Sawyers and McBee Family Papers (Gift of Charles R. McBee and Betty McBee Sloan).
Scope and Contents
Sawyers and McBee Family Papers, gift of Charles R. McBee & Betty McBee Sloan. Collection contains papers of William Sawyers, Justice of the Peace, Knox County. Papers (1785-1899) mention slaves by name, bills of sale & judgments re: slaves, land transfers & claims, deeds, Joseph White will, Bible Society circulars, the Steamboat Knoxville, Thomas Graham Creek War certificate of service, Strawberry Plains, Grainger, Blount, and Madison Counties, Civil War letters and letters written from Civil War camp, judgments & related papers, Blaines Cross Roads, Improvement of the Tennessee River, settlements & debts paid by barter, guardianships, William Sawyers' Mill, McBee's Ferry, William Priestley's Mill, Washington Church, Mount Vernon Schoolhouse, Knox County election results, tax lists, the Cumberland Camp, Col. John Sawyers, Rachel Sawyers, Nancy E. Sawyers, Stokely Donelson, Ganum McBee, Justice James Park, and Col. Ramsey. Also, McBee, Sawyers, Cassaday, Crawford, Cobb, Hixon, Hashbarger, Forgey, Peterson, Whitner and Mynatt family members and estates. Many other families and estates are also included. A finding aid and a separation list are available.
Dates
- 1785-1899
Conditions Governing Access
Material is available for research. Prior arrangement MUST be made by contacting the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection at mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
Extent
3 boxes
General
See also: MSC 0531 (Sawyers/McBee Papers) and MSC 0774 (Sawyers McBee Legal Papers) Loose, original pages from a Family Bible (folder 22) were photocopied for the genealogy VF (Cassaday, McBee & Sawyers). (McClung does not own the Family Bible). Gift included 6 original marriage licenses that were transferred to the Knox Co. Archives on Dec. 13, 2007 (after appraisal). Photocopies are in folder 148.
- Bible Society circulars Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Blaines Cross Roads Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Blount County (Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Creek War certificate of service Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Donelson, Stockley, -approximately 1804 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Graham, Thomas Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Grainger County (Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Joseph White will Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Knox County Cumberland Camp Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Madison Counties (Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- McBee Family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- McBee's Ferry Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mills Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Vernon Schoolhouse Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- North Carolina land grant Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sawyers Family Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Slaves Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Steamboats Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Strawberry Plains (Tenn.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tennessee History Civil War, 1861-1865 Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Tennessee River Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Washington Church Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- William Priestley's Mill Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Sawyers and McBee Family Papers (Gift of Charles R. McBee and Betty McBee Sloan).
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection Repository
601 S Gay Street
3rd floor
Knoxville Tennessee 37902 United States
865.215.8814
mcclung-archivist@knoxlib.org
