Tennessee

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Counties • Links to State ResourcesBackground

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The Territory South of the Ohio River, formerly part of North Carolina and sometimes known as the Southwest Territory, was created in 1790. It was admitted as the State of Tennessee on June 1, 1796. Both Territory and State had generally the same boundaries as the present State, except that because of erroneous surveys much of the Tennessee-Kentucky boundary was in dispute for some time; it was not finally resurveyed until 1859. Details of the Tennessee-Virginia boundary were not settled until 1901.

Federal Census Summary

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Census coverage in 1790 and 1800 was limited to the northeastern part of Tennessee and the region around Nashville, and coverage did not include the whole State until 1830. The 1790 census of the Southwest Territory actually began at the end of July 1791.

1790: 35,691	1800: 105,602	1810: 261,727	1820: 422,823	1830: 681,904	1840: 829,210	1850: 1,002,717	1860: 1,109,801
1870: 1,258,520	1880: 1,542,359	1890: 1,767,518	1900: 2,020,616	1910: 2,184,789	1920: 2,337,885	1930: 2,616,556	1940: 2,915,841
1950: 3,291,718	1960: 3,567,089	1970: 3,923,687	1980: 4,591,120	1990: 4,877,185	2000: 5,689,283

Counties
Anderson Bedford Benton Bledsoe Blount Bradley Campbell Cannon Carroll Carter Cheatham Chester Claiborne Clay Cocke Coffee Crockett Cumberland Davidson Decatur DeKalb Dickson Dyer	Fayette Fentress Franklin Gibson Giles Grainger Greene Grundy Hamblen Hamilton Hancock Hardeman Hardin Hawkins Haywood Henderson Henry Hickman Houston Humphreys Jackson James Jefferson Johnson	Knox Lake Lauderdale Lawrence Lewis Lincoln Loudon McMinn McNairy Macon Madison Marion Marshall Maury Meigs Monroe Montgomery Moore Morgan Obion Overton Perry Pickett Polk	Putnam Rhea Roane Robertson Rutherford Scott Sequatchie Sevier Shelby Smith Stewart Sullivan Sumner Tipton Trousdale Unicoi Union Van Buren Warren Washington Wayne Weakley White Williamson Wilson

State Resources

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Tennessee State Library and Archives - A Resource for Tennessee History, Genealogy, and Records
... building for the Tennessee State Library and Archives ... history of the State ...
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/index.htm (more from www.tennessee.gov)

Tennessee State Library and Archives: History and Genealogy > Military > Tennessee World War I Veter
... stored by the Tennessee State Library and Archives ... County Updated April 8, 2008 Tennessee
http://www.tennessee.gov/tsla/history/military/ww1intro.htm (more from www.tennessee.gov)

Tennessee State Library and Archives - A Resource for Tennessee History, Genealogy, and Records
... building for the Tennessee State Library and Archives ... history of the State ...
http://state.tn.us/tsla/index.htm (more from state.tn.us)

Tennessee State Library and Archives: Electronic Resources : Contact Us
Tennessee State Library and Archives ... 542 North Lindell Street Martin, Tennessee 38237 Phone: 731.587.2347 ... Thayer     Updated November 21, 2008 ...
http://state.tn.us/tsla/contacts.htm (more from state.tn.us)

TNGenNet, TNGenWeb Project, Inc.Tennessee Genealogy at its best. Home Page.
... county in the state of Tennessee. We, the volunteers ... registered in the State ...
http://www.tngenweb.org/

USGenWeb TNGenweb Archives
... go to Archive Records . Tennessee USGenWeb Genealogy Tennessee Tombstone Transcription Project Tennessee USGenWeb Penny Postcards Project Tennessee ... ...
http://www.usgwarchives.org/tn/tnfiles.htm

Genealogy Trails - Finding Ancestors wherever their trails led
... informed of our state and county website ... the Trail.... Our Website Updates State Sites Available for Hosting ...
http://genealogytrails.com/

Washington County Tennessee Deeds
... K Feb 2005 Bob Keyes State of North Carolina ... K Feb 2005 Bob Keyes State of North Carolina ...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/tn/washington/deeds.html

State Projects Page
State Projects Page State Tombstone Transcription Projects Alabama Carolyn ... charge of your state to arrange sending ...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/registry.html

Livingston County MI - Historical & Genealogical Project
... help against a state coordinator that failed to ... Vital Records for State of Michigan Library ...
http://www.livgenmi.com/

 

References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.