East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, Tennessee 37614
E-mail: archives@etsu.edu
Telephone: (423) 439-4338
INTRODUCTION
Title: Miscellaneous Papers
Collection Number: Accession No. 179
Physical Description: 2 boxes; 1 audiocassette tape; 3 oversize folders
Creator: Various donors
Repository: Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance: The documents in this collection were donated by various individuals at different times. For a list of donors see the collection case file and the archives acquisitions logs for the 1980s.
Access: the collection is open for research, though some specific items are restricted (see box and folder list).
Processing Information: Betti Davis completed processing, adn the collection was opened in 1988. Later revisions were completed by Marie Tedesco in 1989 and 1995, and by Norma Myers in 1996.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The material in this collection is arranged by subject headings, by type of document, or proper name associated with the document into one series. The dates span from 1770 to 1980. Included in this series are the following: correspondence, deeds, land grants, court records, diaries, Confederate currency and bonds, broadsides, foreign currency, bills of sale for slaves, land survey maps, hymn book, newspapers, newsclippings, tax notices, and a history of the Carter County Court House. Some of the early historical documents are copies. A number of the documents relate to the early history of East Tennessee. Court records in the series focus on land disputes. The collection also offers biographical material related to various families who settled in East Tennessee.
Some important people mentioned in the collection are: John Overton, John Tipton, Henry Johnson, and John Sevier. Some early businesses represented in the collection are: Johnson's Depot; Rogersville Milling Company; Rogersville Review newspaper, and the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company.
Important subjects covered in the collection include:
Account books--Tennessee
Agricultural prices--Ireland
Bean Station, Tenn. [AT]
Blount, William, 1749-1800
Carter County Courthouse (Elizabethton, Tenn.)
Carter County Courthouse (Elizabethton, Tenn.) [Ph]
Carter County Jail (Elizabethton, Tenn.) [Ph]
Carter, George W.
Distilling, Illicit
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company
East Tennessee-customs [At]
Franklin (State)
Harper family
Johnson, Henry, 1809-1874
New Market, Tenn. Train Wreck of 1904
Railroad accidents--Tennessee--New Market
Rogersville Milling Company
Rogersville Review
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad
Sevier, John, 1745-1815
Sevier family
Slave bills of sale
Store ledgers
Tennessee, East--Social life and customs
Tipton, John, 1730-1813
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Wexler family
BOX AND FOLDER LIST
Box 11. Account Records: receipts, invoices, etc., 1851-1918.
2. Biographical material related to Alfred Wexler, 1773-1842.
3. Bills of Sale for Negro slaves, October 18, 1836.
4. Building permit sign, undated.
5. Conscripts and deserters list: men assigned to Captain R ; Light Artillery, May 186 .
6. Carter County Legal Records, 1823.
7. Confederate Bond (1), 1864. (RESTRICTED)
8. Confederate Money, 1861-1864. (RESTRICTED)
9. Confederate Ribbon of Isaac N. Castleberry, 1889.
10. Correspondence (some copies), 1784-1948. See list on folder.
11. Court Records (some copies), 1778-1824.
12. Deeds and land records (some copies), 1770-1855. See list on folder.
13. East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Company Annual Report, 1868-69.
14. Fain, Samuel: land survey, April 1780.
15. Foreign Currency, 1889, 1906.
16. Greeneville Democrat, May 1 and 8, 1860.
17. Hannan, Frank: letter and POW release, 1863-65. (Copies)
18. H. E. Harman Coal Company pay envelope, 1946.
19. Hatcher, Stephen: letter and master roll, April 1864. (Copy)
20. History of Carter County Courthouse, Elizabethton, Tennessee, 1929.
21. Hymn Book: Hosannas to the King, 1901.
22. Johnson, Andrew, of Edwardsport, Ind. to Andrew English of Fall Branch, Tennessee, 1847.
23. Johnson City Proclamation, Woman Suffrage Diamond Jubilee, 1995
24. McMillan, John J.: pension record, 1909.
25. Memorabilia and letter fragment, 1848-1978.
26. Miscellaneous bills and bank notes, 1778-1867. See list on folder.
27. Mitchell's School and Family Geography Map of the United States, 1852.
28. Mother Shipton's Prophecy, undated.
29. Newsclippings and pamphlet, 1838-1973.
30. Recipie for distilling alcohol, undated.
31. Reeves, Mark: Carter County land grant, 1825. (Copy)
32. The Religious Ark, Athens, Tennessee, 1841.
33. Rogersville Milling Company, undated.
34. Rogersville Review, 1887 (copy of page); 1975 (memorabilia)
35. Royal Lyceum Theatre (Knoxville, Tennessee?), broadside, production of "Tutor's Assistant" and Gay's Beggar's Opera, 1848. (Removed to Oversize Folder 3)
36. Sevier-May-Yoacham Family Genealogy, 1960.
37. Speeches (printed), March 1838. See folder list.
38. State of Franklin documents (copies), 1784-1795.
39. Stevens, Jacob vs. Nathaniel Heywood, court case in Colleton District (North Carolina?), 1822. (one copy, one original)
40. Survey map: Adams, Nolen, Trevehon, and Nana (?), Clark's Branch, 1783.
41. Tax Notices, 1869. Removed to Oversize Folder 3
42. Unidentified diary, with loose recipes and poems, 1888.Removed to Oversize Folder 3
43. Letter from Edward Harper of Gortanigan Newton Stewart, County Tyrone, Ireland to William Harper of Allen County, Indiana dated January 29, 1872 (information on the family and on agricultural prices in Ireland at the time).
Box 2
Ledger and Store Account Book, Carter County, Tennessee, 1836-39.
AUDIO-VISUAL AND OVERSIZE MATERIALS
One audiocassette has been removed and placed in the audio-visual storage area. The tape consists of an approximately 40 minute interview conducted in 1984 by Ricky Johnson, Bean Station, Tennessee, with Helen Bishop, also of Bean Station. Bishop, in her eighties at the time of the interview, discussed customs and ways of living common when she was a child and young adult. Among the topics she discussed were medical treatment, food, raising crops, barter, education, and religion.
Oversize Material
Folder 1
1. Blue Mountain Route: Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad map undated.
2. Knoxville Female Institute Diploma, Bella L. Swan, 1866.
3. District Court Knoxville: compensation Jurors, October Term 1810.
4. Supreme Court Order: to the Marshall of East Tennessee District, Federal Court, for John Anthony, January 18, 1820.
5. Advertisement, sale of lands, East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company, March 18, 1896.
6. Clinchfield Railroad Prints, 1958. (2 prints)
7. Land grant, State of Tennessee to John Overton, Shelby County, 1822. (Removed from Box 1:10)
8. Deed, Charles Robertson to George Gray, Watauga Settlement, 1777. (Copy; removed from Box 1:10)
9. Land grant, State of Tennessee to George W. Carter, Carter County, 1824. (Removed from Box 1:10)
10. Patent Sale, John Fardyce of Morgantown, Virginia to G. W. Miller, Washington County, Tennessee, 1858. (Removed from Box 1:10)Folder 2
1. "A Card," broadside relating to Andrew Johnson, 1853.
2. Railroad Bond, Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, January 1, 1867.
3. Jonesboro, Tennessee Whig, June 9, 1841.
4. Knoxville Tribune, June 23, 1847.
5. Greeneville Democrat, May 1 and 8, 1860.
6. Methodist Advocate (Atlanta), 1874-1876. (5 issues)
7. The Claiborne Progress (Tazewell, Tennessee), 1932. (2 issues)
8. The Journal and Tribune (Knoxville), September 25, 1904 (New Market, Tenn. Train Wreck of 1904).Folder 3
1. Royal Lyceum Theatre (Knoxville, Tennessee?), broadside, production of "Tutor's Assistant" and Gay's Beggar's Opera, 1848.
2. Tax Notices, 1869.
3. Unidentified diary, with loose recipes and poems, 1888.
4. "Ode to a Confererate Bill" (poem), printed on cardboard with Confederate States of America two-dollar bill pasted in the center of the carboard.
5. Confederate States of America Loan bond in the amount of five hundred dollars, dated March, 2, 1863.
6. Jas. A. February's commission as "Aid de Camp" of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee, February 26, 1891
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