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Consolidated Report of County Superintendents Nashville Sub District for November 1866. as called for by Circular No. 4. [[13 Columned Table]] | County | Superintendent | No. Rations | Quantity issued Clothing | Quantity issued Medicine | Numbers Contracts | Numbers Persons | Fines and Forfeitures collected | No Orphans and Minors apprenticed | Numbers Schools | Numbers Scholars | Numbers Teachers | Remarks of Superintendents. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bedford | Ramsey Joseph | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | Cheatham | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Cannon | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Coffee | Smith Joel B. | | | | | | | | x | 75 | 1 | "The freedmen in this county continue industriously engaged in their various avocations of business. Those that are industriously secure good wages." | | Dickson | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Davidson | Lawrence John | | | | | | | | | | | "On the whole I must report the Freedmen in this county doing well. Our schools in Nashville and Edgefield are prospering beyond comparison I think with any in the south | | DeKalb | Goodwin W. H. | | | | 2 | 2 | | | 2 | 46 | 2 | Much more favorable feeling on the part of the citizens toward the freedmen. | | Franklin | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Fentress | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Giles | Judd Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | 3 | 120 | 4 | In Giles matters are not in as good condition as in Williamson, Crops have not been good consequently the people are discouraged and the whites are more disposed to take advantage of the blacks. | | Grundy | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Humphries | Gossett A. | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | Hickman | Puckett J N | | | | | | | | | | | No Report recevied | | Jackson | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lewis | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lawrence | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lincoln | Bearden Alfred | | | | | | | | | | | "There has been many cases of litigation between Freed persons and their employers on final settlement of contracts" | | Montgomery | Cobb Joshua | None | None | None | None | None | None None | None | 2 | 360 | 4 | "The state of feeling on the part of citizens toward freedmen in a general way favorable" | | Maury | Gregory J.H. | None | None | None | None | None | None None | | | | | There has been a great number of complaints made at this office by freedmen who have been made contracts for this year. that their employers are endeavoring to swindle them out of their share of the crop | | Marshall | West Moses C. | None | None | None | None | None | None None | 2 | | | | "The freedmen here generally perform their contracts yet there has been some complaints" | | Macon | Rodgers Wm. W | | | | | | | | | | | The Col'd people are in a perfect state of destitution, the lands that their houses sit on are owned by rebels and they the rebels are confiscating the houses. would most respectfully refer you to my petition of to day | | Overton | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Perry | Taylor Jesse | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | Putnam | Hunter B. D. | | | | | | | | | | | I thought that the freedmen's Bureau had ceased to exist under the late laws, The people here totally disregard its regulations. Neither whites nor col'd call on the Agent any more" | | Robertson | Holman D. D. | None | None | None | None | | | | X | 150 | 1 | "Much interest is manifested upon the part of the whites to contract with the col'd people for the com'g year" | | Rutherford | Nelson J. K. | | | | | | | | 1 | 225 | 3 | Many employers show a disposition to bear very heavily upon their laborers, taking advantage of their ignorance in every possible way. | | Smith | Goodwin W. H. | | | | | | | | | | | See DeKalb Co. | | Stewart | Stewart Geo. W. | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | Sumner | Rodgers Wm. W. | | | | | | | | | | | See Macon County | | Wayne | Fowler J. L. | None | None | None | | | | None | None | None | None | "Feeling toward freedmen by citizens reasonably kind at this time. | | Williamson | Judd Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | 2 | 100 | 3 | "State of feeling in Williamson Co good. The people have secured good crops and are feeling hopeful. The negroes get along well there." | | Warren | Lowry Wm | | | | | | | | | | | The parties are now settling up according to contracts. I have some difficulties in their settlements but none serious. | | White | Simpson Rev Rich | | | | | | | | | | | The freedmen in White county are tolerable quiet. I hear of no disturbance in any way no outrages are being perpetrated and the employers are generally settling up with the freedmen in peace and quiet" | | Wilson | Goodwin W. H | | | | | | | | | | | See DeKalb county | | | Total | | | | 2 | 2 | | | 2 | 12 | 8 | | Mich'l Walsh Captain V.R.C. and Chief Superintendent Nashville Sub Dist Bureau R.F. and A. Lands
