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é INVENTORY OF THE COUNTY ARCHIVES
[ OF TENNESSEE
  Ne. sz. LoUDoN cormw (LoUDoN)
_   Prepared by
 j The Tennessee Historical Records Survey
  Division of Communi+;y Service Programs
ff Work Projects Administration
  Sponsored by
  The Tennessee State Planning Commission
  Nashville, Tennessee
  The Tennessee Historical Records Survey
  March 1941
 

 The Historical Records Survey Program
Sargent B, Child, National Director
Madison Bratton, State Supervisor
Research and Records Programs
Harvey Ea Becknell, Director
Milton Wg Blanton, Regional Supervisor V
T. Marshall Jones, State Supervisor
Division of Com unity Service Programs
Florence Kerr, Assistant Com issioner
Blanche M. Ralston, Chief Regional Supervisor
Betty Hunt Luck, State Director
WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION A
Howard O. Hunter, Commissioner
R. L. MacDcugall, Regional Director
· S. Tate Pease, State Administrator

 FOREWORD C
The Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee is one of a
number of guides to historical materials prepared throughout the United
States by workers on the Historical Records Survey Program of the Work
Projects Administration. The publication herewith presented, an inven-
tory of the archives of Loudon County, is number 55 of the Tennessee
series.
The Historical Records Survey Program was undertaken in the winter
of 1955-56 for the purpose of providing useful employment to needy
unemployed historians, lawyers, teachers, and research and clerical
workers. In carrying out this objective, the project was organized to
compile inventories of historical materials, particularly the unpublished
government documents and records which are basic in the administration
of local government, and which provide invaluable data for students of
political, economic, and social history, The archival guide herewith
presented is intended to meet the requirements of day-to-day amninistra-
tion by the officials of the county, and also the needs of lawyers,
businessmen and other citizens who require facts from the public records
for the proper conduct of their affairs, The volume is so designed that
it can be used by the historian in his research in unprinted sources in ‘
the same way he uses the library card catalog for printed sources.
The inventories produced by the Historical Records Survey Program
attempt to do more than give merely a list of records-—they attempt
further to sketch in the historical background of the county or other
unit of government, and to describe precisely and in detail the organi-
zation and functions of the government agencies whose records they list.
The county, town, and other local inventories for the entire county
will, when completed, constitute an encyclopedia of local government as
well as a bibliography of local archives.
The successful conclusion of the work of the Historical Records
Survey Program, even in a single county, would not be possible without
the support of public officials, historical and legal specialists, and
many other groups in the community. Their cooperation is gratefully
acknowledged.
The Survey Program was organized by Luther H. Evans who served as
Director until March l, 1940, when he was succeeded by Sargent B. Child,
who had been National Field Supervisor since the inauguration of the
Survey. The Survey Program operates as a Nation-wide series of locally
sponsored projects in the Division of Community Service Programs of which
Mrs. Florence Kerr, Assistant Commissioner, is in charge.
- HOWARD O. HUNTER
Commissioner
-.l

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PREFACE -
The Federal Historical Records Survey was inaugurated in Tenn-
essee early in 1956; it expired, pursuant to an act of Congress, on
August 51, 1959. By the provisions of the Emergency Relief Act of
1939, it became necessary for the project to become locally sponsored.
The present project, the Tennessee Historical Records Survey succeeded
the Federal Survey on September l, l939. It is sponsored by the
Tennessee State Planning Commission and cosponsored by the counties
and municipalities of the State, and several libraries. The Tennessee
Survey is engaged not only in surveying county archives, but also
municipal archives, church archives, manuscript depositories and
collections, imprints, and preparing transcriptions of selected early
county court minutes. A list of the Tennessee $urvey's publications
follows the indexes to this Inventory.
