microfilm. It is chronologically arranged and includes an every name index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Wells\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1994), 2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 234 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788400728\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-W0072\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12241098637430,"sku":"101-W0072","price":24.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-w0072-1-1500px.png?v=1777308740"},{"product_id":"101-w0112","title":"Williamson County, Tennessee County Court Minutes, July 1812-October 1815","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Williamson County, Tennessee was formed from part of Davidson County in 1799, the first surviving census is the 1820 enumeration. Other records must be used to throw light on families of those early years. Minute Book Two of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions - the County Court - contains matters which passed before the justices of the peace from July 1812 to the end of 1815. In these pages can be found: names of new settlers, landowners whose claims conflicted, or the wording of whose grants needed to be corrected, whose taxes were unpaid, or who were selling land in other counties or states. As new farms were created, old roads had to be changed and new roads laid off; men doing these tasks would probably be local residents, thus providing clues to the names of neighbors and possible relatives. Minutes also provide names and relationships in the proving of wills, providing for widows and children, guardians, dowers, apprentices, indigents, and illegitimate children. An every name index adds to the value of this work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Wells\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1994), 2008, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 170 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788401121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-W0112\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12241008754806,"sku":"101-W0112","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-w0112-1500px.png?v=1777308761"},{"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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It is surrounded by the present day counties of: Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Davidson, Marshall, Williamson, and Wilson counties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1992, paper, 199 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893084721\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-TN67\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39466454483062,"sku":"117-TN67","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-tn67-1500px.png?v=1777315357"},{"product_id":"117-tn68","title":"Williamson County, Tennessee Deed Books C-D-E, 1811-1820, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis middle Tennessee county was created in 1803 from Davidson, Williamson and Wilson Counties. It is surrounded by the present day counties of Bedford, Cannon, Coffee, Davidson, Marshall, Williamson, and Wilson counties. People who were buying and selling these lands were scattered everywhere, with some persons living in Georgia, Mississippi Territory, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1992, paper, 178 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893084738\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-TN68\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39466460414070,"sku":"117-TN68","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-tn68-1500px.png?v=1777315357"},{"product_id":"117-tn66","title":"Williamson County, Tennessee Wills and Inventories, 1800-1818","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliamson County was formed in 1799 from Davidson County, These two will books contain not only wills of persons who died, but also inventories of estates with lists of persons purchasing goods, lists of slaves mentioned in estates and in sales, estate settlements etc... This volume contains the names of approximately 11,000 persons.and until 1804 it extended to the Alabama line. Later counties cut out of this original Williamson County were: Bedford, Lincoln, Marshall, Maury, Rutherford, and Giles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Lynch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1992, paper, 144 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780893084714\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e117-TN66\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Historical Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39466466574454,"sku":"117-TN66","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/117-tn66-1500px.png?v=1777315356"},{"product_id":"101e-tn1459","title":"Williamson County, Tennessee Tax Listings, 1800-1801, 1805","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliamson County, located in middle Tennessee, has a long history. Created in 1799, it was named for Hugh Williamson of North Carolina. 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