Steve tell me again how I can get a copy of the indexes you posted Betty Landers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Carson" <carson@gscassociates.com> To: <TNBEDFOR@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:23 PM Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Index to Circuit Court Minutes 1859 - 1860 > We have just completed the Index to the Bedford County, Tennessee, > Circuit Court Minutes 1859 - 1860 and Charles Reeves has posted this to: > > http://www.tngenweb.org/bedford/Circuit_minutes/CCC_Index.htm > > There are some interesting things in these minutes that you do not > normally find in Circuit Court minutes, including a lot of "equity" > matters. Some examples: > > 1) There are many examples of divisions of estates and exparte > petitions related to the sale of property held jointly in an estate. > On example is page 127, an exparte petition to sell land with a list > of the "heirs at law of Edward Johnson, deceased": > > "John T. Johnson, Minerva A. Johnson, Louisa Ann who has intermarried > with James Price, Isabelle J. Johnson, George W. Johnson, Benjamin F. > Johnson, Sarah M. Johnson, David L. Johnson, and Mary H. Johnson..." > > 2) There are several divorce decrees such as: > > Muse, Malissa P. vs. James B. Muse, pages 307, 308, 388 > > 3) There are several naturalization petitions in this volume (and > elsewhere in Circuit Court minutes.) These often contain a lot of > detail that is hard to obtain elsewhere. For example, pages 6 and 7 > are a naturalization petition from Selig Florsheim that contains > details such as: > > - he entered the United States in August 1853 through the port of > Baltimore, Maryland when he was 17 years old > - he renounces any allegiance he has to Louis, the Grand Duke of the > Dukedom of Hesse, Darmsted, "whereof of before he was a citizen and > subject" > - he was born a subject of said Dukedom on the 27th day of February, 1836 > > Steve > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNBEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Steve How can one access these minutes? Are they on microfische? - cburrows1@sbcglobal.net. Doyle Landers <dclander@bellsouth.net> wrote: Steve tell me again how I can get a copy of the indexes you posted Betty Landers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Carson" To: Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:23 PM Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Index to Circuit Court Minutes 1859 - 1860 > We have just completed the Index to the Bedford County, Tennessee, > Circuit Court Minutes 1859 - 1860 and Charles Reeves has posted this to: > > http://www.tngenweb.org/bedford/Circuit_minutes/CCC_Index.htm > > There are some interesting things in these minutes that you do not > normally find in Circuit Court minutes, including a lot of "equity" > matters. Some examples: > > 1) There are many examples of divisions of estates and exparte > petitions related to the sale of property held jointly in an estate. > On example is page 127, an exparte petition to sell land with a list > of the "heirs at law of Edward Johnson, deceased": > > "John T. Johnson, Minerva A. Johnson, Louisa Ann who has intermarried > with James Price, Isabelle J. Johnson, George W. Johnson, Benjamin F. > Johnson, Sarah M. Johnson, David L. Johnson, and Mary H. Johnson..." > > 2) There are several divorce decrees such as: > > Muse, Malissa P. vs. James B. Muse, pages 307, 308, 388 > > 3) There are several naturalization petitions in this volume (and > elsewhere in Circuit Court minutes.) These often contain a lot of > detail that is hard to obtain elsewhere. For example, pages 6 and 7 > are a naturalization petition from Selig Florsheim that contains > details such as: > > - he entered the United States in August 1853 through the port of > Baltimore, Maryland when he was 17 years old > - he renounces any allegiance he has to Louis, the Grand Duke of the > Dukedom of Hesse, Darmsted, "whereof of before he was a citizen and > subject" > - he was born a subject of said Dukedom on the 27th day of February, 1836 > > Steve > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNBEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNBEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message