While many petitions were submitted, not all resulted in a legislative act. Legislative acts were also passed without there being a petition submitted. A majority of the original petitions were returned to the petitioner, although the Tennessee General Assembly did retain many of the documents.
Read more about Tennessee Legislative Petitions.
The indexes have been arranged by subject and by the names that appear on the petition text itself. It does not include the hundreds of names that signed the petitions.
Please see the page Ordering Records for instructions on ordering a copy of a record listed in the indexes.
Petition 01 : 1799 - 1812
Petition 02 : 1813 - 1817
Petition 03 : 1819 - 1820
Petition 04 : 1821
Petition 05 : 1822 - 1823
Petition 06 : 1824 - 1825
Petition 07 : 1826 - 1827
Petition 08 : 1829
Petition 09 : 1831
Petition 10 : 1832 - 1833
Petition 11 : 1834 - 1836
Petition 12 : 1837 - 1839
Petition 13 : 1840 - 1842
Petition 14 : 1843
Petition 15 : 1844 - 1846
Petition 16 : 1847 - 1848
Petition 17 : 1849 - 1850
Petition 18 : 1851 - 1865
Indexes compiled by Del Dorr, Library Assistant IV
