TENNESSEE REPORTS, OR CASES RULED AND ADJUDGED IN THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF LAW & EQUITY, AND FEDERAL COURTS FOR THE STATE OF TENNESSEE by John Overton, printed by G. Wilson, Knoxville, 1813. Octavo, 535 pages with Index. Hardbound in brown leather with gilt title lettering and decorative lines on spine. 8 3/8" H x 5 […]

REVISAL OF ALL THE PUBLIC ACTS OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA AND OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE NOW IN FORCE IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE advised in the winter of 1809 by John Haywood, Esq., Attorney at Law, and formerly a Judge of the Superior Courts of North Carolina, printed and sold by Thomas […]

Major James Sevier Signed State of Franklin sheriff summons order with handwritten text reading: to the Sheriff of Washington…We command you to take Thomas Dail if in your Belwick [sic] and him safly [sic] keep so that you have him Before the Justices of Our Court of pleas and Quarter Se[s]sions to be Held on […]

Three (3) East Tennessee autographs, including Charles McClung, Hugh Lawson White, and John Rhea. 1st item: Order for the sheriff of Knox County (in the territory South of the Ohio) to deliver Nathaniel Lyon and Thomas Lyon to the county courthouse to answer charges of a broken covenant to Samuel McPheeters regarding one hundred dollars […]

Collection of Twenty Five (25) Tennessee Governor signed documents, 1820-1923. Includes one (1) Joseph McMinn signed land grant (1820), one (1) William Carroll signed power of attorney registration (1824), one (1) Newton Cannon signed land grant (1835), one (1) James C. Jones signed land grant (1841), one (1) Neill S. Brown signed Justice of the […]

John Sevier (1745-1815), First Governor of Tennessee, signed land grant and sheriff summons (2 items). 1st item: Land grant document signed by John Sevier as Governor, granting Abraham Maury, assignee of the Heirs of David Rogers, three hundred and eighty acres in Williamson County, dated May 25, 1808 (date entered: August 7, 1807). The land […]

Three (3) Governor Willie Blount (Third Governor of Tennessee, 1809-1815) signed land grants: White County and Davidson County, 1st item: Land grant document, granting Nicholas Avery [assignee] of the said William T. Lewis…fifty acres, lying in White County, in the Third District…" Dated March 1, 1815. 15 1/8" H x 13" W. 2nd item: Land […]

Sam Houston and James Buchanan signed letter and two prints. 1st item: Tennessee Congressman Sam Houston signed letter addressed to John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C, dated May 15, 1824, also signed by PA Congressman James Buchanan, and by six other congressmen including John W. Taylor, Isham Talbot, Joseph Hemphill, Samuel Breck, Joseph […]

Presidential appointment document signed by both President James K. Polk and Secretary of State James Buchanan (later the 15th U. S. President), conferring the position of Recorder of Land Titles in the State of Missouri to Adolphe Reynard, dated January 3, 1848 with seal. Polk signature lower right and Buchanan signature mid lower margin. Housed […]

Two (2) President Andrew Johnson War Commission Documents. 1st item: Military appointment commission document with steel engraved stamp signature for President Andrew Johnson, hand signed by Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, conferring the rank of Commander in the Navy to John G. Walker, dated July 26, 1866 with red seal. "Registered No. Forty Three. […]