This collection contains documents from 1810 to 1917 concerning the Trotter family of Sevier County, Tennessee. These materials include ledgers, legal documents, letters, notes, diagrams, deeds, a song Isaac Trotter wrote, an assortment of Confederate Currency, a personal notebook, a program for the Delphian Literacy Society, and a card advertising John Halloway’s candidacy for judge. These items contain, among others, the signatures of William B. Carroll, Andrew Johnson and Isham B. Harris.

The oldest document, a diagram of 144.5 acres in Sevier County, is the document that John Trotter submitted his survey on for the land that would become the Trotter homestead. The deeds include a deal of the expansion and selling of land in addition to the homestead, and legal documents that also settle land disputes. Personal notes and ledgers outline the transaction of money by the Trotter Family, mostly Isaac, with various entities and people in the region. At the time of the Civil War, notes are contained that list the able bodied men, aged 18-30 in that region of Sevier County, signed by Isaac Trotter. Also included are several examples of Confederate paper money of different states and denominations. A personal notebook includes personal notes and keeps track of expenditures and money collected during the 1870s.