Jefferson County Genealogy & History Website

Business Daybooks, Ledgers, Account Books, Family Bibles, and Private Record Books
at the Jefferson County, Tennessee, Museum & Archives


NOTE:   These volumes were identified by volunteer members of the Jefferson County Genealogical Society while inventorying the Museum & Archives' holdings.  The list is presented in chronological order by beginning date of record.  Contact the Archives in Dandridge for more information or to view a specific volume.

Business Account Books, Day Books, and Ledgers

  • Account Book, Aug 1802 - Apr 1803 [Covers missing; some of first pages missing; most pages are covered with poems and articles clipped from newspapers circa 1860; loaned to Museum by Frontis CLINE]

  • "John DONALDSON's Book of Records," Mar 1822 - Jan 1826 [Covers missing]

  • Day Book, Dandridge, Mar 1836 - Sep 1837

  • Day Book: Philadelphia, May 1836; Baltimore, May & Jun 1836; Pleasant Hill, Sep 1836; Woodlawn, Mar 1849 - Feb 1850; 1838 - 1840 individual accounts in back [Individual accounts listed one page per name]

  • Day Book, 1839 - 1842 [Indexed, missing A-E; one page per name]

  • Day Book, 1839 - 1843 [Indexed; loose papers]

  • Day Book, COXE's Branch and Mill Springs, Aug 1840 - Oct 1843

  • Day Book, Woodlawn, Jul 1845 - Mar 1849 [Additional information on end papers and last pages of book]

  • Day Book, Dumplin Creek, 1851 - 1878

  • Day Book, Dandridge, Apr 1856 - Mar 1857 [Additional information on end papers]

  • "W. P. INMAN Co.," Dandridge, 1857 - 1862

  • Day Book, Dandridge, Apr 1857 - Jul 1858 [Additional information on page 716]

  • Day Book, Dandridge, Aug 1857 - Apr 1858

  • Journal, Dandridge, Sep 1857 - Feb 1860 [Entries alphabetical by month; notation near end: "Sales by O. H. DEAN"]

  • "HARRIS BLACKBURN," New Market, Aug 1858 - Dec 1859

  • Day Book, Dandridge, Aug 1858 - Mar 1860

  • Day Book Ledger, 1860 - 1861[Loose papers; one page per name]

  • "INMAN & CROOKSHANKS," Dandridge, Mar 1860 - Jan 1861

  • Day Book, Dandridge, Apr 1860 - Oct 1861 [Additional information on end papers]

  • Single page of names and "doodles," dated Mar 1862, front and back of page [Appears to be a rough draft of an index to an unidentified book]

  • Day Book, Jun 1890 - Oct 1893

  • Day Book, Dec 1890 - Dec 1905 [Indexed; one page per name]

  • Day Book, Nov 1893 - 1902 [Loose papers; numerous gaps in used pages]

  • Day Book, Dandridge, 1895 - 1897 [Loose pages; one page per name]

  • Day Book, May - Dec 1896 [Indexed; one page per name; only 136 pages used]

  • "Ashewood Milling Company," Nov 1897 - circa 1903 [Loose pages; index begins page 290]

  • Day Book, Name illegible, Shilo Church, Jun - Oct 1898

  • "Book D of J. C. BEELER," Mossy Creek, 1898 only [Loose papers; indexed; only 35 pages used]

  • Day Book, Dandridge, May 1903 - Jun 1904 [Loose papers; one page per name]

  • Day Book Ledger, Sep 1903 - circa Jun 1904 [Indexed]

  • Day Book, Jan 1904 - Apr 1915 [Indexed; gaps in used pages]

  • Day Book Ledger, Nov 1904 - circa Sep 1905 [Loose papers; indexed; one page per name; only 108 pages used]

  • Day Book Ledger, Nov 1904 - Dec 1905, some 1906 and 1909 entries [Loose papers; indexed]

  • Day Book Journal, 1905 - 1907 [one page per name; badly damaged by insects]

  • Cash Book, Jan 1906 - Nov 1908

  • "New Market Bank Stockholders & Directors Meeting Minutes," Apr 1908 - Sep 1929 [Only 86 pages used]

  • Ledger, Jan 1912 - Nov 1913

  • Day Book, Dec 1924 - May 1925

  • "FRENCH & MOORE," Sep 1926 - Oct 1928, 1932 (one page) [Only 9 pages used]

  • "P. L. CHAMBERS & Sons," 1927, 1939 - 1941 [large gap between 1927 and 1939 sections]

  • "New Market Bank," Oct 1929 - Aug 1932 [Index unused; contains loose papers on liquidation of assets]



Professional Records

  • "A. BLACKBURN," Spring Place, 1837 - 1838, and New Market, 1838 [Indexed; contains loose invoice to Dr. BLACKBURN, dated 10 Jan 1859]

  • (Dr. Archabald BLACKBURN), New Market, 1839 - 1841 [Indexed; additional information on end papers]

  • "A" (Dr. Archabald BLACKBURN), New Market, 1847 - 1849 [Contains loose receipt dated 1839]

  • "B" (Dr. Archabald BLACKBURN), New Market, Jan 1850 - Apr 1852 [Indexed; includes letter and promissory note to Dr. BLACKBURN re: mineral rights]

  • "Day Book C" (Dr. Archabald BLACKBURN), New Market, 1852 - 1855 [Indexed]

  • "Day Book D" (Dr. Archabald BLACKBURN), New Market, 1856 - 1858 [Loose papers; additional info on end papers]

  • Undated casebook of Judge J. SWANN [handwritten transcriptions of important case citations used as precedents]


School and Academy Records

  • Maury Academy Trustee Journal, Apr 1818 - Aug 1831 [Back of book has information from 1883 and 1884]

  • Maury Academy Account Book, Sep 1845 - Dec 1882 [Loose papers; miscellaneous information up to 1899 in back]


City and Town Records

  • Dandridge First Minutes, May 1907 - Jan 1936 [Covers missing]

  • New Market First Minutes, Jul 1911 - Jan 1918


Scrapbooks and Other Records

  • Scrapbook of Anna Lydia CLINE HUMBIRD, born March 22, 1874 [Contains programs from Maury Academy]

  • Five school text books with signatures and residences of various members of the SWANN family

  • Ledger from sale of Estate of Robert HAMILTON, deceased, April 28, 1862


Family Bibles

  • Bible, dated 1830, contains loose record of LONG family [Donated by Clarence REESE]

  • Hester PIERCE WALKER Bible, dated 1853, contains records of PIERCE and WALKER family [Also has postcards and unidentified baby photo; donated by Nellie NEWMAN, New Market]

  • Bible, dated 1909, belonged to Isaac G. LINDSEY, contains records of LINDSEY family


Church Minutes

  • Bent Creek Church Minutes (typescript); on loan to Dandridge Memorial Library [Microfilmed by TN Archives]

 
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