Cocke County TNGenWeb
County Records
BIBLE RECORDS
CEMETERY
RECORDS
CENSUS RECORDS
CHURCH RECORDS
- History
of
the Synod of TN
Deaths Mentioned
from 1817 to 1887
- Literary
Institutions of the TN Synod
From History of the Synod of Tennessee 1890 with Institutions, Surnames
and Histories
- Big
Pigeon
Baptist Church Minutes - very early records UPDATED!
- Methodist
Episcopal Church South - 1851 to 1894 UPDATED!
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church - 1838
to 1860 UPDATED!
- Slate Creek Baptist Church - 1812 to
1876 NEW!
- Union
Baptist Church of Christ Minutes - 1833 to 1877 UPDATED!
COURT RECORDS
DEATH RECORDS
LAND
DEEDS AND SURVEYS
- Early
Settlers of the old 12th District - 1824 - 1831
- District
12 Map - submitted by Bruce Price
- Early East
Tennessee Land Grants - submitted by Bruce Price. Notes
from Bruce: Land
Grants - These are state records, not stored at the
courthouse. The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA)
has these and has microfilmed them. Cocke County falls in the "East
Tennessee Land Grant" group of records. (All Tennesse land grants are
indexed in a single series. TSLA has this series. County Archives in
Tennessee may have a set; I know that the Lawrence County Archives has
a set. And you can borrow them through a Mormon
Family History Library or through inter-library loan.) Grants for
counties were often
done in groups, so if you find one for your county, check the pages
before and after.
Land entries - These were done at the county level and eventually led
to land grants at the state level. There was a book from the mid-1820's
into early 1830's that survived. It was copied in the late 1800s. That
copy
is on microfilm and has been transcribed verbatim by the Sevier County
Public Library and is available for purchase.
Land grants were issued by: 1. the State of North Carolina (1777-1784);
2. the Watauga Association (1769-1777); 3. The State of Franklin
(1784-1788); 4. the State of Tennessee (1796-). From
1790 to 1796 land was considered to be in The Territory of the United
States, South of the Ohio. (Many thanks to Jim Rader and Bruce Price
for
this information).
- Deeds: Notes from contributor Bruce Price - "Lots
of old
deeds were recorded late or re-recorded after the fire, so all deed
books contain older deeds. All the early deeds were destroyed in the
courthouse fire of 12/30/1876 except old deed book 17, which a lawyer
had taken home to use on a case. Old 17 (which I call Deed
Book #0, as it comes before #1) has deeds from the mid-1860's.
Deed book #1 began right after the fire.
But many people brought in their deeds to be
re-registered. Also, keep in mind that it was not convenient
for our ancestors to get to Newport to register their deeds.
They often waited years, even decades, to register the deeds. And when
they sold their land, they often re-recorded the old deed to prove they
had the right to sell the land. So, some of the later deed
books have deeds from prior decades. As I am abstracting the deeds, I
have seen deeds from as far back as the 1830's and I often see
references to land grants."
Listings here include only those whose abstracted versions have
definite genealogical value.
Contact Bruce
for further information. Deed books 1-10 go from 1807 to 1827, books
11-19 are from 1876 to at least 1900.
- County
Deed Book Index, 1865 - 1867 - from Microfilm #36
- Index
to Surveys, 1845 - 1900 - includes names, acreage, dates
- Deed
from Rhoda Huff to W.E. Banks, 1920
- Kyker
Deeds NEW!
- Denton
Deeds NEW!
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