This 427-page book abstracts Stewart County's 18 earliest surviving Settlements, Wills and Bonds books, covering the period 1804-1896. These are the most genealogically-rich county records, and are sometimes called the "will books". Transactions recorded in the Settlements, Wills and Bonds books included, but were not limited to wills, estate inventories, sales and settlements, delinquent tax reports, guardian and apprenticeship bonds, and guardian's reports, juries of inquest into murders and deaths by suspicious cause, ...
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This 427-page book abstracts Stewart County's 18 earliest surviving Settlements, Wills and Bonds books, covering the period 1804-1896. These are the most genealogically-rich county records, and are sometimes called the "will books". Transactions recorded in the Settlements, Wills and Bonds books included, but were not limited to wills, estate inventories, sales and settlements, delinquent tax reports, guardian and apprenticeship bonds, and guardian's reports, juries of inquest into murders and deaths by suspicious cause, emancipation bonds, county officers' bonds, administrator's and executor's bonds, tavern-keeper and ferry-keeper bonds, and poor house commissioner's reports. Special entries also appearing in the book include: an 1820 deposition, taken at the future site of Memphis, describing the land at the mouth of Wolf River in the 1790's; district boundaries as established in the 1836 division of Stewart County into civil districts. The book includes an Every-name Index and a Place Index.
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