Assessment Lists of the U.S. Direct Tax Commission for
the District of Tennessee,
1862 MFM 470
"Assessments made under the Act of Congress entitled, 'An Act for
the Collection of Direct Taxes in the insurrectionary districts,
within the United States, and other purposes' approved June 7,
1862, and the act amendatory thereto." Arranged by name of county,
then landowner. Gives number of acres, valuation, and taxes due.
From originals in the National Archives.
Census, Tennessee MFM 13
The population schedules for each census year for the state of
Tennessee. The 1810 census includes Rutherford County only; 1820-
1920 includes the entire state. Schedules through 1840 show names
of only the heads of families and persons not within a family
unit, other members of the families being accounted for
statistically by age group, sex, and race. Subsequent schedules
list each
individual in a household by name with the exception of the
separately bound slave schedules for 1850 and 1860 which show the
name
of the owner together with the number of slaves by age group and
sex.
FBI File on the Highlander Folk School MFM 1296
Index to Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Fought in
Cherokee Disturbance,
Tennessee MFM 221
An alphabetical listing of name, rank, and unit in which he served
for soldiers in the compiled service records of volunteer soldiers
in the Cherokee disturbance. The compiled records are arranged by
unit. Records can be located only if unit is known.
Murfreesboro City Council Minutes, 1878-1912
MFM 481
Reproductions of the minutes of the council meetings.
New York Times Oral History Program MFM 387
Todd Library has the "Sangamon State University Oral History
Collection, Part I" and "Tennessee Regional Oral History Collection
of the Memphis Public Library, Part I" from this collection. Good
source material on midwestern local history (mainly Illinois) and
Memphis history.
North Carolina Land Grants in Tennessee,
1778-91 MFM 471
Lists, prepared in the Office of the Secretary of State of North
Carolina in 1791, of land grants within the territory ceded to the
United
States in 1790. Information given for each grant includes the
number, name of grantee, number of acres, year grant was made,
county,
and location.
Operation Dixie: The CIO Organizing Committee Papers,
1946-1953 MFM 1277
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) launched "Operation Dixie"
as an attempt to unionize the South. This collection includes the records
from four states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
This collection includes correspondence, administrative reports, legal
materials, membership records, serials and flyers, and newspaper
clippings.
Records
of the States - Territory South of the River Ohio (Tenn.) MFM
102
A compilation prepared by the Library of Congress in association
with the University of North Carolina. The purpose of this
monumental collection was to assemble in microfilm form the
official records of the states of the U.S. in order to prepare an
encyclopedia of source materials. Initially limited to the
proceedings of the legislative assemblies of the American colonies,
territories,
and states, it was later expanded to cover other classes. Todd
Library has Class A - Legislative Bodies, which presents the
proceedings, session by session, of the legislative assemblies of
the territory, beginning with the earliest record extant (1794)
down
to a terminal date (1855). The appendix to the journal was often
a medium for official publication by all agencies of state
government
and is therefore an important source for documents for the period.
See MFM 103 for the records concerning Georgia.
Selected Records of the Tennessee Field Office of the
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen,
and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 MFM 468
These records include letters sent by the Assistant Commissioner,
the Superintendent of Education, the Chief Medical Officer, and
the General Claims Agent as well as office records and reports,
leases for abandoned property, and labor contracts. Excellent
source
material for the period covered.
State Department Territorial Papers: Territory Southwest
of the River Ohio, 1790-
1795 MFM 472
Reproduction of the bound volume of papers of the Department of
State relating to the "Southwest Territory". From the series
"Papers
and Records of the Territories" in the National Archives.
Tennessee Convention MFE 227
Duplicates of the official records of the Tennessee State
Constitutional Conventions and copies of the constitutions adopted
1796-1961.
For additional material, see MFE 347-8 (entry # 123).
Will Books - Davidson County, Tenn-North
Carolina MFM 489
Covers 1782? - 1888
World War I Gold Star Records MFM 821
The Gold Star was awarded to those World War I soldiers from
Tennessee who lost their lives in combat or by disease. In the
1920's
the state library gathered information such as service records,
photographs, letters, diaries, and newspaper clippings by and about
these
soldiers.
State Censuses MFE 1682
Includes the following state census enumerations: Alabama - 1838,
1840, 1844; Arkansas - 1854; Georgia - 1824, 1831; Indiana -1801,
1815; Mississippi - 1816, 1840, 1880; South Carolina - 1868, 1875;
Tennessee - 1805, 1812, 1819, 1826, 1833; Texas - 1847, 1848.
State Constitutional Conventions from Independence to
the Completion of the Present
Union; 1776-1959 MFE 347
Official records of the state constitutional conventions and copies
of the constitutions which were adopted. Todd Library has the
following states: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
