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This publication is an abstract of the six earliest Stewart County, Tennessee Circuit Court Minute Books, covering the period 1821-1850. The Circuit Court met every 6 months at the courthouse in Dover from 1809-1836, and every 4 months beginning in 1836, and was presided over by a Judge from one of the Judicial Circuits of the state. The Court heard law cases where guilt or innocence had to be determined, including cases of debt, divorce, assault, theft, gambling, fighting, land disputes and contested wills, to name a few. Petitions for citizenship are also found in Circuit Court Minutes. The court, presided over by a Circuit Judge, heard both Civil cases (disputes between private citizens) and State cases (cases in which a crime had been committed, and the State was the plaintiff in the case). The steps taken in these cases were summarized by the court clerk into Minute Books. The details of these cases, including summons, pleadings and depositions, were contained in the Loose Papers of the case, most of which survive and are held at the Stewart County Archives in Dover.
This publication provides a complete collection of Hawkins County, Tennessee court records, with a full-name index which refers to the page number in the original document and an index to Suits at Law & In Equity, spanning the years 1810-1821. "The WPA Records are, for the most part, carbon copies of the original that was typed on onion skin paper during the Depression. Since these records were typed on poor machines by people who did not type in some cases and at the same time, they were read by persons not always sure of the older handwritten materials, the results are often less than perfect. ... Sometimes there are water stains and burned edges around the paper."