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The Tennessee State Penitentiary opened in 1831. Prior to that offenders were held in county jails. Surviving records of the Penitentiary are housed at the State Library and Archives as Record Group 25. The following list of inmates is found in ledger volume 86 of those records. The ledger also includes the date received in the Penitentiary, the prisoner's state of birth, and the date discharged. Copies of entries are available upon request by mail (listed under "State Penitentiary and Record Groups").
The detailed abstracts from these records were compiled in one book by Chuck Sherrill, Tennessee Convicts, Early Records of the State Penitentiary (Mt. Juliet, Tennessee: privately published, 1997).
The index is online. http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/inmate1.htm
BRANDSTUTTER, Frederick, aged 28, petit larceny
DOANE, Joseph, aged 18, grand larceny
JONES, James, aged 17, horse stealing
LUCAS, Garland G., aged 42, grand larceny
MOORE, John, aged 45, grand larceny
PERDEW, John, aged 20, petit larceny
PHILLIPS, George, aged 33, petit larceny
SHERROD, Thomas, aged 23, passing counterfeit
SURBER, Samuel, aged 39, assult with intent to kill
THOMAS, George, age n/a, grand larceny
THOMAS, Robert, age n/a, grand larceny
Chuck Sherril has published a second volume of these records covering the time period from 1850 to 1870. For more information on this book please see this web page: www.angelfire.com/tn3/sherrill
Last updated on 08 September 2003
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