The booklet opens with the Delaware Indians prior to 1818. White Americans quickly replaced the natives. Germanic people arrived during the mid-nineteenth century. African American indentured servants and free blacks migrated to Indianapolis. After the Civil War, southern blacks poured into the city. Fleeing war and political unrest, thousands of eastern and southern Europeans came to Indianapolis. Anti-immigration laws slowed immigration until World War II. Afterward, the city welcomed students and professionals from Asia and the Middle East and refugees from war-torn countries such as Vietnam and poor countries such as Mexico. Today, immigrants make Indianapolis more diverse and culturally rich than ever before.

Given in memory of Frances Harriett James Kimbrough by F.G. Middlebrook.

"The following pages contain records of apprenticeships in the counties of East Tennessee from the earliest surviving records until the practice became uncommon, usually the late 1870's"--Introduction.

Transcription of the original schedules, with detail on sex and age groups, and a single area-wide index by household head. The present work contains the names of about 31,000 heads of households residing in the 24 counties of Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Fentress, Grainger, Greene, Hamilton, Hawkins, Jefferson, Knox, Marion, McMinn, Monroe, Morgan, Overton, Rhea, Roane, Sevier, Sullivan, and Washington. The area occupied by these 24 counties now includes, in addition to the original 24, the counties of Bradley, Cumberland, Hamblen, Hancock, Johnson, Loudon, Meigs, Pickett, Polk, Scott, Sequatchie, Unicoi, and Union.