Washington County, Tennessee Wills, 1777-1872.

By: Golden F. Burgner, Pub. 1983, Reprinted 2012,162 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN # 0-89308-285-6.

Washington county was formed in 1777 from part of Wilkes & Burke counties, North Carolina, and included all of the present state of Tennessee. 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, Virginia.