Hardin County, Tennessee Records, 1820-1860.

By: Thomas A Hays, Pub. 1985, Reprinted 2017, 272 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-562-6.

Hardin county was formed in 1819.  The entries found in this book cover the appointments of the administrators and guardians; indentured applications; reports of inquests juries; releasements, removals, and insolvencies from the tax lists; wills; inventory of administrator and guardian settlements', the requests of free blacks; survey of occupant claims; petition of widows’ dowers; acknowledgement of bills of sale for slaves; certificates of deeds of conveyance; and pertinent records.