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| '''Native American.''' The '''Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians''' had nearly all been exiled from the state by 1839. For further information on the tribes and their records in Tennessee, see [[Indians of Tennessee|Indians of Tennessee]]. | | '''Native American.''' The '''Chickasaw and Cherokee Indians''' had nearly all been exiled from the state by 1839. For further information on the tribes and their records in Tennessee, see [[Indians of Tennessee|Indians of Tennessee]]. |
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| === Migrants from the Eastern United States ===
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| In his well researched article "The Tennessee Constitution of 1796: A Product of the Old West" (1943),<ref name="barnhart" /> John D. Barnhart concluded that because of better road access, the largest percentage of East Tennessee pioneers had come to the area from Virginia. This, he believes changed over time. To reach this conclusion, he did a statistical analysis of the origins of Tennessee Constitution delegates and places of enlistment for Revolutionary War pensioners.
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| ''Origins of Tennessee Constitution Delegates (1796)''
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| | Virginia
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| ''Revolutionary War Tennessee Pensioners (1818)''
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| ''Revolutionary War Tennessee Pensioners (1832)''
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| Barnhart concludes that these numbers reveal that the earliest settlers (there by 1818) had come principally from Virginia, while between 1818 and 1832, once road access improved, a larger influx of North Carolina migrants settled in Tennessee.<ref name="barnhart">John D. Barnhart, “The Tennessee Constitution of 1796: A Product of the Old West,” ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 4 (Nov. 1943): 532-548. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2197663 JSTOR] ($).</ref>
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| This early history may have influenced many of our ancestors to venture out to this newly opening area of settlement:
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| *Smith, Daniel. ''A Short Description of the State of Tennessee: Lately Called the Territory of the United States, South of the River Ohio; to Accompany and Explain a Map of that Country''. Philadelphia: Printer for Mathew Carey by Lang and Ustick, 1796. Digital version at [http://www.archive.org/details/shortdescription00smit Internet Archive].
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| How did your ancestor find the correct destination out West? Quite possibly they had a copy of Brown's book:
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| *Brown, Samuel R. ''The Western Gazetteer or Emigrant's Directory, Containing a Geographical Description of the Western States and Territories, viz. The States of Kentucky, Indiana, Louisiana, Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi: and the Territories of Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Michigan, and North-Western''. Auburn, N.Y.: H.C. Southwick, 1817. Digital versions at [http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/navigate.pl?lincoln.13 NIU Library Digitization Projects] and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?akid=k160710&cpn=pfmxk160710&ix=cdusaus0358_westerngazetteer World Vital Records] ($).
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| ==Immigration Records== | | ==Immigration Records== |