While the new order has in no way brought about a change in the
standards of the Federal Survey, it has been partially responsible for
certain revisions of editorial concepts. The Tennessee Survey, for
example, has instituted a series of special publications to make avail-
able certain materials accumulated in the State Office editorial pro-
cedures which may be of general interest. Also, the county archives
inventories are assuming a somewhat different form. '
The Tennessee Survey is now engaged in preparing a comprehensive
statement of the general law regulating county government in the State.
It is expected that this book will serve as a handbook on the organi-
zation, structure, and evolution of county government in Tennessee,
, and will make it unnecessary to repeat certain items of general informa-
tion in the various inventories. The essays in this Inventory are,
therefore, limited to special legislation concerning Loudon County or
an exposition of the manner in which the general law has been, in effect,
altered, and only such considerations of the general law as are necessary
to state the facts of existence of the offices, the dates of their crea-
tion, their present status, the manner in which filled, and the terms.
The complexities of the school laws, however, have made it necessary for
the sake of continuity that the discussion of education be more detailed.
This treatment has also been followed, but not as fully, with regard to
highway legislation.
The arrangement of offices and entries in this Inventory is a re-
sult of a process of trial and error and the pattern followed is one
settled upon in earlier publications; however, the complex nature of
some offices, particularly those with divergent functions, precludes
an absolutely logical arrangement. In general, the arrangement of
offices consists of grouping those of a similar nature. For example,
the quarterly county court, the governing body, is followed by the
county judge, the chief executive officer; the courts are placed to-
gether, followed by the jury commission and the law enforcement offices.
Within the offices, related and similar records are grouped under ap-
propriate subject headings. The recordsentries indicate the title,

 v
Preface
dates, quantity, labeling, contents, arrangement, indexing, method of I
recordation, size, location, and condition of the record if it is not
in good condition.
The original field inventory of the archives of Loudon County was
completed by workers of the Federal Historical Records Survey in Ten-
nessee in October 1957. The inventory was rechecked in the spring of
1959. The archives listed in this book are those available on April l,
1959.
The field inventory in Loudon County was made by J. Cecil Hackney
and Henry Mizell under the immediate supervision of Arch Faidley, Jr.,
and the general supervision of Mary Alice Burke. The record entries
were prepared under the supervision of Vylva Holland, the historical
sketch, Edmund C. Gass; the legal sections, William Miller and Henry
Hight; the alphabetical index, Ruth Winton assisted by Ruth Foster;
and the housing and care essay, floor plans, and chart, Charles G.
` Kimbrough; the typing and stencil cutting were done by Helen P. Allen
and Patsy R. Floyd.
The Tennessee Survey gratefully acknowledges the help and cooperation
of all the officials of Loudon County under whose administrations the
inventory and recheck were conducted, and without whose assistance this y
inventory would never have been made. Particularly helpful were County
Judge S. P. Dannell, County Court Clerk H. L. Brooks, Register Roy M.
Brooks, and Clerk and Master Joe H. Hudson.
The Tennessee Survey staff has profited in all phases of its work by
the constructive advice and criticism of the Washington staff, The Loudon
County inventory was made and preparation of this book instituted during
` the administration of T. Marshall Jones as State Supervisor of the Survey
before he became State Supervisor of the Research and Records Programs
and while Dan Lacy, Assistant to the Director of Historical Records Survey
Projects, served as Regional Supervisor.
The Inventory of the County Archives of Tennessee will, when com-
pleted, consist of E_set—bf 95 volumes with*a separatd number for each
county in the State. The number assigned this Inventory, 55, merely
indicates the alphabetical position of Loudon among the counties of the
State. The publications of the Historical Records Survey Projects in all
states are limited in number and consequently are placed in designated
centrally located depositories. Inquiries requesting the locations of the
nearest depository should be addressed to the State Supervisors or to the
Division of Community Service Programs, Work Projects Administration,
Washington, D. C., for the attention of the Director of Historical Records
Survey Program.
