By: Work Projects Administration, Pub. 1941, Reprinted 2016, 473 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-454-9.White county was created in 1806 from Smith county. In these abstracts, one will find local office holders being appointed, the levying and expenditure of local taxes, selecting & summoning of juries, licenses being granted to operators of taverns, as well as deeds & bills of sale being acknowledge by the grantor. The Court also oversaw a wide range of matters involving estates, including probate of will, settlements of estates, and appraisement, as well as matters dealing with bastardy, and many other valuable bits of information.