Finding Aid for the Joseph Bates Documents, 1838 November 5, 1845 August 4
MS-3078University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Collection processed by: Will Dewey, June 25, 2007
Finding Aid written by: Will Dewey, June 25, 2007
Encoded by: Will Dewey, June 25, 2007
Summary Information
Joseph Bates Documents
Date/Date Range : 1838 November 5, 1845 August 4
0.1 linear feet
Abstract: This collection consists of two documents recording transactions involving Joseph Bates and witnessed by Overton County clerk John Daugherty. The first document, dated November 5, 1838, records Bates' loaning of slaves to Robert Mitchell; the second, dated August 4, 1845, concerns land sold to Bates by Martin Cox.
MS-3078
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Access and Use
Collection was purchased by Special Collections on February 16, 2007.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of Item], Joseph Bates Documents, MS-3078. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Biography / History
Joseph Bates was born in Washington County, Virginia, on May 6, 1777, to William and Margaret Young Bates. William (1737-1811) was elder in the Ebbing Springs Presbyterian Church and signed the Watauga Petition to the North Carolina Council, which was endorsed by the state in 1776. He also fought at the Battle of King's Mountain on October 7, 1780, along with his father-in-law Robert Young, Sr. and his neighbor Col. William Campbell.
Joseph married Mary King Gentry on January 8, 1798, and the couple settled in Bates Cove, Overton County, Tennessee, before the formation of the county in 1806. They had seven children: William Mitchell, Minerva King, Elizabeth, George W., Rev. Thomas Fletcher, Tennessee Dillard, and Joseph Benson Bates. Joseph served in the First Regiment of the Tennessee Volunteer Militia Infantry in 1813 and was trustee of the Pleasant Forest Academy. Mary died before 1830, but Joseph died April 2, 1849.
Collection Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of two documents recording transactions involving Joseph Bates and witnessed by Overton county clerk John Daugherty. The first document, dated November 5, 1838, records Bates' loaning of slaves to Robert Mitchell, a woman of forty named Tiller and a boy of 10 named Thomas. The second, dated August 4, 1845 concerns land sold to Bates by Martin Cox, detailing the exact boundaries of the tract.
Subject Terms
- Bates, Joseph, 1777-1849.
- Overton County (Tenn.) -- History.
- Slavery -- Tennessee.
- Legal documents -- United States.
Contents List
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Joseph Bates Documents, 1838 November 5, 1845 August 4 Scope Note: This memorandum witnesseth that whereas I Joseph Bates of Overton County, Tennessee have loaned to Robert of White County Tennessee two negro slave of the following description to wit, Tiller a woman about forty years of age and her son Thomas about ten years of age and that he keep them in his possession and control, as loaned properly subject to my order at any time hereafter to be made--
In witness whereof the said Robert L. Mitchell and the said Joseph Bates have hereto set their hands this 5th day of November 1838.
Robt. L. Mitchell
Joseph Bates
State of Tennessee
Overton County
Personally approved before John S. Daugherty Clerk of the County Court for said County Joseph Bates and Robert L. Mitchell. In above with whom I am personally acquainted who acknowledged that they executed the above article as agree upon for the purposes therein contained Given under my hand as office this 6th day of May Nov. 1838.
State of Tennessee
John D. Daugherty, clk.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Article & the certificate are truly registered in my office in liber H pages two hundred sixty nine & seventy In testimony whereof I John Kennedy register for the county of Overton have hereunto set my name & private seal no public official Seal being provided for this office. Done at office on the fifth day of January one thousand Eight hundred & thirty nine
John Kennedy, Register for Overton County.
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