Welcome aboard, Ladye! * * * To [email protected] >The libraries out here doesn't have anything on Warren County...Do you know >where I can find a Will around 1829?,,,,,Thanks > I have a copy of Sistler's TN Wills and Administrations (Index to wills/admins only-no abstracts) Do you need a look-up? * * * to Judy: >Also, are there any records, at >all, of early Rev War Vet residents of Warren County? This for the same time >frame: prior to 1820. > Have you seen the book "Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files" by Virgil D. White? These are country-wide alphabetical abstracts of the files..a goldmine of info if your ancestor is listed. They also show the widows and heirs applications for the pension where the soldier was deceased, if memory serves. And, if I undertand the question properly, chain-carrier wasn't so much a profession, as an interested person taking part in the surveying process of the land, someone close to the land-owner. Am I correct on this, Fred? Bonnie