Washington County, Tennessee Superior Court Minutes, 1791-1804.

By: Work Progress Administration, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2016, 164 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-879-X.

Washington County was created in 1777 from part of Wilkes and Burke Counties, North Carolina. It is the oldest county in the state and from it all of the other counties in Tennessee were carved out. Most of these early settlers were from North Carolina and Virginia.