Joseph Bates Documents
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 an enslaved woman of forty named Tiller and a boy of 10 named Thomas to Robert Mitchell. The second, dated August 4, 1845 concerns land sold to Bates by Martin Cox, detailing the exact boundaries of the tract.
Dates
- 1838 November 5, 1845 August 4
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Extent
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 an enslaved woman of forty named Tiller and a boy of 10 named Thomas to Robert Mitchell. The second, dated August 4, 1845 concerns land sold to Bates by Martin Cox, detailing the exact boundaries of the tract.
Biographical/Historical Note
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.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Acquisition Note
Collection was purchased by Special Collections on February 16, 2007.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository