This collection houses three legal documents created in Roane County, Tennessee. The first document is a marriage license for Hiram Babb and Malinda Griffis dated October 28, 1847; the second appoints J. J. Scarbraugh as a notary public on October 14, 1897 and is signed by then-governor of Tennessee Robert L. Taylor; the third is a bond posted by David Ferguson on November 15, 1848 regarding the marriage of Samuel D. Elkins and Martha Jane Wilson.

This collection contains a photocopy of the marriage bond of Samuel Czar Carrick to Elizabeth Moore on September 21, 1779.

This document, dated November 2, 1792 and issued in the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, binds George Nolin and Isaac Denton to William Blount (then governor) for the sum of 600 pounds, void on the condition that there be no lawful objection why William Pugh and Elizabeth Denton may not be joined together as man and wife, in the holy estate of matrimony. The bond is signed by Denton, Nolin, and John Sevier Jr.