Madison Bratton, State Supervisor
The Tennessee Historical Records Survey
Nashville
March 20, 1941

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TABLE OF CONTENTS ,`
Introduction
Page
1; HiStOriC9~1 Sketch •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••I•I•l•••••••IDI 4
  of Loudon COuH`by ••••¤••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••  
2. The Present Governmental Organization of Loudon County ............. 15
Chart of I.¤OU.dO1.l   Goverment ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••  
L Counties of Tennessee with Years of Creation ..................... 19
3. Housing, Care, and Accessibility of the Records .................... 21
Floor PIEIHS of LOudOI'l   COU.I"‘bhOU.S6 •••••••••••••••••••••¤••••  
4. Abbreviations, Symbols, and Explanatory Notes ...................... 28
Loudon County Offices and Their Records
I-       CIOIIIIOOOIOOIOOOIIIOIIOOOOOIOIIOIIOIIOIIIIOQ  
Original Papers. Court Proceedings. Road Records. Official
Bonds. Financial Record.
III     OIIIIQQIOIOIIOOIIOOOIIIOIOIOIOOOOOOOCIIIOOIOICIIIOOODOI   ·
Reports. Accounts. Warrants Issued. Countersigned Warrants.
Miscellaneous.
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Automobile Records; record of owners; reports. Applications for
Licenses and Permits. Bonds. Licenses Issued: merchants;
privilege. License Registrations; medical; business. Vital
Statistics: marriages; births; deaths. Probate of Deeds and
Mortgages. Tax Records. Court Costs and Jury Service. Receipts
and Disbursements. Miscellaneous.
IVQ Register •••••••••••••IO•••••••••••••••••I••l••••••••••••••••••••|••  
Real and Personal Property: warranty deeds; trust deeds and chattel
mortgages; liens. Military Discharges. Financial Record.
VQ   IOIIIOOIIOIIOIDIOOOIIIOIOGIOOOOOOOOIOIIIOIOOOOIIIIOOOIUIDOI  
VII     IOOIOIIOOIOOOOIIIOIOIIUIOCOIOOIOOIOOOOOIOIOIOUIOIIQOOO  
Original Instruments. Dockets. Record of Proceedings. Enroll-
ments. Jury Service. workhouse Records. Delinquent Tax Sales.
Financial Records: witness accounts; final executions; receipts
and disbursements. Countersigned Licenses. Miscellaneous.
VII• Criminal COuI"b •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••¤•••••I••••••••••••••••  
Original Instruments. Dockets. Record of Proceedings. Jury
Service. Workhouse Records. Financial Records: witness fees;
final executions; receipts and disbursements. Miscellaneous.
      CIIOIOIOOIOOIIOOOOIOOOIIOIOIIOIOOIOOOIIIIOOIIOOOOIOI  

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Table of Contents
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IX; Chancery Court ·••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 65 I
Original Instruments. Dockets. Court Proceedings. Delinquent
Taxes. Insolvent Estates. Financial Records.
XI PYOb&t9 Court CII!IIIOOIOIIIIOOOOIIIOIIOIOOOOOQOIIOOOOOIIIIIIOIIOICI 69
é Original Instruments. Enrollments. Court Proceedings. Inheri-
tances; wills; bonds and letters; inventories and settlements;
` insolvent estates. Inheritance Tax. Insanity Proceedings.
Financial Records.
XI) Juvgnilg Cgurt OCOOIOUIIIIIIIUOOOIIOOIIOOIOIIIOIOOIIIOIIIIOIIOOOOOII 74
— XIIQ Justice Of the Peace QlllllllblIOOICIOIIOIOOOIIIIIIIIOIOIIIIIIOOOIIC 74
Civil and Criminal Dockets; Greenback; Ienoir City; Loudon;
Philadelphia.
XIII. Sheriff IOIIOIOIICCIIIOOIIIIIOIIOIOOIOUIIOIOIIOOIOIOOIOIOIIIOOOIOIIQ 78
Register of Prisoners. Accounts and Fees.
XIV. Coroner IIIOOIOIIIIIDIIIOIIOIIOIOOOIIOOIIOOIOIIIIIIIIIIO|IIO|OI•I|I• 79
XVI Constable OIIOOOOIOOOOOOIOOOOOIDCllOOIllOIIOIOOOOOOOIOOOOIIOOOIOOIll 80
XVI; Tax Assessor ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 8O
Schedules. Assessments.
XVII; Board of Equalization •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 82
XVIII! Tax Collgctor OIOOIOOIlOlOICOOIOOIIOIIIOOIUOOOOIIOOOIOIIIIGIOOIIIUIQ 82
XIX) TFUSt69 OIIDIIOOOOIIIIOIIOIIl||l|I••||IO||OOOIOOOOOOIIOOOOIIIOOOOIIO 82
Tax Records: realty, personalty, and polls; delinquency. Accounts:
receipts and disbursements; warrants paid. Bond Issues. Dog
‘ Register.
XX• Revenue COmmiSSiOn ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 86
XXI• ®€p&Ttm€Dt of EduC&tiOH •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 87
Minutes. Record of Pupils. Record of Teachers. Reports.
Financial Records. Property Records. Correspondence.
XXII• COUHty Physician •;••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 95
XXIII• Highway Department •|•|•||••|•••••|•••••••••||||O•||OIII|••••|I••OOO 95
Minutes. Financial Records; receipts and disbursements; warrants.
' Miscellaneous.
XXIVO Poor COmmiSSiOn ••••••••••••••••r••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 102
XXV. Ranger lllIOIOOOOOOOIIOOOOIIIIOIIOOIOCIOOOIOOOOOIOQIIIOIIIOOOIOICOOO 102

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.X.X-VI; AgI`j.Cu].t`l.1I`€ DGpEII"tm€Y1`b QQIIIIIItCIIIOIOOIOOOIOOIIIIOOIOUIOOI\I••|•••  
Agriculture Reduction Program. Soil Conservation Program. Reports.
Miscellaneous.
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    IIIOIOOIIIIOIIIOIOIIOOIIOIIIOOIOOOIIICIOOIIIOC}-  
Alph&b€tj.C&1 Index ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••¤••••••••••••••••••  
Publications of the Tennessee Historical Records Survey ............ 127

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`‘‘· .· · 1. HISTORICAL SFQTGH ·
· Loudon County, one of Tennessee's youngest and geographically
smallest counties, lies in the heart of the historic valley of East
‘i Tennessee. lenior City is the county's largest municipality, althouyh
_ the seat of government is the town of Loudon.
The creation of Loudon County followed the termination of post-
Civil War Reconstruction in Tennessee and the restoration to power oi
the Conservatives. On June 2, 1870, the General Assembly created Christi-
' ana County from fractions of Roane, Monroe and Blount counties,} but a
few weeks later changed the name of the new county to Loudon.? Establish-
ment of the county had been anticipated and provided for by the framers
of the Constitution of 1570. That instrument, while prohibiting the
establishment of new counties with a population of loss than seven hun-
dred qualified voters and an area less than two hundred and seventy-five
square miles (larger than that of Loudon County), included an exception
providing that a new county might be formed from fractions of Roane,
Monroe, end Blount Counties with the consent of at least two-thirds of
the qualified voters in the portions of the old counties to be afiected,
the boundary of such new county not to approach Maryville, Kingston, or
Madisonville nearer than eleven miles, except that south of the Tennessee I
River the boundary line might approach within ten miles of Kingston.5
The constitutionally-required plebiscite in the fractions of the old counties
forming Loudon County was provided for,4 and the establishment of the
county was approved by the required majority.5 An election of county
officers was ordered6 and held on August 5, 1870.7 The actual organiza-
tion of the county took place on September 5, lC70, in the Baptist Church
of the town of Lcudon.8 Twenty justices of the peace were present at the
organization meeting, and William Y. Huff was elected cheirman.9
` While from time to time since the creation of Loudon County its
boundaries have been altered by the General Assembly, the county is now
delimited on the north-east by Knox County,lO on the east by B1ount,ll
l. Acts l869—70, End ses., ch. 2, sec. l.
