This book is a transcription from the 1880 Census schedules of Lincoln County, Tennessee, and has been arranged alphabetically by head-of- household. The names and ages of all individuals living in the household are included, along with the page number of the original census schedule. There are approximately 28,000 individual names listed. Paperback, (1998), repr. 2012, Indexed, 153 pp.

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This middle Tennessee County was formed in 1809 out of Indian Lands. From the year 1799, with the formation of Williamson County, Tennessee, the most western third of what was to become Lincoln County in 1809, was then a part of Williamson County, and so until 1807 the eastern two thirds of the area was a part of Rutherford County. And from Dec. 3, 1807 until Nov. 14, 1809, Lincoln was the southern half of Bedford County. These records are a potpourri of early miscellaneous loose court records which have never been published nor microfilmed by the State of Tennessee. These records contain: Guardianship reports and settlements, first land deeds called "The Clerks List," which lists many of the early Grantees and Grantors not recorded in the regular deed index. Also included are early Tax lists before 1830 giving the names of taxable, acreage of deeded and Granted land plus location of same. These miscellaneous records cover the time period of 1809 to about 1840. For the person with lost ancestors in Lincoln county, these records may provide the answer to long sought after forbears.

Report provides the total population for each of the nation's 3,141 counties from 1990 back to the first census in which the county appeared.

Bethuel Riggs was born in 1757 in Mendham Township, Morris County, New Jersey. He married Nancy Lee in about 1779 in WIlkes County, North Carolina. They had nine children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and Texas.