Alfred Briggs Nix Collection, 1780-1881 and undated

The Alfred Briggs Nix Collection, held by the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University, consists of various documents, primarily from Sullivan and Washington Counties in Tennessee, including original deeds, copies of deeds, information extracted from deeds and land grants (usually descriptions of property conveyed), entries, copies of North Carolina land grants, a Tennessee land grant, surveys, promissory notes, and miscellaneous documents.

The current digital collection contains PDF file surrogates created in 2023 of the complete content of the collection.

The Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University provides access to the materials on this website for the purposes of research and education, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. [identification of item], [identification of collection], Archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University). Any commercial uses of the materials or any uses that exceed the limits of fair use and other relevant statutory exceptions require the permission of the Archives of Appalachia and the copyright holder(s). It is the user's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials.

Compressed (low resolution) files are available on this website.  Requests for accessing uncompressed (high resolution) versions of this material can be sent to the Archives of Appalachia.