2. ZQITQ i‘at"j_?;§>‘, End ees., Ca. vv, see. 4. see also ei;»_u_g¤_  
v. Loudon—CdT,d_heis., 855, 8 Bax., 75, cited in C_lQlZ) 92a.
" 5. cHSt. isvo, am. l0,-sec. 4.
4. Acts-1869-70, 2nd ses., eh, 2, Sec.  
5. KEt§`l@€§?76, End ses., ch. 77.
s. i¤ie.,j`E§6T`i.
7. Minute Book "l," 1870-74, ll, entry 8 in this Inventory.
8. Ibid., 41.
:2, THE`.
l0. Agts-1869-70, End ses., ch. 2, sec. 2.
11.   am. io, See. 4; Acts ieee-v_q, 2nd ses., ch. 2,
Sec. 2; sl2$iR' cB`I`§¥. Loudon ce., 8 1-ze1§‘§§"ss4, and s   vs, cited in
C l§l7, Cgaqnhcts-ldéi, ch;—?l7Q secT—lT_

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Historical Sketch E (First entry p. 35)
on the south by Monroelz and McMinn,15 and on the west and north by
Roane.14 Loudon County has an area of 219 square mi1es,l5 ranking '
eighty-seventh among Tennessee's ninety-five counties in area.16
Much of the richest history relating to Loudon County antedates
the creation of the county. The very name of the county and of the
county seat stems from events constituting a significant chapter in
eighteenth century American colonial history. In 1756 the English
erected Fort Loudoun on the southern bank of the Little Tennessee River
near the mouth of the Tellico River as protection against the French and
their Indian allies. The fort was named for John, Earl of Loudoun, com-
mander of the English forces in America at the outbreak of the French
and Indian.War.1 Although its site was in present Monroe County, the
nemory of thc fort has been perpetuated in Loudon County place nanes.
Nearly a century after the fort was built, the name of the community then
known as B1air's Ferry was changed to Loudon,18 and that town was later
designated as the county seat.1Q The original name of the county
- Christiana - was changed by subsequent legislation to Loudon,2O and
12. Const. 1870, art. 10, sec. 4; Acts 1869-70, 2nd ses., oh. 2,
sec. 2; AEts_1869:70, 2nd ses., ch. 77, sec.—4; Acts 1870-71, 2nd ex. ses.,
eh. ss,   i`T1E1`§ 1871, ch. s, ssc. 2; Acts 1E%`j"é§'§ ELF., eh. 1s,
sec. 2; Acts 1875:MEhi—88, sec. 1; Acts 1877, ch. 165, sec. 1; Acts 1879, `
eh. 1s·r,`EE?. 16; Acts mss, sh. ssj?`5¤TT§ Acts 1887, C11. 196, SACTTY
Acts 1889, ch. 58,—sEE1~1;—Acts 1889, ch. 199, soc. 1; Acts 1889, ch. 255,
sec. 1;_Acts 1891, ch. 67, sec. 1; Acts 1891, ch. 214, sec. 1; Acts 1895,
ch. 27, sec. 1; Acts 1897, ch. 169, sec, 1; Acts 1897, ch. 206, sec._1;_
Acts 1901, ch. 506, Sszi‘1; Acts 1905, ch. 95, sec. 1; Acts 1905, ch. 57,
sec. 1; Pr.A. 1925, ch. 181, scc. 1; Pr.A. 1927, ch. 124, seET—1; Pr.A.
1929, c1£`1T§`1,'Té`éE`. 1; 1¤1~.1. 121,21, ¤nZ`7€7,"E?5. 1; 1¤1~.1. mss, ¤1·1T‘1T%,
seg? 1. DM-- ——w_ --7- —__m·
15. Acts 1869-70, 2nd ses., ch. 2, sec. 2; Acts 1875, ch. 89, sec. 1;
Acts 1879, ch.—137, sec. 5; Acts 1881, ch. 61, secs. 1, 2; Acts 1885, ch.
