CENSUS RECORDS 

• Census on microfilm for Sullivan County:  1830-1880, 1900-1930
• State-wide census index:  1830-1880
• State-wide census index on microfilm  (Soundex):  1880,  1900-1930
• Sullivan County census records in book form:  1830,  1840,  1850,  1860,  *1870,  *1880

SELECTED COUNTY HISTORIES

• Adventure II, Flatboats 'Round the Bend, and Journey II, Footsteps of the Past  (Aiken,  1979)
• Between the States : Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia During the Civil War (Phillips, 1997)
• *Early Years on Bays Mountains in Sullivan County, Tennessee (Spoden, 1975)
• *Entering a New Century : Sullivan County, Tennessee, 1895-1905 (Groseclose & Marshall, 1986)
• Families and History of Sullivan County, Tennessee [Vol. 1 1779-1992; Vol. 2. 1779-2006 ] (Holston Territory Genealogical Society, 1992)
• Foundations of Faith in Sullivan, 1777-1935 (Sullivan County Historical Society, 1986)
• Historic Sites of Sullivan County (Sullivan County Historical Commission and Associates, 1976)
• *Historic Sullivan : A History of Sullivan County, Tennessee, With Brief Biographies of the Makers of History (Taylor, 1988)
• Memoirs of Homer H. Smith (Smith, 1992)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee (Porter, 2003)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee : Pictorial History (Sullivan County Genealogical Society, 1998)

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

PUBLISHED LOCAL RECORDS

• 1830 and 1840 Sullivan County, Tennessee Censuses (Hunt, 1997)
• 1850 Census, Sullivan County, Tennessee (Hunt, 1997)
• 1860 Sullivan County, Tennessee Census (Hunt, 1997)
• *1870 United States Federal Census, Sullivan County, Tennessee (Holston Territory Genealogical Society, 1994)
• *1880 Census, Sullivan County, Tennessee (Sistler, 1992)
• Carter County, Tennessee, Greene County, Tennessee, Hawkins County, Tennessee, Johnson County, Tennessee, Sullivan County, Tennessee, [1891 enumeration of male voters] (Reed, 1992)
• Cemetery Records of Sullivan County, Tennessee [2 vols.] (Burow, 2007)
• First Land Owners of Sullivan County, Tennessee (Vineyard, 1974)
• Marriage Records of Sullivan County, Blountville, Tennessee, Unbound Records, 1861-1870 (WPA, 1937)
• New Bethel Sesquicentennial, 1782-1932; Comprising an Account of the Sequicentennial of the New Bethel Presbyterian Church, Sullivan County (New Bethel Presbyterian Church, 1932)
• Rhea Papers from the Collection of Mrs. Charles R. Hyde of Chattanooga, Tenn. [court records] (WPA, 1939)
• *Sullivan County, Tenn., deeds [vol. 1 1775-1789; vol. 2 1787-1793; vol. 3 1793-1795] (Willis & Sellers, 1998-)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee Administrators' Bonds and Letters, March 1875 - July 1904 (Hunt, 1997)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee Cemeteries (Sherman, 1991)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee, Death records [vol. 1 1908-1918; vol. 2 1919-1925] (Nikazy, 1994-)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee, Deed book [vols. 1-2 1775-1790 & 1784-1796;  vols. 3 & 4 1795-1802 & 1802-1807;  vol. 5 1807-1808, 1834-1838; vol. 6 1809-1815] (WPA, 1936-1938)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee, Deed Book 1-2, 1775-1795 : abstracted from the original records (Edwards, 1994)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee, Deed Book 8, 1819-1820; 1837-1840 (Hayes, 1995)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee Deed Book 10, 1824-1835 (Hayes, 1995)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee, Marriage Bonds, 1880-1899 (Hunt, 1997)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1863-1893 (Hunt, 1997)
• *Sullivan County, Tennessee, Marriage Volume 1, 1899-1906 (Hunt, 1999)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee, New Bethel Presbyterian Church Records (WPA, 19??)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee, Tombstone Records (WPA, 1936)
• Sullivan County, Tennessee, Will Book, no. 1, 1830-1870 (WPA, 1938)
• Tennessee Historical Records from Indian & Revolutionary Times up to 1883, Consisting of History of Indians, Revolutionary soldiers, War of 1812  [2 vols.] (McGhee, 1956?)

LOCAL RECORDS ON MICROFILM 

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

Earliest records include:

• marriages from 1863
• wills from 1838
• deed index from 1781
• chancery court minutes from 1852
• county court minutes from 1861
• circuit court minutes from 1879
• tax books from 1877

The following reels are available on interlibrary loan:

• *Deed Index -- 1781-1930 (A-E)  (#28, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1781-1930 (F-Mc)  (#29, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1781-1930 (M-S)  (#30, 1 reel)
• *Deed Index -- 1781-1930 (T-Z)  (#31, 1 reel)
• *Wills -- 1838-1915  (#27, 1 reel)
• *WPA Records, Sullivan County  (Record Group #107, Roll 80,  1 reel)    Roll includes Deed Books  (1775-1815 & 1834-1838),  Will Book #1 (1830-1870),  Marriage Records [unbound] (1861-1870),  New Bethal Church Minutes (undated),  New Bethal Presbyterian Church Records (undated),  Tombstone Records (undated), and Rhea Papers from the Collection of Mrs. Charles R. Hyde of Chattanooga, TN (undated). 

NEWSPAPERS ON MICROFILM 

Newspapers were published in Blountville,  Bluff City,  Bristol,  Kingsport and Union.  Scattered early issues are available from 1857, and a complete run begins in 1944.  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.

• *Clayton Collection, 1836-1884  (Microfilm Manuscript #1297, 1 reel)
• *Greene, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington Counties Cemetery Records, ca. 1780-1960  (Microfilm Manuscript #320, 1 reel)
• *John Rhea Letters, 1805-1831  (Microfilm Manuscript #49, 1 reel)
• *Margaret Travis Gray Genealogical Materials: Gray - King Lineage, 1886-1994   (Microfilm Manuscript #1776, 1 reel)
• *N. J. Phillips Scrapbooks, 1887-1909  (Microfilm Manuscript #879, 1 reel)
• *Rhea Family Papers, 1769-1859  (Microfilm Manuscript #792, 1 reel)

*  Indicates this title may be borrowed on Interlibrary Loan.