Person:William Finley (44)

William Finley in Blount, Jefferson and Greene Counties of Tennessee

• Will E. Parham Papers http://lib-operations.sonoma.edu/fin/aaa-0414.html
• William Finley: Tentative Chronology: 1764 to 1819 http://lib-operations.sonoma.edu/fin/aaa-0421.html

Matthew Samples Tennessee Land Record

Land Records, Territory South of French Broad-Land Grants, Transcribed by David Templin

• No.117

JOHN HAMERSLY-253 ¼ acres-on a branch of Nile Mile Creek, waters of Tennessee River-CC JOHN WALLACE and WM. FINLEY Granted April 27, 1807 Assigned to MATTHEW SAMPLES consideration $600 December 29, 1807 Witnesses JONATHAN EPPS and JOHN M. CRAWFORD

1.   Genealogy Trails.

   Land Records, Territory South of French Broad-Land Grants, Transcribed by David Templin
   http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/sevier/fblgPg1.html

2.   Will E. Parham. Will E. Parham Papers. (McClung Collection, Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville, TN).

   Will E. Parham papers are kept at the Blount County Library Reference Section. Parham was a professional genealogist in the late 1800s and early 1900s. There is a card file by last name. Loose leaf by family name. There are also family files from other people who have added information. Notes on William Finley m. Jean Kennedy and daughter Mary 'Polly' Finley m. Davy Crockett. Will E. Parham papers also mention William Finley's daughter Ann married John Caldwell who was a brother to the Mary Caldwell who married John Finley. John Finley, son of William, and brother of this Ann, names nephew John Caldwell as one of his executors. This would be a son of sister Ann and her husband, John Caldwell.

3.   http://lib-operations.sonoma.edu/. Sanoma State University Library.
4.   Swann, Joe. The Old Path, Route of the Great Indian War Trail vanishing quickly in East Tennessee. (Jefferson County, Tennessee, Historical Society).