B??j"`SE°6Z"1; Acts issv, eh. 1§`s‘f`Sé`E`T“1; Acts 1901, sh. s<1v,`§i°§.`1T`
14. ConstT_1870: art. 10, sec. 4; Acts 1889:70, 2nd ses., ch. 2,
sec. 2; Acts 1870:71, 2nd ex. ses., ch.`18:`§EE. 6; Acts 1870-71, 2nd ex.
ses., chi~118:“secT-2; Acts 1875, ch. 140, sec. 1; Rgang Co. vT—Loudon
Co., at Knoxville, 1888,—Eited_in Roane Co. v. Audersondbgix 5_Pibk1e,
_ Ee, ass, 267, cited by c 1917, a2?1°§`T¤EtE`1.s?‘s>,`¤1¤. 1B’7,”E2>¤. a;"1é`1·,'S
1881, ch. 158, secs. 1, 2;—A8ts 1885, ch. 8:-u- -___
15. Fifteenth Census oF them8nited States;1950, 1, Populatior, 1053.
16 .     111TI—é`??E1`a1T,”T€1hE `EE>iEm°i‘é7T§¤e ssET%tT‘§%T”11 ,
The Counties, in University of_7ennessee  , V1,
EBT ;s"", 20. ` """"""
17. For the history of Fort Loudoun, see P. M. Eamcr, "Anglo-French
Rivalry in the Cherokee Country, 1754-1757," North Carolina Historical
Review, 1, No. 3 (July, 1925), 505-622, and HEhEr,"Fort Loudbun in the
Cherokee War, 1758-17G1," Ibid., No. 4, (0ctoher 1925), 442-158.
18. Goodspeed’s, Histbryébf Tennessee, 826.
19. Acts 1869-70,—2nd sesti ch. 2, sec. 9.
20. Acts 1869-70, 2nd ses., ch. 77, sec. 4.

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one of the Tennessee Valley Authority's major dams now under construc- ·
tion near Lenoir City, is named Port Loudoun Dam,‘i '
One of the earliest white frontier outposts in what is now Loudon
County was Fort Grainger, erected by Governor William Blount during the
territorial period of Tennessee's history.  esigned to serve as pro-
· tection against the Cherokee Indians pending the extinction of Indian
I title to the area, Fort Grainger was located on the north bank of the
Tennessee River near the present site of Lenoir City.22 The fort was
named in honor of Mary Grainger, Governor Blount's wife.23
Indian title to the area including present Loudon County was ex-
tinguished by three separate treaties between the United States and the
Cherokees. By the Treaty of Holston, or Blount's Treaty, of July 2,
1791, the Indians relinquished claim to that extreme northern portion
of the present county which lay north of the Hawkins Line, surveyed
six years later.24 By the First Treaty of Tellico, of October 2, 1798,
the Cherokees ceded the area lyinq below the Hawkins Line as far south
as the Tennessee and Little Tennessee rivers,25 and by Calhoun's Treaty
of February 27, 1819, they surrendered the lands south of those streamS.26
The southern portion of present Loudon County was included in the Hiwassee
` I District, created by the General Assembly in 1819.27
_ White settlement of what is now Loudon County seems to have rapidly '
followed the extinction of the Indian title. One of the most prominent of
the early settlers was William Ballard Lenoir, who in 1810 made his home
at the confluence of the Tennessee and Little Tennessee rivers.28 The land
upon which Lenoir settled had been deeded to him in 1809 bv his father,
General William Lenoir, a distinguished North Carolinian,2g although it
,w ` is probable that the younger Lenoir purchased from Judge David Campbell
21. In the case of the dam, the original spelling of the proper name
is employed, while in the case of the town and the county the second "u"
is omitted.
