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This project is concerned with tracing the origins of the families that settled in the Mountain District of Middle Tennessee (West Middle TN), and such includes the following counties: Franklin, Warren, Marion, Bledsoe, White, Overton, Fentress and Jackson Counties. History of the Mountain District: http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm "The 3rd District closed in 1827, and in that year, the Assembly created the “Mountain District.” This District was to superimpose over parts of older districts, mainly over the 3 rd District. It seems that the Mountain District became more of an administration district rather than a Surveyors’ District. The State needed to dispose of the surplus land on the Cumberland Plateau and to enter that land on the tax rolls. ---“The register of the land office...shall keep his office in the town of Sparta, in the county of White, and shall be denominated ‘the Register of the Mountain District. ’...” Additionally; “...All land entered or hereafter to be entered in the counties of Franklin, Warren, Marion, Bledsoe, White, Overton, Fentress and Jackson, and the plats and certificates not returned to any other registers office in this State on or before the first day of January next shall be returned to the ‘register’s office of the mountain district,’ ....” 70 Note that parts or all of some of the above mentioned counties may fall into other older districts. There is no mention, and would have been no need of re-surveying the Mountain District. There is no extant map of the Mountain District. The 1827 bounds of the mentioned counties create the bounds of the Mountain District. TSLA has some litigation records involving land in this district." (TNGenNet)

open to all with any association with the county of Northumberland, England ... this study project will include both Y-DNA and mtDNA testing participants ... more info coming soon ! Surnames listed as being associated with this project are being pulled from the 1851 and 1881 census of this specific area as a guide, and is not completed and or limited to just these ... nor does it imply that everyone that has one of these surnames is associated to this specific area ... more to be added soon !

The NSSAR DNA Beta group is for members whose genealogies include American Revolutionary War ancestors, either patriots or compatriots in the war for American independence. The NSSAR DNA beta group is currently not sanctioned by the national organization of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) or the State of North Carolina Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NCSSAR). Therefore, the submission of your DNA to the group is entirely voluntary and does not constitute direct proof of lineage or you have a membership in SAR or the NCSSAR societies. To learn how to become a member of the SAR, please visit: https://www.sar.org/ RESEARCH RESOURCES FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT SURNAMES: • SAR Patriot Research System - The SAR Patriot Research System (PRS) is a database combination of the previous SAR Patriot Record Index, the SAR Revolutionary War Graves Registry, and information from the SAR Patriot Index CD (2002), plus additional information and updates from various state grave registry databases and patriot biographical sketches submitted to tell the story of our patriot ancestors. Visitors will be directed to an external database site to access the SAR Patriot Research System (https://archive.sar.org/genealogy/patriot-research-system). • DAR Genealogical Research System - Compiled by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, this free collection of genealogical databases contains data for both men and women who provided service to the patriot's cause between 1774 and 1783, including an ancestor database created from verified membership and supplemental applications. Because this index was created from lineages identified and verified by DAR, it does not include every individual who served. The index generally provides birth and death data for each individual, as well as information on spouse, rank, area of service, and the state where the patriot lived or served. For those who did not serve in a military capacity, the type of civil or patriotic service is indicated. Soldiers who received a revolutionary war pension will be noted with the abbreviation "PNSR" ("CPNS" if the soldier's children received the pension or "WPNS" if the soldier's widow received the pension). (https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search/default.cfm) • Index to Revolutionary War Service Records - This four-volume set (Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing Co., 1995) by Virgil White includes abstracts of military service records from the National Archives group 93, including each soldier's name, unit, and rank. A similar index was created by Ancestry, Inc. in 1999 and is available online to subscribers - U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783. Even better, you can search and view the actual Revolutionary War Service Records online at Fold3.com. or https://go.fold3.com/revolutionary-war-service-records • American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) - This large index, sometimes referred to as the Rider Index after its original creator, Fremont Rider, includes the names of people who have appeared in more than 800 published volumes of family histories and other genealogical works. This includes several volumes of published Revolutionary War Records, such as Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, Soldiers, Sailors, 1775-1783, and Muster and Payrolls of the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 from the collection of the NewYork Historical Society. Godfrey Memorial Library in Middletown, Connecticut, published this index and will answer AGBI search requests for a small fee. The AGBI is also available as an online database at the subscription site, Ancestry.com. • Pierce's Register - Originally produced as a government document in 1915 and later published by Genealogical Publishing Company in 1973, this work provides an index to Revolutionary War claim records, including the veteran's name, certificate number, military unit and the amount of the claim. (https://books.google.com/books?id=juPn5mjLa3UC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false) • Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots - The U.S. government places tombstones on the graves of identified Revolutionary War soldiers, and this book by Patricia Law Hatcher (Dallas: Pioneer Heritage Press, 1987-88) provides an alphabetical list of these Revolutionary War soldiers, along with the name and location of the cemetery where they are buried or memorialized. Citation Source: Powell, Kimberly. "Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestor." ThoughtCo, Feb. 11, 2020, thoughtco.com/researching-your-revolutionary-war-ancestor-1422348. OTHER COLLECTIONS: • Thomas M. Owen, comp. Revolutionary Soldiers in Alabama; being a list of names, compiled from authentic sources, of soldiers of the American Revolution, who resided in the state of Alabama. Montgomery, Ala.: Brown Print. Co.,1911. • Adjutant General's Office, Henry P. Johnston. Record of service of Connecticut Men in the I. War of the Revolution, II. War of 1812, III. Mexican War Hartford, Connecticut: Case, Lockwood & Brainard,1889 • Allen D. Chandler. The Revolutionary Records of the State of Georgia. 3 volumes. Atlanta [Georgia: Franklin-Turner Co., 1908] • Alex M. Hitz. Authentic list of all land lottery grants made to veterans of the Revolutionary War by the state of Georgia. Atlanta [Georgia: Secretary of State, 1966] • Harry Wright Newman. Maryland Revolutionary Records. Data obtained from 3,050 pension claims and bounty land applications, including 1,000 marriages of Maryland soldiers and a list of 1,200 proved services of soldiers and patriots of other states. Washington [District of Columbia: H.W. Newman, 1938] • Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. 17 volumes. Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1896-1908 • Isaac Weare Hammond. The state of New Hampshire, rolls of the soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775, to May 1777. Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1885. Isaac Weare Hammond. The State of New Hampshire rolls of the soldiers in the Revolutionary War, May 1777 to 1780. Concord, New Hampshire: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1886. • Adjutant General's Office, William S. Stryker. Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War Trenton, N.J.:Trenton: Wm. T. Nicholson and Co.,1872 • Collections of the New York Historical Society. Muster and Pay Rolls of the War of the Revolution. New York, New York: New York Historical Society, 1916 • New York in the Revolution as Colony and State and volume 2 New York in the Revolution as Colony and State New York Comptroller’s Office. 2 volumes. Albany, New York: J.B. Lyon Co., 1904 • Daughters of the American Revolution. The roster of the Soldiers from North Carolina in the American Revolution. [S.l.: NCDAR, 1932] • Thomas Lynch Montgomery. Pennsylvania Archives. Fifth Series Volumes 2-8. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1906 • Thomas Lynch Montgomery. Pennsylvania Archives. Sixth Series Volumes 1-2. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1906 • John B. Linn and Wm H Egle, ed. Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series. Volumes 10-11,13-15, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : E.K. Meyers, 1876-1890, 1896 • John E. Goodrich comp. and ed. The State of Vermont. Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783 Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company,1904 .