[22]

The Wilderness Road, "from the Cumberland Gap to the settlements of Kentucky"


a. "Kentucky 1796" "The Wilderness Road" MFHN v.IX n.1 January 2001 p.2001-02


    https://www.mcaninch.net/Newsletter/mfn09y01/m09p02w6.htm


b. The Wilderness Road book, by Robert L. Kincaid, pg. 191; orig. pub. 1973,


    Middlesboro, Kentucky, re-pub. 1990, Lincoln Memorial Univ., Harrowgate, Tenn.



[23]

Tennessee's first settlers & soldiers book, compiled by Edward C. McAmis,


pub. St. Leonard, Maryland, E.C. McAmis, copyright 2000


a. (E.C. McAmis ) "My purpose in writing this book is to try to show who the early


    settlers to Greene County, Tennessee actually were & perhaps forever still the myths


    of who they were thought to be as put foreword by the uninitiated revisionist." pg. ix


b. "Sinking Creek", "Sinking Springs", and "Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church"


    "This early church was established by Copeland, Rankin from PA, . . ." pg. 579



[24]

Greene County, Tennessee, Court records, 1783-1908


"County Court minutes (Greene County, Tenn.), 1783-1908; general index, 1856-1947",


published "Nashville, Tennessee : Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1973" . . .


image files are available online at  https://www.familysearch.org


Search > Catalog > "United States, Tennessee, Greene" > "Court Records (18)" >


"County Court minutes (Greene County, Tenn.), 1783-1908; general index 1856-1947"


"Minutes 1783-1799, 1805-1809 (1800-1804 missing)" film "944390" DGS "7831789"


a. (November 1796) "Minutes of November Session 1796"


a.1. "Minutes of November Session 1796" starts on pg.464 (image 238 of 748) and the


    "John W. Bowens vs Step Tunnel" case with "Wm McAmish" "Jas McAmish" jurors


    is recorded on pg.469 (7831789 image 240 of 738) (clearly McAmish not McAninch)


a.2. identified correctly as McAmish in Greene County, Tennessee, minutes of the Court


    of Common Pleas, 1783-1795 (sic, 1795) by Goldene Fillers Burgner, 1982, pg.250,


    published Easley, South Carolina, Southern Historical Press, ISBN 0893082783


b. (1797-1799) "Minutes, County Court" "Feb. 1797-1799"


b.1. "Minutes, County Court" "Feb. 1797-1799" (starts on 7831789 image 248 of 748)


    "1552" (in left margin) "One other from Jonathan Williams to Daniel McAninch . . ."


    on pg.46 (pg.46 is on 7831789 image 272 of 748)


b.2. why was the date written "1797" instead of "1796"? possibly just a clerical error?


b.3. Daniel was mis-identified as ". . . Jonathan Williams to Daniel McAmish . . ." in


    Greene County, Tennessee, Minutes of the Court of Common Pleas, 1797-1807 by


    Sandra Kelton Houston, 1981, pg.28, Southern Historical Press, ISBN 0893082015














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Notes and Sources: Daniel McAninch and William McAninch 1796-1797


McAninch Family History Newsletter, v.XXXII (32) n.2  / Nov. 2024  /  p.2024-29




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