22. Clarence Edwin Carter, ed., The Territorial Papers of the United
_ States, IV, 366, 590, 391; American grass Papers, Indian Affairsiml, 535.
*—*—25] Samuel Cole Williams:—Early—Travels in the Tennessee Country, 560.
' 24. 8 U. S. Stat. 59; Charles C.—Royce, EEEQYT Indian Land Cessions
in the United States; Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American
Ethnolb§y,_U52T_€55T. _—~*__—__~— "__*·—_ —_*~~~—_m__"**`__~——m‘—_`_*___-_——
--25. 8 U. S. Stat.· 62; Royce, op, cit., SGC, 661.
ze. s T1`. s`.   ies; Royce, E5. Elle'., sas, sev.
27. PIX. Ts1§j°"61i. ea, see. 1."` “°"'
‘ 28. Lenbir Papers, University of Tennessee Library, Knoxville. A
second group of Lenoir Papers is located in the McClung Collection of the
Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville, (See Tennessee Historical Records Survey,
Guide to Depositories of Manuscripts Collections in Tennessee, 5, 8;
Te¤neS§§é Historical—heEbrds Survey:Guide—tb-Colleetiens—of—Kanuscripts in
'Tennessee, 6, 9 ), _"-'-~ —* —m__—-Wh-—_ —_ —__—-——w*•-“ __
29. Papers relating to case of Lenoir v. Outlaw, lenoir Papers,
University of Tennessee Library. _' ——

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of Tennessee an additional tract adjacent to that deeded him,5O At ,V
least a portion of the Lenoir lands belonged tc General William Lenoir
under an entry of 1788 made pursuant to a grant of the State of North
Carolina.51 On the other hand, an exchange of letters in 1809 between
_ William B. Lenoir and Judge Campbell relate to the prospective sale by
Campbell to Lenoir of land "adjoining your [Lenoir's] other lends ...."32
Campbell also wrote that "My place added to yours will make one of the
finest in any Country."55 This settlement, the site of present Lenoir
City was early known as Lenoir's or Lenoir Station, and William B, Lenoir
seems to have been its first postnester,$4 There is abundant evidence
that Lenoir engaged profitably in land, cotton and milling enterprises —
· operations that were later continued by his sons under the corporate
name of the Lenoir Manufacturing Company,5b Among other early settlers
¤ in the region were James,`William and Samuel Blair, Jesse and Simeon
Eldridge, Henry Bogard, Jacob Gardenhill, John and Pomeroy Carmichael
and Benjamin Prater.36 James Blair operated a ferry at what is now the
town of Loudon, and the nearby community was known as Blair's Ferry until
given its present name, about 1855,57
Blair's Ferry envisioned o golden future of commerce. In 1852 it
became the northern terminal point of the East Tennessee and Georgia
Rai1road,E8 with a daily train operating to and from Dalton, Goorgia.59
As a junction point of rail and river traffic, Blair's Ferry seemed _
happily situated to prosper and to achieve rank as a large conmmnity in
East Tennessee - provided that it remain the terminus of the railroad,
Indeed, so appealing was the prospect that some of the town’s more zealous
citizens seem to have devised a plan to prevent the extension of the rail-
` road.4O But their dreams were shattered when in 1852 the General Assembly
so arranged the system of state aid to railroads that the Fast Tennessee
. 50. The late Dr. George F. Mellen wrote of the Lenoir tract that
"The lands and improvements were purchased from Judge David Campbcll...."
(George Frederick Mellen, "A Race of barmers," Knoxville Sentinel, May 20,
isis ). """"`"
_ 5l. Lenoir Papers, University of Tennessee Library.
. 52. Cwnpbell to Lenoir, September 12, l809, in Lenoir Papers,
McClung Collection.
55, Ibid, -
54. Lenbir Papers, University of Tennessee Library,
55. Ibid. Records of the Lenoir Manufacturing Company are in the .
_ University_oF Tennessee