Tipton County, Tennessee, Court Minutes, Civil and Criminal - in two volumes:
Volume 1, June 1843 - July 1845, indexed, 331 pages
Volume 2, July 1845 - June 1847, indexed, 322 pages
Volume 1, June 1843 - July 1845, indexed, 331 pages
Volume 2, July 1845 - June 1847, indexed, 322 pages
These two volumes of Circuit Court records of proceedings that took place in the Tipton County Courthouse in the town of Covington, Tennessee, cover a variety of types of court cases. There are challenges to wills, divisions of property, lawsuits, trials for everything from murder to petit larceny, people being fined for horseracing or illegal voting, and dower petitions. In short, these make up the story of life in Tennessee in the 1840's.
Some of the most common surnames found in these records are Booker, Caruthers, Dillahunty, Farrington, Glass, Hartsfield, Holly, Kneeland, Lauderdale, Miller, Owen, Parrish, Phelps, Quinley, Ralph, Sharp, Talbot, Trobaugh, Wilson, Wooten, and Yarbrough.