CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Haywood County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1830-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Haywood County census records in book form:  *1850,  *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• *Haywood County, Tennessee (Norris, 2000)
• Haywood County, Tennessee, Pictorial (Jackson, 1998)
• *Heart of the Tennessee Delta: A Historical Guidebook to Haywood County (Brownsville-Haywood County Bicentennial Committee., 1996)
• *History of Haywood County, Tennessee, 1989 (Brownsville-Haywood County Historical Society, 1989)
• *History of Tennessee From the Earliest Time to the Present : Together With a Historical and a Biographical Sketch of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood and Crockett (Goodspeed, 1978)
• Legacy of Tamar : Courage and Faith in an African American Family (Springfield, 2000)
• Lifting the Veil : A Political History of Struggles for Emancipation (Couto, 1993)

Additional county and community histories can be found at the Bibliography of Tennessee Local History Sources:  Haywood County.  The items in the bibliography may not all be available at TSLA.

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• *1836 Haywood County, Tennessee, Civil Districts & Tax List (Douthat, 2003)
• *1880 Census Haywood County, Tennessee (Sistler, 2001)
• Bradford Family Record (WPA, 1939)
• Crockett (Haywood) County, Tn Deeds, 1785-1872 Mayo, 1985)
• Genealogical Quandary : Will Book D, 1845-1852, Haywood County, Tennessee (Smith, 2003)
• Haywood, Lauderdale, Tipton County Directory (1957)
• Haywood County, Tennessee, Chancery Court Records, 1808-1885 : Including Divorces, 1860-1936 : An Inventory Of Loose Records in the Haywood County Courthouse (Genealogical Society Of Utah., 1997)
• Haywood County Tennessee Court Minutes, 1823-1830 (WPA, 1936)
• Haywood County Tennessee Court Minutes, 1826-30 (WPA, 1940)
• Haywood County Tennessee Court Minutes, 1831 (WPA, 1938)
• Haywood County Tennessee Court Minutes, Journal C, 1834-40 (WPA, 19??)
• Haywood County Tennessee Court Minutes, 1837-1840 (WPA, 1941)
• *Haywood County, Tennessee Deed Book  [Vol. A-B 1823-1831] (Crumpton, 2003)
• *Haywood County, Tennessee Deed Book  [Vol. C  1832-1833] (Crumpton, 2003)
• Haywood County Tennessee Deed Book A, 1823-1830 (WPA, 1940)
• Haywood County Tennessee, Directory of Brownsville, Tennessee, 1872-1873 (WPA, 1938)
• Haywood County Tennessee Marriage Docket, 1859-1866 (WPA, 1938)
• Haywood County, Tennessee Marriage Records : Books 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8, 1859-1878 (Fischer, 1987)
• Haywood County Tennessee Will Book No. 1, 1826-1839 (WPA, 1937)
• *Seventh Census of the United States, 1850: Haywood County, Tennessee Free Population Schedules (Carpenter, 1970)
• Tombstone Inscriptions From Black Cemeteries in Haywood County, Tennessee (Smith, 1998)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

An inventory of microfilmed Haywood County records is available on our web site.  Individual reels of microfilm may also be purchased.  

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1859
• wills from 1826
• deed index from 1823
• chancery court minutes from 1842
• county court minutes from 1823
• circuit court minutes from 1840
• tax books from 1834

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Deed Index -- 1826-1881  (#48, 1 reel)
• *Inventories -- Guardian, Administrators' & Executors' Settlements -- 1852-1866  (#24, 1 reel)
• *Marriage License & Bonds -- 1859-1868  (#27, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1826-1841  (#46, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1841-1844; 1852-1918  (#47, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Haywood County (Record Group #107, Roll 34,  1 reel)    Roll includes County Court Minutes (1823-1831 & 1837-1840),  Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Journal C (1834-1840),  Deed Book A (1823-1830),  Will Book 1  (1826-1839),  Marriage Dockett (1859-1866),  Brownsville City Directory (1872-1873)  and Bradford Family Record (undated).

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Brownsville.  Scattered early issues are available from 1838, and a complete run begins in 1936. Microfilms are loaned to Tennessee libraries.  Individual reels may also be purchased.  An Inventory of Newspapers on Microfilm at TSLA is available on our web site.

• *Brownsville Station Methodist Episcopal Church, South Records. Haywood County, 1824-1957  (Microfilm Manuscript #527, 1 reel)
• *Harmony Baptist Church Records. Haywood County, 1837-1973  (Microfilm Manuscript #533, 1 reel)
• Ragland family papers, 1861-1899

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.