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From: "Nena Smothers" <>
Subject: [TN] Tennessee County 1770-1790 census
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 01:47:51 -0700


Does anyone happen to have this book? I think this is what I am looking for,
thanks, Nena

http://bigtreebooks.com/tennessee.html


1770-1790 CENSUS OF THE CUMBERLAND SETTLEMENTS: Davidson, Sumner and
Tennessee Counties - BTB105072CC

Description: The purpose of this work is to identify the early inhabitants
of the Tennessee Country, something the federal census records fail to do,
for the first forty years of settlement in the area are a blank, at least in
the official enumerations. This work is a reconstruction of the census of
the three Cumberland River counties now in Tennessee. These counties,
originally a part of North Carolina, today are all or part of forty
Tennessee counties. As new counties were formed and subdivided, the early
settlers were caught in changing jurisdictions, so the researcher has had to
search in several jurisdictions for ancestral records, even though the
ancestor may never have moved. To rectify this problem, the author has
divided this work into three sections, one for each of the three counties so
as to place the early inhabitants in the actual area settled. Abstracted
from the public records are all references to those living in the
jurisdictions between 1770 and 1790. From wills, deeds, court minutes,
marriage records, military records, and many related items, the author has
put together a carefully documented list of inhabitants--virtually the
"first" census of Tennessee. - (1990), 2002, 51/2x81/2, paper, alpha.,
biblio., append., 253 pp

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