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