1st item: Pre-statehood legal document relating to Nashville and Davidson County, concerning a 1793 court case, Robert Nelson vs. Josiah Love, involving the sale of an enslaved man named Bob, dated 1794. 6 1/2" x 7 3/4" W. 2nd item: Bill of sale concerning an enslaved man named Jerry, sold by the Memphis-based slave trading […]

1st item: Russellville, TN (Hawkins County) handwritten bill of sale for a male slave named Henry for two hundred dollars between Russell Riggs and Samuel Long, dated 1846. Document reads: "For and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to Mr. in hand paid I have this day sold to Samuel Long my […]

1st item: Handwritten slave bill of sale between John Gibson and Thomas Whitsed for a nine-year-old girl named Sarah for two hundred twenty-five dollars, dated February 13, 1841. 2nd item: Handwritten slave bill of sale between R. H. Armstrong and Albert Sullenbarger on behalf of Eliza Brewster for an eleven-year-old girl named Ann for eight […]

5 East Tennessee Mexican War related Letters, 2 U.S. pension forms & 1878 Congressional Record, 9 total items. 1st item: A handwritten copy of Special Order #63 discharge letter dated April 4, 1847, by command of Major General Scott, that grants an honorable discharge to Lt. C. C. Smith due to ill health, received on […]

1st – 3rd items: Three (3) State of TN land grants signed by Governor William Carroll (1788 – 1844) who served as the fifth Governor of TN twice, from 1821 to 1827 and again from 1829 to 1835. One grant awards Edward C Watson and his heirs six hundred acres in Davidson County, dated July […]

1st item: 18th-century North Carolina document granting John Coulter 400 acres of land in Hawkins County, Tennessee (then North Carolina) along the south bank of the Holston River for the price of fifty shillings, signed twice by North Carolina Governor Alexander Martin (1740-1807), 1791. It is accompanied by a map of the property surveyed in […]

1st item: Summons issued to George Nevel to testify on behalf of the plaintiff Joseph Lea in the case of Lea vs. David Robertson, dated July 1796, the month after Tennessee was admitted as a state, and signed by County Clerk Charles McClung. On a pre-statehood form referring to Tennessee as "the Territory south of […]

1st item: Archibald Roane (1759/60-1819), second Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1801 to 1803, and William Cocke (1748-1828) signed pre-statehood Knox county court document, written in regard to a land dispute between Jacob Vanhooser and Amos Byrd/Bird, dated 1794 and 1795. Signed "Wm. Cocke, attn," and three times en verso, "A. Roane." 13 1/4" H […]

1st item: President John Tyler (1790 – 1862) secretarial signed land grant dated June 28, 1842 granting the Chickasaw Indians one section of land located in "section thirty six, in Township Nine, of Range Five, West, containing six hundred and fifty-two acres and twelve hundredth of an acre, in the District of Lands subject to […]

Four (4) Presidential land certificates, secretarial signed for James K. Polk, Martin Van Buren, Franklin Pierce, and Millard Fillmore, granting land in Fayette, Missouri to John D. Miller and Wyatt Embry. 1st item: President Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (1850-1853), secretarial-signed land document issued in favor of John D. Miller of Montineau […]